This white paper discusses the key concepts you need to configure a failover clustering environment to protect SQL Server in the cloud. Understand the options for configuring the cluster Quorum to meet your specific needs. Learn the benefits and key takeaways for providing high availability for SQL Server in a public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google) environment.

Get 10 Azure backup best practices direct from two Microsoft MVPs! As the public cloud started to gain mainstream acceptance, people quickly realized that they had to adopt two different ways of doing things. One set of best practices – and tools – applied to resources that were running on premises, and an entirely different set applied to cloud resources. Now the industry is starting to get back to the point where a common set of best practices can be applied regardless of where an organization’s IT resources physically reside.

The Microsoft Data Platform technology landscape is rapidly advancing, with increased release cadence and new capabilities regularly added. Businesses need to evolve their data platform strategies—migrating to Microsoft Azure is a key pillar of this strategy to deliver greater agility and operational efficiencies. However, transitioning from on-premises to a cloud or hybrid cloud data platform can be difficult without the right solutions to help discover, document, and validate migration activities. Whether moving to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS), SolarWinds® provides solutions designed to reduce the risks and time taken to perform cloud migrations to Microsoft Azure. This guide will provide a detailed look at the migration process and options and show you how SolarWinds® SQL Sentry and SolarWinds Database Mapper can assist with the upgrade and migration of SQL Server platforms to the Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Database performance can affect all tiers of your application, which can impact everything from your end-user experience all the way through your cloud costs. However, it can be challenging for administrators, developers, and SREs (Site Reliability Engineers) to understand what is happening within the database. Whether you are using MySQL, PostgreSQL, or cloud databases like Azure SQL Database or Amazon Aurora, understanding the performance of your data tier can be the key to improving application performance.