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Michael Otey is president of TECA, a technical content production, consulting and software development company in Portland, Ore. Michael is a former SQL Server MVP and was Senior Technical Director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro. He covers the topics of SQL Server, Windows Server, Hyper-V, Azure, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, VMware vSphere, PowerShell and .NET development. Michael has written hundreds of technical articles and performed numerous hardware and software product reviews. He does frequent webcasts, is a presenter at IT/Dev Connections and other technical conferences and has written several books on SQL Server and .NET development.
We all have heard about backing up our data to the cloud, but outlining all the benefits shows the true reason you should consider this approach.
Microsoft has released a new version of SharePoint and with it comes a couple new features to help you recover from an outage.
A closer look at how Amazon and Microsoft are attacking the hybrid cloud markets with each having a slightly different approach.
Using the cloud for backup and recovery is a choice many businesses utilize but make sure you understand the entire picture before moving to that recovery model.
A lot is changing in the world of Hybrid Cloud and IBM is making a big play to win the segment by purchasing Red Hat.
At this year’s VMworld Europe 2018 in Barcelona VMware made a number of announcements about the new enhancements to their End User Computing and VMware Cloud on AWS solutions. To get more detailed information on these announcements I spoke with Renu Upadhyay, Sr. Director, Product Marketing for End-User Computing at VMware and Ivan Oprencak, Director…
Looking to dive into containers as a possible recovery option but don’t know where to start? Mike Otey has you covered.
Today the hybrid cloud has become the new norm for many businesses and in this post, Mike shows you how many companies are using this technology.
There’s no doubt that building disaster recovery (DR) plans for your organization can be tough. There are an amazing number of factors that you have to consider, plan for, and purchase.
Azure SQL Data Sync is useful where data needs to be unidirectionally or bidirectionally synchronized across several Azure SQL Databases or SQL Server databases.