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Consolidating SQL Server Environments
Posted on November 23, 2009
Consolidation is one of the most important topics nowadays in IT/Dev/Production environments. There are a lot of options available to sysadmins, DBAs and Developers to consolidate their environments with the key one being virtualization. For SQL Server consolidation also, there are several different options – multiple instances on a server or moving databases to a [...]
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Cloud Computing- The future of computing? – Part I
Posted on July 10, 2009
Cloud Computing – A buzz word that is frequently murmured everywhere by the IT folks or even by the non-IT people recently. This post describes what it really means to the beginners those who are interested or looking into cloud computing.
Cloud computing is a computing model where the infrastructure and the application (even the platform) [...]
Posted in Hyper-V, Technology, VMWare, Windows | 4 Comments »
SQL Server and Virtualization
Posted on April 24, 2009
SQL Magazine had an excellent article by Jeff James on virtualization in the SQL Server world…also read the Myths and mis-conceptions article from the same author. Here are the links:
Virtualizing SQL Server – here.
Virtualization Myths and Mis-conceptions – here.
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Oracle to enter virtualization arena?
Posted on April 1, 2009
Apparently, Oracle is in talks with Virtual Iron (one of the largest server virtualization vendors) and if the deal goes through, Oracle will be the latest one to enter the virtualization arena. You can read more on this in this eWeek article and at virtualization.com – here.
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Virtualization World friendships
Posted on February 27, 2009
Microsoft seems to be teaming up with Red Hat as well as Citrix. And VMWare seems to be teaming up with Intel.
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Virtualization Basics and the different types of Virtualization
Posted on February 12, 2009
A lot has been said and written about virtualization and a lot of companies are finding benefits adopting it in their IT infrastructure or the data centers that they might be hosting their applications with. At Decipher, we have been supporting our clients with their virtualization needs specifically with the VMWare and Hyper-V solutions and [...]
Posted in Hyper-V, Technology, VMWare, Virtual Server | 2 Comments »
VMWare’s Open Source Virtual Desktop Client
Posted on February 4, 2009
In an attempt to counter the open source virtualization offerings, VMWare has released their open source virtualization client. You can read more on this here. The VMWare view open client allows folks in a company to access their desktops from any device from anywhere since the hosting of the virtualized desktops is done either in-house [...]
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Some SQL Server Interview Questions
Posted on November 18, 2008
While helping a client of ours to come up with a list of questions for hiring their Senior SQL Server DBA, we presented these questions to them in order to help them picking up the right candidate. Please note that these were in line with their needs – depending upon your needs, the questions [...]
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More on SQL Server and Virtualization
Posted on November 17, 2008
We have covered virtualization quite a bit in our blog posts before. Saw this blog post at MSDN regarding the support for SQL Server in a virtual environment which is something that you should be familiar with if you are (or are planning to) running your SQL Server environments in a virtual environment. [...]
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SQL Server and Virtualization
Posted on October 8, 2008
We have been writing about virtualization quite a bit. Most of our clients have migrated their web and application tiers to vmware/Hyper-V (or are contemplating to) because of the benefits that it offers but as far as the database tier is concerned in a production environment, there hasn’t been a mass adoption of it [...]
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