One thing I wanted to touch on for a while now is the Azure SQL PaaS offerings. If you have SQL on premise then at present you manage the server, the database, and the application, but Microsoft want to be helpful and so they have offered to take on the management of the server and […]
Costing for Cloud? Don’t forget SQL! Part 3 Read More »
So, moving from a on premise highly consolidated hypervisor based SQL environment to cloud and using the on prem SQL licensing doesn’t cost in – but don’t Microsoft offer any concessions to encourage the move to Azure? And what about using the Azure pay as you go licensing – is that any cheaper? A little
Costing for Cloud? Don’t forget SQL! Part 2 Read More »
If you are considering moving to cloud there are a whole load of different “costs” that you need to consider and build into your business case… There’s the rental costs of the new environment, including things like: Connectivity Costs Virtual Machine Costs Cloud Storage Costs Monitoring Costs and so on… Then there’s the cost of
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This is a blog post my student Koral De Grussa wrote in November 2017 that I never got around to posting until now. So here is it. (Andrew Horler) What is “rightsizing”? Right sizing is about using the correct amount of resources and not over allocating them or under allocating them. Why is it important?
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If you are working on a MPLS network using MPBGP and are struggling to understand what route distinguishers and route targets are and how they are used with route target imports and exports and why you would use a import or export map with a route target import / export then read on.
Understanding Route Targets, Route Distinguishers and Route Leaking for MPLS and MPBGP Read More »