Recently, I was approached by a small but growing technology company with an urgent problem: Microsoft’s announcement regarding the retirement of Azure Database for MariaDB had caught them completely ...

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database service that supports transactional processing and analytics. With a 30-plus year history, SQL Server has been a mainstay at many organizations. Now, ...

Due to my background working with other major database platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, I’ve long been an advocate for the SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). This powerful and easy ...

As an IT professional working for a small to mid-sized organization you are not only in charge of the servers, desktops, firewalls, routers, switches and mobile devices… you’re the chief, cook and ...

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The moment your organization begins planning for a cloud migration, risk and security considerations should be at the forefront. A proper cloud migration strategy starts with an assessment of the ...

A lot of companies are thinking about data migration. Either it’s something they know they have to do, something they’re actively working on or something they’ve already tried with limited success.

Enterprise cloud migration strategies are evolving beyond speed and cost to prioritize data sovereignty, environmental sustainability, and zero‑downtime resilience. New approaches integrate workload ...