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Webinar: Best Practices for running SQL Server on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute

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Best Practices for running SQL Server on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)

Webinar: Best Practices for running SQL Server on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)

Running SQL Server in the cloud doesn’t have to be complicated or anxiety-inducing. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) like AWS, have optimized their infrastructure to run SQL Server with price, performance and availability as key requirements. This webinar covers how AWS in partnership with SIOS, addresses those three requirements in their industry leading IaaS offering, EC2.

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Webinar: Why Clustering for SQL Server High Availability?

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Why Clustering for SQL Server High Availability

Webinar: Why Clustering for SQL Server High Availability?

Webinar: Why Clustering for SQL Server High Availability?

When it comes to SQL Server high availability (HA), SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) has been the standard since 1998 with the release of SQL Server 7. Dave Bermingham, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter MVP and former Cluster MVP, reviews what clusters are, why you should use them for high availability, discusses SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance concepts and why it is an important part of your Mission Critical SQL Server deployment whether you run on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid cloud configuration.

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Webinar: Failover Clustering in the Cloud – Understanding Your Options

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Failover Clustering in the Cloud – Understanding Your Options

Webinar: Failover Clustering in the Cloud – Understanding Your Options

Windows Server 2016 introduced Storage Spaces Direct, to allow for shared storage in Azure that could help with building and configuring a Windows cluster in the cloud. While this sounded like a killer feature (and it can be with proper infrastructure) it runs into challenges in cloud environments with limited bandwidth available for both storage and data traffic.

In this webinar, you will learn about the configuration of clusters in the cloud, some real-world examples of problems, and alternatives for maintaining a shared storage infrastructure within Azure.

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Webinar: Best Practices for Migrating SQL Server 2008 to Azure

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Best Practices for Migrating SQL Server 2008 to Azure

Webinar: Best Practices for Migrating SQL Server 2008 to Azure

Microsoft announced that Extended Security Updates will be available for free in Azure for 2008 and 2008 R2 versions of SQL Server and Windows Server to help secure your workloads for three more years after the end of support deadline. That means if you are running SQL 2008 or 2008 R2 on-premises today and won’t have time to upgrade before the regular end of life of SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 on July 9th 2019, your best course of action to keep these systems secure would be to migrate those workloads into Azure. Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter MVP David Bermingham discusses best practices for moving standalone and clustered SQL Server 2008 instances into Azure to take advantage of these extended security updates.

See our SQL Server 2008 End of Support solution to help you maintain security and compliance for your SQL Server environments.

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Webinar: The Cloud Won’t Fix That – A panel discussion

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The Cloud Wont Fix That – A panel discussion

Webinar: The Cloud Won’t Fix That – A panel discussion

The journey to the cloud is new and exciting, but can also be daunting and unpredictable. What? Won’t cloud solve all my problems? The short answer is no. There are still many things YOU will need to do. There are many different issues you will need you to manage when you move to the cloud. A panel of experts discusses best practices within enterprise application migrations to the cloud.

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