Enterprises and service providers have investments across multiple clouds such as Azure, AWS, VMware, System Center, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack HCI, etc., to deliver cutting-edge solutions to their customers.

A query is a request for information from a database. A query plan (or query execution plan) is an ordered set of steps used to access data in a SQL relational database management system.

A single query can be executed through different algorithms or re-written in various forms and structures. Hence, the question of query optimization comes into the picture – Which of these forms or pathways is the most optimal? The query optimizer attempts to determine the most efficient way to execute a given query by considering the possible query plans.

Enterprises and Service providers have been leveraging Windows Azure Pack and System Center VMM to deliver an on-premises private cloud experience to customers for several years now. With the end-of-life set for Windows Azure Pack in July 2022 comes the challenge of migrating users from those platforms to a future-proof solution that will scale well and bring continuous innovations for service delivery for years to come. An essential aspect of the challenge is to migrate users as seamlessly as possible, with zero impact on the workloads. This article will explore how to accomplish it and a real-life success story of migrating a large customer with hundreds of tenants from Windows Azure Pack to the modern Hybr® SDX Datacenter platform.

Hybrid infrastructure enables a company to store vital data on a private cloud and non-essential data on a public one. Hence, the demand for public and private cloud adoption rises over the years. In this article, we present the top 5 billing challenges faced by most of the Cloud resellers at this day and age.

Small businesses and established enterprises choose to purchase cloud services from a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) and transition to the cloud.