1. Microsoft Azure for SQL Server Professionals
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Clients throughout California and US
Team of 50
Practice Areas
Data Platform (DW, DM, Reporting, Master Data)
Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
Big Data and Data Science
Custom Apps (SW, Web, Mobile)
Cloud (Azure/AWS)
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5. Microsoft Azure for SQL Server Professionals
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6. Agenda Azure Cloud EcoSystem VM Disks Azure SQL DB & Elastic Pools
Other Data Storage Options

9. Cloud Services Models

10. Azure EcoSystem
demo

11. Express Route

12. Express Route

13. Express Route Ingress traffic Egress traffic Cross region traffic
Throughput

14. SQL PaaS offerings

15. Azure SQL DB PaaS offering
No concerns on VHDs, managed disk, throughput, etc.
Performance measure in DTUs
Requires authentication review
Partial compatibility with on-prem SQL
No inter-database dependencies
No file management

16. Azure SQL DB Elastic Pools
Share DTUs among multiple databases Great for saving on costs Does not change functionality Slow when multiple DBs demand peak workload

17. Azure SQL DB and Elastic DB
demo

18. Virtual Machines and VHDs
Lift and Shift approach Never performs like on premises! Requires files and filegroups strategy Optimized Virtual Machines
General Purpose
Compute
Memory
Storage
GPU
High Performance

19. VM Disks Traditional Approach Current Approach VHD in blob container
60 MB/s limit per blob
Blob container limits
Current Approach
Managed Disks
200 MB/s limit per disk

20. Backup and Restore
Redundancy is native Backup to other disks Backup to Blob Storage

21. Virtual Machines and Backups
demo

22. File-Snapshot Backup

23. Azure Data Warehouse and NoSQL options

24. No SQL Options
demo

25. Questions

26. Why are you still taking backups?
Links (cont.):
File-snapshot backup
Data platform blog
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