Optimize your costs with Azure SQL Managed Instance

Migrating your SQL Server data to the cloud can yield immediate cost savings opportunities when your IT spend shifts from a capital expense to an operational expense. However, there are many other ways you can continue to optimize your costs in the cloud to significantly impact your total cost of ownership.

Azure SQL Managed Instance is an intelligent cloud database service combining the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility with the benefits of a fully managed platform as a service. Join this webcast to see how Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance and Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors can help you:

• Avoid app rewrite costs – High SQL Server compatibility ensure you avoid app rewrite costs, and shortens migration time and risks.
• Utilize the value of PaaS – Experience a fully managed platform as a service and decrease direct costs related to maintenance, backups, high-availability, or your data center.
• Right-size according to your needs – Optimize costs by choosing the appropriate service tier, hardware tier, and instance size based on your business and technical requirements.
• Utilize unique benefits and capabilities – Achieve significant savings by using commercial benefits such as Azure Hybrid Benefit, Reserved Instances, and a Free Geo-DR benefit. Additionally, admin capabilities such as Start/Stop and Backup LTR/STR can enable you to significantly reduce costs. Developers can also contribute to cost savings by leveraging capabilities such as Read-Only replicas and virtualization.
  

Webcast Date

Thursday, March 30, 2023
1:00:00 PM EDT (New York) | 5:00:00 PM UTC

Speaker(s)

Niko Neugebauer is a Senior Product Manager for SQL Managed Instance at Microsoft. He has helped customers successfully build, migrate, and optimize Microsoft Data solutions for over 20 years, working primarily in the in OLTP & OLAP markets. As a community leader, he has led the Portuguese Data Platform User Group for over 11 years, and he organized the first international SQLSaturday (#78 Lisbon). Niko is a regular speaker at major events such as SQLBits and the PASS Summit.

Djordje Marinkovic is a Senior Product Manager in the Microsoft Azure SQL organization. Djordje has held various engineering and business roles in the semiconductor, electronics, and IT industries over the course of twenty years. Djordje holds a Dr.-Ing. in electrical engineering.

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