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Certified Microsoft Container Technology

Briefing Note: DH2i Achieves Microsoft Platform Ready Status In a recent webinar Storage Switzerland and DH2i discussed leveraging container technology to create an MS-SQL framework that improves high availability and disaster tolerance with policy based SLA Management. While Docker grabs

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MeetTheCEO: Containerized CEO DH2i’s Don Boxley

DH2i’s Don Boxley joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges on this week’s MeetTheCEO. Boxley founded DH2i with OJ Ngo five years ago. The company is becoming a leader in the Windows Server Market and is now enabling Docker like container

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SlideShare: The Top 3 Reasons To Start Using Containers For Your MS-SQL Environment

Container technologies are capturing the industry headlines right now, but they are seen mainly as a solution for Linux test-dev environments. In reality, container technology can pay big dividends for MS-SQL. Join Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and DH2i’s Carl Berglund

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ChalkTalk Video: Eliminating Flash Sprawl

Flash is the cure for almost all storage performance problems and can make a difference a variety of workloads. Tier 1 OLTP applications are an obvious use case for flash as is Tier 2 VMware environments and even Tier 3

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MS-SQL Admins – Step Up and Smell the Container

Container technologies like Docker are capturing a lot of headlines in IT circles right now. They provide a greater level of granularity than a virtual machine, creating a more portable and flexible environment. The problem is that most of the

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Webinar: The Top 3 Reasons To Start Using Containers For Your MS-SQL Environment

Container technologies are capturing the industry headlines right now, but they are seen mainly as a solution for Linux test-dev environments. In reality, container technology can pay big dividends for MS-SQL. Join Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and DH2i’s Carl Berglund

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SlideShare: Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL? Server-side, hybrid or all-flash?

For many organizations MS-SQL is the backend to many of their mission critical applications. The environment provides a cost effective foundation for an organization to develop custom designed solutions that drive the business forward. As MS-SQL has risen in importance,

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Flash Showdown – Which Flash is best for MS-SQL, Server or Shared?

In our on-demand webinar “Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL?” one of the polling questions delivered a surprising result; 67% of respondents that were using flash to accelerate MS-SQL, were using flash inside of the server, instead of shared flash on the

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MS-SQL Performance – Things to do before you Flash

Prior to implementing a flash solution, it is important to make sure the environment is ready for it so maximum value can be extracted from the flash investment. Watch this trailer from our Webinar “Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL?

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Flash Strategies for MS-SQL

Applications based on Microsoft SQL (MS-SQL) seem like obvious candidates for some type of flash performance boost. The high IOPS and low latency of flash storage is almost a perfect match for the high transaction MS-SQL environments. While almost any

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