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SQL Server Operations
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.
2026-04-28
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SQL Server Operations
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.
2026-04-27
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Infrastructure Strategy
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.
2026-04-21
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Virtualization Strategy
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.
2026-04-21
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Infrastructure Strategy
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.
2026-04-20
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Backup Architecture
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.
2026-04-19
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Infrastructure Strategy
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.
2026-04-12
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Infrastructure Strategy
The enduring mistake in infrastructure strategy was never cloud itself, but the belief that every workload should land on the same platform.
2026-04-09
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SQL Server 2025
SQL Server 2025 introduces several changes that matter directly for Always On estates, especially around readable secondaries, concurrency behavior, and tempdb control.
2026-04-09
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Backup Architecture
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.
2026-04-09
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Backup Architecture
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.
2026-04-02
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SQL Server
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.
2026-03-18
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Infrastructure Strategy
Operational simplicity is not cosmetic. In enterprise infrastructure, it is a control mechanism.
2026-02-27
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