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With the hurricane bearing down on the east coast of the United States last week, making sure you have a good disaster recovery plan in place should have been a top priority for you. If you happen to be using Azure SQL DB, adding geo-replication is a simple and easy […]
Unless you are living under a rock, you have most likely heard of the hurricane that is bearing down on the east coast of the United States. Some areas have mandatory evacuation and I have seen reports of 80’ plus foot waves so this hurricane is not a joke. Another […]
As data professionals, we should always strive to keep our systems updated and patched to ensure proper security of our environments. Microsoft has moved away from releasing service packs to releasing just cumulative updates and the occasional hotfixes. These hotfixes may or may not be security related, but it behooves […]
The Cloud is a fun and exciting place to be. Exciting as it may be, even in the cloud, protection of databases and the data they contain has to be forefront in your mind. If it isn’t, that is just calling for a disaster to happen. Recently, I had the […]
Since joining Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting, I tend to travel about once a month. This isn’t a huge amount and is usually over a weekend (except for that opportunity to go to Australia that didn’t pan out). Since I work in the IT field, security is highly important to […]
Microsoft Azure offers up a lot of technologies that you can play around with. One thing that you might not know is that they also offer up a mobile presence to help manage your Azure resource. The application is available for download for your mobile devices from the app store […]
Recently, I got to work with a client on something interesting. We implemented transactional replication to send data to an Azure virtual machine. This was being done to perform some testing for a project. Given that the two machines were NOT within the same Active Directory domain, we wanted to […]