Is the SAN dying? The reason that I ask this question is that MSFT has unleashed technologies this year that point in that directionAlways ON Availability Groups shuns shared storageWindows 2012 has Storage Replication Technology that does not require a SANWindows 2012 has Hyper-V Replica Technology that does not require a SANPDW v2 continues to ...

Just a reminder that I will be speaking at the SF UG SQL Server User Group on Sep 12.  Here is a link with all of the details.  If you are in the area, It would be great to see you!

In my role as a Solutions Architect for Scalability Experts, I often get to present to customers about the work that we performed.  Unfortunately, this is often on short notice and I can't coordinate a trip to participate in a User Group Meeting.  Next week, I was able to coordinate my west coast trip to be able to present.  I am ...

Recently, I've been speaking with customers about upgrading SQL Server.  At times, some customers have a lot of Standard Edition  SQL Server 2005 / 2008 / 2008R2 in their organization and they want to see the features they get when upgrading to SQL Server 2012.  Last week, I sent out some tweets to the #sqlhelp hashtag to see if ...