Skill Me UP Expert Talk

Database workloads demand good storage performance in order to work well, and Azure offers you a lot of storage options. In this expert talk, you will learn about the principles of Azure Storage and how it works in conjunction with Virtual Machines. You’ll learn options for how to configure your storage for optimal performance, and options for balancing your cost versus performance. Finally, you’ll learn the best practices for how to layout your SQL Server files.

Joseph D'Antoni is an Principal Consultant at Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting and Microsoft Data Platform MVP with over 20 years of experience working in both Fortune 500 and smaller firms. He has worked with SQL Server and Oracle since version 7 of each database and has specific expertise in performance tuning, infrastructure, and disaster recovery.