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SQL Server Operations

SQL Server 2025 on Linux Is a Platform Decision

The April 2026 SQL Server 2025 Linux release notes make platform support part of the database decision: RHEL 10 and Ubuntu 24.04 are current paths, while SLES is no longer supported for SQL Server 2025.

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SQL Server Operations

SQL Server Patching Is a Production Discipline

Microsoft's April 2026 SQL Server 2025 security and CU releases are a useful reminder that database patching is not a calendar task. It needs workload awareness, HA sequencing, and a tested rollback path.

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Infrastructure operations desk with identity and network service dashboards

Infrastructure Strategy

Infrastructure Is Boring Again, and That Is the Real Story of 2026

April 2026 delivered a more useful infrastructure lesson than any hype cycle: identity patching, boot trust, SQL security, and end-of-support planning still meet in the same place, which is production risk.

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Virtualization Strategy

VMware Is No Longer Just a Hypervisor Decision

The March and April 2026 VMware partner changes matter because they push virtualization out of a simple feature comparison and into a harder question about supplier concentration, support continuity, and how quickly workloads can move when the commercial model shifts.

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Power and cooling infrastructure beside high-density compute racks

Infrastructure Strategy

AI Infrastructure Has a Power Problem, Not a Model Problem

The hottest infrastructure story in April 2026 is not another model launch. It is the fact that AI demand is pushing power, cooling, and permitting into the critical path for real platform decisions.

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Backup Architecture

Veeam's March CVEs Are a Reminder That Backup Is a Tier-One System

Veeam's March 12, 2026 security advisories and its April 14 resilience report point to the same operational lesson: backup platforms cannot be treated as passive insurance because they now sit directly inside the blast radius of real production risk.

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Infrastructure Strategy

Why Datacenter Control Matters Again

Recent VMware, Microsoft, and Veeam signals point in the same direction: teams are investing in datacenter and private-cloud control again because supportability, recovery, and workload placement still need tighter ownership than generic platform narratives allow.

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Infrastructure Strategy

The Biggest Myth in IT: The Future Was Never Cloud-Only

The enduring mistake in infrastructure strategy was never cloud itself, but the belief that every workload should land on the same platform.

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SQL Server 2025

SQL Server 2025 and Always On: What Matters for Real HA Environments

SQL Server 2025 introduces several changes that matter directly for Always On estates, especially around readable secondaries, concurrency behavior, and tempdb control.

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Backup Architecture

Object First and Veeam: What Immutable Backup Design Should Actually Solve

Immutable storage only becomes useful when it simplifies Veeam operations instead of wrapping backup teams in more storage complexity. Object First is interesting because it tries to move immutability into the default platform shape.

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Backup Architecture

Immutability Without Operational Drag

Immutable backup design only becomes useful when it stays fast, understandable, and credible during restore pressure. Good designs reduce operational complexity instead of adding more backup folklore.

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SQL Server

SQL Server Performance in Real Environments

Performance work becomes more useful when it is tied to concurrency, resilience, and operational behavior instead of isolated tuning tasks. Stable systems are usually the result of good tradeoffs, not heroic query tuning.

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Infrastructure Strategy

Reducing Complexity Without Losing Control

Operational simplicity is not cosmetic. In enterprise infrastructure, it is a control mechanism.

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