Feburary Meeting

Agenda
5:30 Food arrives/networking
6:00 Meeting starts
7-7:15 Wrap up and prizes

Presentation: Determining the Cost to Move to Azure

You have read all about moving to the cloud, spoken to colleagues who are on it and even attended events where they told you about how great it is, and YOU ARE SOLD! You recognize the benefits of storing your SQL Server workloads in the cloud and ready for things to happen. Everyone agrees its the right answer, however, there is one problem. Your organization needs to understand the expected costs before moving forward. Understanding the cost to move to Azure and its run rate are questions several companies struggle with and has led to several choosing to stay in their current state. It is not because the cost is too high as some may expect, but oftentimes because simply no one has any idea what to expect.

In this session, I will walk you through steps that show you how to estimate the cost of your move to Azure and provide several unique considerations along the way that can have an impact on this. Next time someone asks how much, you will be ready!

Speaker: Dustin Dorsey

Dustin Dorsey is currently the Director of Data Management at Lifepoint Health. He has been working with SQL Server for well over a decade in many different areas including administration, development and analytics. During this time, Dustin has gained a keen interest and specialization in cost management around the data platform both on-prem and in the cloud that he has used to provide significant savings for organizations he has worked with. He loves sharing things he has learned so in his spare time, he enjoys regularly speaking at conferences and community events, as well as, blogging about things he has learned. He also helps lead his local user group and SQLSaturday.

Sponsor: Vaco
Vaco provides expert consulting, permanent placement, executive search and strategic staffing for companies around the world, in the areas of accounting, finance, technology, healthcare, operations, administration and more. As a premier talent solutions firm, Vaco connects people to their dream jobs and helps leading companies find talent to grow their business.

Since its founding in 2002, Vaco has grown to 40 offices across the globe, 820+ employees, more than 4,300 consultants and $750M in revenue. Vaco has been named to Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest-growing private companies for past 12 years and is dedicated to developing long-term relationships, life-long careers and creative client solutions.