- Calculating Application Availability in the Cloud
When deploying business critical applications in the cloud you want to make sure they are highly available. The good news is that if you plan properly, you can achieve 99.99% (4-nines) of availability … - Step-by-Step: iSCSI Target Server Cluster in Azure
I recently helped someone build an iSCSI target server cluster in Azure and realized that I never wrote a step-by-step guide for that particular configuration. So to remedy that, here are the step-by- … - Achieving application consistent recovery points of SQL Server 2008 R2 with Azure Site Recovery in Azure
If you want to use ASR to replicate SQL Server 2008 R2 standalone or clustered instances, you will need to update the SQL Writer to 2012 or later. You can use SQL express version as it is a free down … - Major Cloud Outage impacts Google Compute Engine – Were you prepared?
Google first reported an “Issue” on Jun 2, 2019 at 12:25 PDT. As is now common in any type of disaster, reports of this outage first appeared on social media. It seems now the most reliable place to g … - New Azure “SQL Server settings” blade in the Azure Portal
I just noticed today that there is a new blade in the Azure portal when creating a new SQL Server virtual machine. I’ve been looking for an announcement regarding this new Azure portal experience, but …