Infrastructure as a Service, (IaaS) is what most think they have to go to when they’ve failed at the cloud migration game of PaaS and SaaS. For a significant percentage, it’s the key to doing the cloud their way. When you have a database quantified as “the whale in the pond”, that unique, proprietary environment or have demanding SLAs, RPOs, RTOs, DR and other acronyms that can’t be met by a PaaS or SaaS service, knowing the ins and outs of IaaS can be the key to success.

As much as IaaS covers, there are some vital areas of importance for the data professional. This session aims to take you through what those are when migrating relational databases to the cloud.

Kellyn Gorman specializes in Infrastructure as a Service with Oracle on Azure at Microsoft and will share what she’s learned in her last two years engaging in migrations of clustered and even engineered systems onto Azure cloud successfully. She’ll deep dive into the infrastructure, discuss options only a few know about, limitations, and opportunities that make IaaS a great place to be if you’ve been hesitant to move to the cloud before. She’ll share tips and tricks around important factors to consider when migrating data to the cloud and how to simulate a more PaaS like solution when IaaS is the way you need to go.