What You Need to Know About Convincing Customers for Downtime? In today’s digital landscape, ensuring uninterrupted service is a top priority for organizations, especially in sectors where any disruption can have significant consequences, such as healthcare, finance, and insurance. However, during critical system upgrades, migrations, or maintenance, downtime becomes unavoidable. Effectively managing and convincing customers about the necessity of downtime requires a strategic approach.
I would broadly categorise this into two aspects
Note to the Reader This article is for developers with an existing ASP.NET Core Entity Framework based application currently utilizing SQL Server database for user authentication. If you’re considering migrating to PostgreSQL, this guide is designed to provide you with a clear and effective roadmap for a seamless transition."
Overview In the ever-evolving landscape of database management, the decision to migrate from SQL Server to PostgreSQL marks a strategic move towards enhanced flexibility, cost efficiency, and scalability.
Migrating Large SQL Server Data to the Cloud In today’s digital landscape, businesses are increasingly moving their data to the cloud to leverage its scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. However, migrating large volumes of data while ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining data integrity poses a significant challenge for organizations. One such challenge was encountered during one of my projects to migrate on-premises SQL Server data to Microsoft Azure, without compromising on availability.
Context We all know that migrating on-premise workloads to the cloud offers numerous advantages for individuals, businesses, and organizations. These advantages include cost efficiency, scalability, security and reliability, data backup and recovery, speed and performance, reduced IT management, competitive advantage, and many more. Cloud migration typically involves several phases, starting with discovery and assessment. In this article, I will cover the Discovery and Assessment phase of the cloud migration journey.
Cloud migration is often perceived merely as the transfer of workloads from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. However, the true potential of cloud adoption extends far beyond this initial step. To fully leverage the benefits of the cloud, organizations must embrace comprehensive transformations across various facets of their operations.
In addition to the technological transformation. we need to also focus on Process Transformation, Organizational Transformation and Product Transformation.
Process Transformation Think about how grocery shopping has changed with online delivery services.
