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The Biggest Gap In The Clouds? High Performance RDBMS

A hurricane representing the performance storm facing high-performance RDBMS workloads that cloud infrastructure was not designed to handle

Hyperscalers have solved cloud infrastructure for most workloads. High-performance RDBMS remains the exception – the gap between cloud promises and database reality is still real.

flashdba Blog, Cloud, Databases, Storage Leave a comment December 13, 2021April 3, 2026 3 Minutes

The Battle For Your Databases

Hyperscalers competing for enterprise database workloads – the battle between AWS, Azure and Google Cloud for mission-critical systems of record

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.

flashdba Blog, Cloud, Databases 1 Comment January 26, 2021April 3, 2026 3 Minutes

The Public Cloud: The Hotel For Your Applications

A hotel sign illustrating the public cloud as shared infrastructure – elastic capacity available on demand but without the control of dedicated environments

The public cloud is like a hotel – flexible and convenient but shared infrastructure. This article explains what that model really means for enterprise databases.

flashdba Blog, Cloud, Databases, Storage Leave a comment October 22, 2020April 3, 2026 4 Minutes

Databases Now Live In The Cloud

Enterprise databases migrating to public cloud platforms – examining the Gartner forecast that cloud becomes the default database destination

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?

flashdba Blog, Cloud, Databases Leave a comment September 22, 2020April 3, 2026 4 Minutes

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?

flashdba Blog, Cloud, Databases, Storage 3 Comments September 18, 2020April 3, 2026 2 Minutes
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