SQLBits 2015
To The Cloud, Infinity, & Beyond: Top 10 Lessons Learned
Microsof IT's Cloud strategy involves migrating hundreds of applications to Azure. The scale on which it is being done may be unprecedented. Lessons Learned are numerous. This session exposes the most important—& painful—ones.
As part of the
team leading the migration effort from Microsoft IT's on-prem servers to The
Cloud, we've collected a number of best practices that can save your
organization weeks or months of effort & untold dollars in development
& implementation costs. Those who
think the only tool required to move SQL instances from the datacenter to IaaS
VMs is a forklift have a hard lesson to learn.
In fact, it's a bit challenging than that. This session will introduce the Top 10
Lessons Learned in the MSIT migration effort & provide actionable guidance
that customers can begin using immediately.
Session Goal 1:
Understand that forklifting applications to the Cloud has unexpected
challenges.
Session Goal 2:
Understand that many fundamental best practices which have served us well
on-prem remain important—& now we have new nuances to master.
Session Goal 3:
Understand the value of leveraging MSIT's lessons learned has the potential to
save an organization weeks or months of time & hundreds of thousands,
perhaps millions of dollars.
Additional Notes:
This is an exciting topic the work for which I'm intimately involved. I'm extremely enthusiastic about sharing the
fruits of our efforts with the Community.