Viscosity Microsoft Consulting Services
Put Viscosity's Consulting, Training & Integration Services To Work For Your Organization
Consulting
Viscosity is a Microsoft Gold Partner, making our consultants Microsoft certified experts! We can be your single source of expertise from short-term SQL Server performance tuning and health check assessments to complete support of projects.
Microsoft Azure
The benefits of Azure are endless, and we can help you get up and running with migrations from on-prem to the cloud, managed instances, or even synapse and Hyperscale! Did we mention that we can migrate your databases to the cloud with near zero downtime? Ask us about automated scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, and more.
Training
With the recent acquisition of OraPub.com, Viscosity is 100% committed to the training business. Viscosity adds SQL Server administration training courses for DBAs and Architects to our repertoire. For customers who are new or seasoned on SQL Server or Azure, Viscosity offers education and training on database administration and SQL management.
Solutions
Viscosity's experts stay on the leading edge of best practices! Our results focus on the maturity roadmap to optimal database productivity and continuity, from security to backup and recovery, HA, performance, manageability, SLAs, and standardization.
SQL Server Services
Digital transformation plays a vital role in every organization’s technology roadmap. Companies have dependencies on legacy systems and processes that have become roadblocks towards digital transformation. Customers struggle with Microsoft’s end of support (EOS) for Windows Server and SQL Server legacy versions (i.e., SQL Server 2008/2012). Staying updated on the legacy releases introduces enormous burdens to customers in order to provide stability, security, and regulatory compliance. This causes customers to face tremendous pressure to upgrade their Windows and SQL Server environments to supported versions.
Microsoft Azure
Customers can take advantage of this opportunity to migrate, modernize and redefine their database infrastructure to the latest Microsoft releases. Along the way, they can secure their data, provide higher availability, enhance performance, and improve the overall customer experience to drive a competitive advantage over their competitors. The best option for modernization is to migrate their legacy estates to Azure Cloud.
In a nutshell, our cloud migration strategy involves three critical phases:
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Cloud Readiness and Assessment of what you have on-premises. We want to know your database workload, IOPs, throughput, and application latencies. We will perform a high-level health check of your environment
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Architecture and Deployment to accommodate your database workload characteristics in terms of VM, storage, memory, and network.
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Post migration support to meet application performance and stability SLAs.
Migrate SQL Server workloads to Azure
Viscosity is a Microsoft Gold Partner specializing in migrating business-critical SQL Server workloads to Azure. Not only can Viscosity “move and improve” SQL Server databases to Azure, but we can also provide the end-to-end Azure Cloud infrastructure configuration with industry best practices. Viscosity can move SQL Server databases to IaaS VMs or Azure SQL Database depending on your database’s size, workload, and complexity. We have a proven method that has been tested with dozens of customers to migrate on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure.
Performance tune SQL Server databases on-premises & on Azure
Customers can struggle with database performance issues after they migrate to Azure. Viscosity’s certified Azure architects can identify gaps in cloud infrastructure configurations and correct any misconfigurations to alleviate network, storage, and compute bottlenecks.
Viscosity can review long-running and resource-intensive SQL queries and make recommendations for optimal performance.
Performance tune Microsoft applications
Viscosity has application developers who can assess application code, processes, and data access methods and make recommendations for code changes. Our developers can make tuning recommendations on the windows application tier.
Migrate databases with zero downtime with 3rd party replication tools
Viscosity is a partner with all major data replication vendors and can architect a data replication strategy to perform a database migration to the cloud with near zero-downtime cutover. We have the tools to compare record sets and even identify deviances in data between the source and target platforms. Our proven migration strategies replicate data from on-premises to the cloud and keep the databases in sync with live transactions.
Upgrade databases with zero downtime with 3rd party replication tools
As customers consider migrating to the cloud, customers can upgrade their databases and modernize their data platform along the way. With our data replication strategies, customers can migrate and upgrade to the latest SQL Server release to truly get the best ROI in their cloud investment.
Improvements that we have made for our customers during their Azure Cloud journey include the following:
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Reduced the customer’s CPU core counts on Azure with right-sizing and architecture
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Reduced cloud spending with proactive monitoring and automation
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Increased security for databases and Windows OS
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Tuned SQL Server databases on-premises and on Azure
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Tuned Microsoft applications to reduce VM footprint for both application and databases
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Migrated SQL databases to Azure with zero downtime leveraging 3rd party replication tools
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Upgraded SQL databases with zero downtime leveraging 3rd party replication tools
Viscosity does this on a regular basis and wants to help you migrate your databases to the cloud and even upgrade/patch the databases along the way with a near zero-downtime strategy. With our proven near zero-downtime implementations, you can rest assured and have confidence in the SQL Server database modernization journey in the cloud.
First, we will collaborate with your infrastructure and application personnel. Then we will tune your cloud configuration on Azure and ensure that the application code behaves the same or better as they migrate to the cloud. We are aware of latency-sensitive applications and will partner with you to understand application processes and requirements. As we share our experiences, we will address your concerns about cloud adoption.
SQL Server database migration to the cloud tends to be one of the final frontiers that pose challenges toward cloud adoption. With the correct network and security configuration, you can rest assured that your database workloads from on-premises to Azure-based cloud services will meet performance and stability expectations. Our customers recognize applications and infrastructure transformation by taking advantage of the agility and flexibility of the Azure Cloud.
Partnership
Viscosity specializes in the niche technologies such as Cloud (Azure/Oracle Cloud/AWS/Google), Clustering Technologies, Data Warehousing, Oracle/SQL Server, High Availability (Always On), Data replication, remote services, and performance tuning.
Get In Touch
We are not just an infrastructure or a cloud company; we strive to be a data company. At the heart of every database and application, data is the most critical element that every company values and protects. We want to ensure that your data is available all the time in an efficient SQL retrieval path, and most importantly, you have the highest level of data analytics to make informed decisions.
Viscosity's core expertise includes:
Data Transformation, Emerging Technology, High Availability & Scalability Solutions, Cloud Migrations, Performance Tuning, Data Integrations, Machine Learning, APEX Development, and Custom Application Development.