Ninety percent of enterprises utilize cloud services, 67% of enterprise infrastructure is now cloud-based, and 86% of businesses employ a multi-cloud strategy. What does that mean for data professionals who have worked with on-premises technology for years? Do we have to relearn everything from ground zero? How can we leverage the knowledge and experience we have acquired over the years and apply it to the cloud?
If you are thinking about these questions, this session is for you. Many responsibilities have become shared between database administrators and the cloud provider. For example, in the PaaS model, the cloud provider will take a database backup, while the database administrators are responsible for setting up long-term retention.
We will discuss these critical areas of database administration (System provisioning, Data Migration, Data Security, Performance tuning and monitoring, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Backup and Recovery, and Cost management). I will show/explain what existing skills we will need and what new ones you will need to learn. I will also cover tools provided by cloud providers that you will need to learn and use.
This session will equip attendees with the necessary information to successfully administer databases in the cloud.

An attendee will walk away knowing three things:
1. Translating On-Premises Expertise to the Cloud.
2. For each critical area of database administration, a list of new skills is required to be a successful "Cloud DBA"?
3. What tools can Cloud DBAs leverage that the provider provides (in this case, Microsoft Azure)?