Almost all database workloads are now (or eventually will be) virtualized. High availability (HA) clusters using virtual servers provide the application protection needed to satisfy even the most ...

Data storage titan EMC enhanced its already-quite-profitable relationship with another IT giant, Microsoft, March 5 with the launch of new software and services designed to augment the performance ...

Denny's SQL Secrets Finding Storage Performance Problems in SQL Server The first step is to understand the nature of performance monitoring software. By Denny Cherry 09/08/2014 ...

For smaller projects, SQL databases can offer something close to a plug-and-play storage environment. But there are weaknesses, and for some teams these are big problems.

Nodes can run as SQL compute nodes, SQL storage nodes or HDFS data nodes. In the HDFS case, SQL Server and Apache Spark run co-located, in the same container. All of this interoperability is ...

DocAve 5.3 out in Beta The DocAve Storage Optimization Suite Beta comes as part of the beta release for DocAve 5.3. In addition, v5.3 includes enhancements to the DocAve Migrator module.

In December, Microsoft capped the database size cost at $499.95 for the maximum 150 GB of storage possible under the SQL Azure Business Edition. That max cost is now listed by Martin at $225.99.

As AWS CEO Andy Jassy noted in his keynote, the company’s customers tend to store much of their data in its S3 storage service, despite the fact that AWS also offers plenty of database and data ...

Meanwhile, users of Azure SQL’s P11 and P15 Premium databases will now find that they have more storage to work with. When P15 was announced as generally available last summer, it included up to ...