14. Modernization to the Azure Cloud
No SQL Server 2019 book is complete without a discussion of Azure's role regarding modernization and the data platform. Research data puts the percentage of workloads in the cloud by 2020 at more than 80% (according to the Cloud Vision 2020 study carried out by LogicMonitor: https://www.logicmonitor.com/resource/the-future-of-the-cloud-a-cloud-influencers-survey/). The cloud's cost savings in a shorter time to market, the ability to scale without hardware limitations, and fewer resource demands on IT teams, all provide an opportunity that more and more businesses are taking advantage of. Just a decade ago, it was a common scenario for the database administrator to wait for a server to be made available ...
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