Azure
Omaha Azure User Group Presentation 2019.10.20
David Klee is proud to present to Omaha’s Microsoft Azure Users Group in a new session called “Everything you Need to Know about SQL Server in Azure“.
Session Details: Are you interested in moving your SQL Server workloads to the Azure public cloud? Where do you start? Do you pick Azure SQL Database, SQL Managed Instance, or do you need the full versatility (and overhead) of SQL Server in an Azure IaaS VM? How do you get your data there? How do you maintain performance and availability? How can you monitor it? All of these questions and more will be addressed in this interactive session. Bring your questions and let’s explore Azure SQL Server offerings together!
RSVP for this meeting at the user group Meetup site. We look forward to seeing you there!
P21 WWUG Connect Conference 2019
Heraflux is proud to sponsor and present at this year’s P21 WWUG Connect conference in New Orleans, LA, on September 9th and 10th. For more information, p21p21.
SQL Saturday Atlanta Precon May 17
I am very proud to announce that I have been selected to present an exciting preconference training session at this year’s SQL Saturday Atlanta on May 17th, 2019, called “Level Up Your Data Platform Cloud Infrastructure“. If you are in the cloud or even remotely considering it, I urge you to attend this session!
We also have a discount code for those interested. It’s PAPERJAM, and enter it at the EventBrite checkout page.
Designed to help people that are starting to consider cloud for their data platforms ramp up quickly on all of the items that they need to hit the ground running and make the best choices while selecting and using the platform.
Session Abstract: While your on-premises infrastructure is likely maintained by another team, in the cloud this responsibility falls on you. Whether your organization is just planning for the cloud, all-in, or leveraging a hybrid architecture, this course is designed to ramp you up on maximizing your investment in the cloud components that you utilize.
Infrastructure skills are essential when managing your environment in the cloud. Knowledge is power; key items such as firewalls and connectivity, storage presentation and performance, baselining, and even platform selection are all necessary areas of concern. Capacity management is also crucial, as the old ways of “throwing hardware” at a performance problem will translate into a larger bill each month.
Attend this session to learn how to efficiently manage cloud resources, set yourself apart from your peers, improve the performance of your mission-critical workloads, and potentially save your employer money!
Live360 Conference 2018
Heraflux is extremely proud to announce our involvement in this year’s SQL Server Live conference, part of the Live360 conference, in Orlando Florida from December 2 – 7.
David Klee is presenting a number of SQL Server, infrastructure, and virtualization-themed sessions. Stay tuned for more details!
CosmosDB Presentation Aug 2018 - Chicago SQL Server Users Group
Bob Pusateri is presenting this Thursday, August 9th, for the Chicago SQL Server Users Group in a new presentation called “Select Stars: A SQL Server DBA’s Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB“. This meeting starts at 5:30pm at the Microsoft Technology Center in the Aon Center in downtown Chicago at 200 East Randolph Drive, Chicago IL.
Azure Cosmos DB has quickly become a buzzword in database circles over the past year, but what exactly is it, and why does it matter? This session will cover the basics of Azure Cosmos DB, how it works, and what it can do for your organization. You will learn how it differs from SQL Server and Azure SQL Database, what its strengths are, and how to leverage them. We will also discuss Azure Cosmos DB’s partitioning, distribution, and consistency methods to gain an understanding of how they contribute to its unprecedented scalability. Finally we will demonstrate how to provision, connect to, and query Azure Cosmos DB. If you’re wondering what Azure Cosmos DB is and why you should care, attend this session and learn why Azure Cosmos DB is an out-of-this-world tool you’ll want in your data toolbox!
You must RSVP by 5PM Tuesday (today!) to attend the meeting due to building security. RSVP here to go see this fantastic presentation!
SQL Saturday 2018 Iowa City Precon
David Klee is proud to announce that he will be delivering a new preconference training the Friday before the SQL Saturday in Iowa City, June 22nd, called “SQL Server Infrastructure in the Cloud“.
If you consider that the on-premises infrastructure underneath your SQL Servers is someone else’s responsibility, think again when your systems are in the cloud. Infrastructure skills are essential when planning a cloud migration and managing the environment once the data is in the cloud. Knowledge is power, and key items such as firewalls and connectivity, storage performance, baselining, and even the differences between infrastructure and applications as a service are all necessary areas of concern. Capacity management is also crucial, as the old ways of “throwing hardware” at a performance problem have evolved into a larger bill for cloud resources at the end of each month, and effective handling of the allocated resources will set you apart from the rest. Come learn more about all the areas you need to master as your organization embraces the cloud!
RSVP today at SQLSaturday.com!
SQL Saturday Iowa City Precon June 22
We are extremely proud to announce that David Klee has been selected to present an all-new preconference training session on Friday, June 22, ahead of the SQL Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa. This all-day training class, entitled “Level Up Your Cloud Infrastructure Skills“, is designed to help you, the SQL Server professional, ramp up your knowledge so you know how to better manage workloads in the cloud.
Think infrastructure in the cloud is still just for sysadmins? Think again! As your organization moves into the cloud, infrastructure skills are more important than ever for DBAs to master. Expert knowledge of cloud-related infrastructure will help you maintain performance and availability for databases in the cloud. For example, know what an IOP is? How many does your database consume during a given day? Properly sizing a cloud database depends on your knowledge of this metric. Failure to properly configure storage performance at the time of deployment will slow down your SQL Server considerably. Come learn many of the key cloud infrastructure points that you should master as the DBA role continues to evolve in this all-day boot camp on ramping up your knowledge on cloud management!
David Klee announced as speaker for PASS Summit 2017
Heraflux is proud to announce that David Klee has been selected as a speaker for this year’s PASS Summit conference, to be held in Seattle Washington from October 31 to November 3rd.
The specific sessions that will be presented are not announced, but we are excited and cannot wait until we can share more details. Stay tunes for more details here and at the PASS Summit 2017 site!
Also, stay in town until at least Saturday morning, as we are planning an event for Friday evening after the conference wraps up.
More details to be announced here as soon as they are made public!
In case you are not familiar with the PASS Summit, it’s the best Microsoft-ecosystem data-themed conference in the world. More details from last year’s Summit are found here.
Announcing SQL Saturday Chicago Precon Training Session
Heraflux is proud to announce that we are teaching a preconference training session at this year’s upcoming SQL Saturday in Chicago. The training class is entitled “The Complete Primer to SQL Server Infrastructure and Cloud” and is to be held on Friday, March 10th, at the DeVry University Campus in Addison, IL. This course has been updated to include key concepts about SQL Server in the cloud, including the similarities, differences, and performance characteristics.
Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert David Klee leads this full-day introduction to getting the most out of the infrastructure underneath your SQL Server environment, whether on-premises or in the cloud. The focus of the course is to help those new to the enterprise server infrastructure concepts become familiar with function and purpose of each layer of the architecture around their databases, and how this knowledge can benefit them as data professionals. Participants will gain exposure to all layers of infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud underneath SQL Server, from storage all the way through to the SQL Server instance and database, and will learn how to review and engineer the entire stack with a strong emphasis on SQL Server performance.
Registration is now open here, and seats are limited! Register today!