Often, when I’m working with my clients, they request that I upload a disk image for them that they will use in Azure. I usually discourage this practice, because it makes standing up VMs more challenging, and very quickly, the uploaded image will be out of date. A preferred deployment method is to use the standard … [Read more…]
What’s your current backup solution? What would happen if your datacenter burned down this weekend? What would happen if a junior administrator accidentally deletes a production SQL database or server? I’ve been asked to do a webinar describing the features that Microsoft Azure provides for backup and recovery, so I started thinking about the state … [Read more…]
Photo by M. Rehemtulla for QUOI Media Group – Some rights reserved It’s Thanksgiving weekend in Canada, and my wife has taken the kids to the Rockton World’s Fair. The kids love seeing the animals, and it’s become a bit of a tradition. This has left me with the opportunity to catch up on the … [Read more…]