One of the things that was really painful in the early days of Azure, especially for those of us who are consultants with many customers, was the process of switching tenants and logged in sessions. To Microsoft’s credit, they have made this process much better, it’s a single click to switch between logins and/or subscriptions. […]
Author: jdanton1
A Weird Networking Problem with Azure SQL Database (and Fios)
Note: This is my first blog post in a while. You too may have been stressed by recent events in world. I’m also doing a large content project I’ll hope you get to enjoy in the near future too. This post actually ties into working from home. So anyway, one of our customers recently […]
Storage Field Day 19 MinIO #SFD19
In January I had the chance to attend Storage Field Day 19 in Santa Clara, where we got to meet with a wide variety of startups and large enterprise storage companies. One of the more interesting companies we meet with was MinIO which has a really interesting and compelling object-based storage product. I’ve talked about […]
Storage Field Day 19–Western Digital #SFD19
As I mentioned in my post last week I recently had the opportunity to attend Storage Field Day 19, where I got to meet with a wide variety of storage software and hardware companies in Silicon Valley. One of the more interesting companies we met with was a longtime player in storage—Western Digital. (Disclosure—I own […]
Storage Field Day 19–Current State of the Storage Industry #SFD19
Last week I got to spend some time meeting with numerous storage companies in Silicon Valley. I along with another dozen or so delegates met with companies large and small, including Western Digital, Dell EMC, NetApp, and startups like MinIO. I’ll be writing posts in coming weeks to talk about some of the interesting technology […]
My SQL Saturday Chicago Precon: Leveling Up Your Azure Skills
I’m doing another precon at SQL Saturday Chicago on March 20th, 2020. The event is at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL. This time we’re going to dive a little bit deeper into Azure. While last years precon focused on basic infrastructure skills in Azure, this time we’re going to focus a little deeper into the […]
Let’s Talk About Ransomware (Again)
I’ve posted about ransomware a few times before. At DCAC, we’ve worked with a few customers who’ve fortunately been able to help them recover from their attacks. But ransomware attacks are trending upward, as seen below–there’s a ransomware attacker that has pulled in $10 million dollars this year (this year being so far in 2020. […]
PowerShell for Parsing DiskSpd Results to CSV
We have a customer who is moving platforms, and as part of this, I’ve been tasked with testing a lot of various storage configurations. This means lots of utilization of DiskSpd, which is a disk performance benchmarking tool from Microsoft. We could argue about the value of synthetic disk benchmarks, but they are good for […]
Understanding Your Options for Running SQL Server on Azure
I was at Microsoft Ignite last week, and I spent the better of part of 3 days working in the “SQL Server” booth. I put SQL Server in quotes, because in 2019 that term is stretched. Our booth covered SQL Server 2019, Arc (which you should read about because it’s really cool, but is the […]
Colorado DOT Post Mortem–Don’t Do Stupid #$%^
A good policy in your technology career, or life in general, is to, to quote a former president, “don’t do stupid shit”. If we look historically at major IT outages or data breaches, there’s always some universal tenants–some piece of critical infrastructure was left completely unsecured, or someone put the private keys on Github. In […]