What To Do With Out-of-Date SQL Servers
As we reach the end of the extended support phase for Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 and SQL Servers 2008/2008 R2 (July 8, 2019, for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 and January 14, 2020, for Windows Server 2008/2008), we will essentially be ...
Server Migration Planning
If you need to upgrade your Windows server, you need to keep in mind it is not a simple process, and it requires thorough server migration planning. There are many things to consider and steps to follow for the migration ...
4 Database Management Musts For 2019
2018 was a year full of valuable lessons for everyone involvedin database management. Businesses learned even more about cybersecurity, privacy, and innovation. In 2019, companies should use all the information they have discovered and take action towards improvements, starting with ...
End Of Support preparation for SQL Server & Windows Server 2008
End of support is coming for two commonly deployed server products: SQL Server and Windows Server 2008. Now is the perfect time to upgrade, modernize, and transform to current versions of SQL Server and Windows Server for more protection, better ...
What to Do After a Data Breach?
Terms that were unheard of a few years ago, such as data breach, cybersecurity, and infosec, are now common currency. Unfortunately, incidents in which sensitive and confidential data has been accessed are brecoming all too common. There is no formula ...
Top 5 Cloud Service Providers For Businesses in 2018
Cloud Service Providers offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. Simply put, cloud computing is the delivery of servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, intelligence and more over the Internet. As companies typically pay only for the services ...
Multi-Factor Authentication is Important for Your Business
Multi-factor authentication is a method to grant access to users who successfully provide at least two different pieces of evidence to an authentication mechanism. Cybersecurity As it’s widely known, cyber attacks have soared dramatically during the past few years. Hackers ...
Making Alexa Your Shopping Assistant During the Holiday Season
Alexa, Amazon's voice-controlled assistant, will be offering exclusive deals to its Prime members on Cyber Monday. Just by asking "Alexa, what are your deals?", the U.S. e-commerce giant announced that the voice assistant would respond with secret tips and deals. ...
3 Issues to Anticipate With High Volume Demand
High Volume Demand occurs at any given moment, your website can get a huge wave of traffic and customers. If you have a robust data architecture in place, it will guarantee that that moment will be a cause for a ...
What Does SQL Server AlwaysOn Mean?
AlwaysOn is an integrated high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solution that provides redundancy within a SQL Server data center. It allows fast application failover during both scheduled and unplanned downtime. AlwaysOn provides failover cluster instances, multiple secondary, active secondary, ...
