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.
Tag: public cloud
The Battle For Your Databases
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 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?



