AWS, Azure and GCP are competing hard for enterprise databases. This article explains why mission-critical RDBMS workloads are the prize and what that means for DBAs.
The Battle For Your Databases
Tag: Cloud
The cloud is built on standardisation, abstraction, and scale. It works because most workloads can be made to look the same.
Databases are the exception. Their performance, behaviour, and constraints are deeply tied to their underlying architecture – and those differences don’t disappear just because the infrastructure moved.
The Public Cloud: The Hotel For Your Applications
The public cloud is like a hotel – flexible and convenient but shared infrastructure. This article explains what that model really means for enterprise databases.
Databases Now Live In The Cloud
Gartner predicted 75% of databases in the cloud by 2022. The industry debate focused on migration – but not on the question that mattered most: what happens to performance?
Don’t Call It A Comeback
flashdba returns from retirement to ask the question nobody in the cloud conversation was asking: when 75% of databases move to the cloud, what actually happens to performance?
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