10 Cloudy Questions to Ask Before Migrating Your SQL Server w/ David Klee

Cloud adoption of database-related services continues to accelerate, but the choices for which service to select – IaaS, DBaaS, and PaaS – all impact the features available to your applications. Selecting a service is a critical first step in the migration process, and selecting poorly can lead to cost overruns and significant time spent going down the wrong path. The questions you do not ask or consider prior to a migration can make or break your cloud experience. The most important ten questions to answer, such as your availability requirements, database-level dependencies, migration strategies, and other critical concerns, will all be discussed so that you are ready to move to the cloud with confidence in your platform of choice.
David Klee is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with a lifelong passion for technology. David spends his days focusing on the convergence of data and infrastructure as the Founder of Onyxpected Labs and Heraflux Technologies. His areas of expertise are cloud and on-premises infrastructure, performance tuning, datacenter architecture, and risk mitigation through high availability and disaster recovery.