Beyond Limits: Unlocking 500,000 IOPS for Your Database in the Cloud

Chris Madden

Running your most demanding SQL Server databases on the public cloud might make you nervous. Can it even deliver the performance you need? What about availability and data protection? And assuming it’s even technically possible, what about cost?

In this session we’ll answer these questions through presentation and demonstration as we explore how to design, build, and manage database solutions on Google Cloud that are performant, highly available, and cost-effective:

(1) Performance: Dive deep into Compute Engine’s machine types that are best suited for databases, and Hyperdisk storage that can deliver 500,000 IOPs to a single VM.
(2) High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Leverage infrastructure capabilities like synchronous mirror across zones, and asynchronous mirroring across regions, for even more flexibility in solution design.
(3) Cost Management: Discover methods for optimizing resource utilization and minimizing costs of infrastructure and SQL Server licenses by leveraging the elasticity of Cloud resources to rightsize, scale up and down, in and out, in new ways.

Leave with practical knowledge and actionable steps to build and deploy your optimized SQL Server solution on Google Cloud.