IT organizations must maintainservice level agreements(SLAs) by meeting the demands of applications that work on a SQL Server. To meet these requirements they must deliver superior performance and continuous uptime of each SQL Server instance. Furthermore, application dependent on SQL Server, such as agile development, CRM, BI, or IOT, are increasingly dynamic and require faster adaptability to performance and high availability challenges than device level provisioning, analytics and management can provide.
In this blog, which is the first of a 3 part series, we will discuss the challenges IT organizations face with SQL server and solution that helps them overcome these challenges.
ChallengesAll these concerns can be associated toacommon root cause, which is the storage infrastructure. Did you know that62%of DBAs experiencelatency of more than 10 milliseconds when writing to disks1?Not only does this slowdown impact the user experience, but also hasDBAsspending hours tuning the database.Now that is the impact of storage on SQL Server performance; so what aboutitsimpact onavailability? Well, according to surveys, 50% of organizations don’t have an adequate business continuity planbecauseof expensive storage solution2.When it comes to agility,DBAs have agility onat the SQL Server level, but IT administrators don’t have the same agility on the storage side especially when they have to depend on heterogeneous disk arrays. Surveys shows that a majority of enterprises have 2 or more types of storage and 73% have more than 4 types3.
Read the entire article here, Performance, Availability and Agility for SQL Server Part 1
via the fine folks at DataCore Software
