Azure Data Share is in Public Preview!

Traditionally to be a good steward, sharing data or data sets with your partners and customers required leveraging FTP, emailing the data directly, or some other process that would be difficult to track. Azure Data Share allows you to manage and update your data and...

SQL Server 2008 And 2008 R2 End of Support

SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 brought some ground-breaking changes to the SQL Server platform. A switch from 32 to 64-bit technologies, Transparent Data Encryption, Backup and Table Compression, Master Data Services, Resource Governor and so much more led the 2008...

Azure Virtual Datacenter with a Greenfield Approach

Author: Carsten Due Planet Cloud Architect After meeting with many customers, it is apparent that the information following the introduction to Azure Virtual Datacenter (vDC) is somewhat overwhelming. As a consultative business, Planet Technologies spends a lot of...

You Already Own It!!

The industry inundates customers with this concept of Cloud Maturity and/or Cloud Readiness. But what does this really mean? Many “cloud enabled” companies believe being cloud mature means a customer is using their software package but in another compute...