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SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Upgrades + Amazon Web Services Migrations.

Extended support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 ends on July 9, 2019. Partner with Datavail and let us help you plan, implement, and execute your critical upgrades.

Transform your data warehouse in weeks, not years

Launch your data warehouse transformation into the cloud with a Proof of Concept (PoC) leveraging
a reference architecture, leading solutions from AWS, Tableau, Matillion, and 47Lining experts.

Upgrade + Migration = Cost Savings

Leverage Datavail’s expertise and experience to plan and execute your SQL Server 2008 and R2 upgrades and migrations to AWS for effortless scalability and cost savings.
Add Datavail’s DBA team as your trusted advisors after the upgrades and migrations are completed to improve performance and help increase database availability, reliability, security, integrity, and recoverability.

Phase 1: Discover

Take inventory of your SQL Server instances
Identify compatibility issues with Upgrade Advisor
Review with your team on the compatibility issues
Collect baseline performance metrics

Phase 2: Plan and Target

Assess the ideal AWS infrastructure for your workloads (Amazon RDS or EC2)
Explore the migration options
Review the upgrade strategies (in-place or side-by-side)
Finalize the sequencing and steps
Agree on the rollback plan

Phase 3: Upgrade and Migrate

Upgrade/migrate the lower environment such as dev and QA
QA and validate with thorough testing
Remediate issues as they arise
update and revise the upgrade/migration plan as needed
Stimulate the real upgrades/migration with the test and stage environments
Upgrade/migrate the production environment

Starter Package Deliverables

Carry your real data through the flow, enabling your analytics team to see how this cloud architecture is built and operated
Deliver insights to your business users
Cost analysis and ROI for full migration and on-going operations
Operations and cross-collaboration assessment – “as is” & “to be”

Customer Contribution

Identification of up to 3 sources of 500GB total data for PoC
Access to 1 operational data source for demonstration of sync
Requirements for up to 5 dashboards

Key Activities

Ingest data from a variety of on-premises, SaaS, 3rd party, and public data sources to answer your most important business questions
Develop on-going data transformation and sync flows with Matillion
Load data into Amazon Redshift for data warehousing and Amazon RDS for serving performant dashboards
Visualize results with rich dashboards, data exploration, and drill-downs using Tableau

Get Your Free Migration Consultation

For further information on Datavail’s Microsoft Workloads Database Migration Services, please click the link below. FREE 30-minute consultation for the first 10 scheduled meetings each week. Visit:

https://www.datavail.com/resources/sql-server-2008- extended-support-ends-2019-plan-now/

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One of the largest remote data services companies in North America with 1000+ data professionals. Advanced Tier Partnership with AWS. AWS Microsoft Workload Competency Partner. 75+ AWS Certified Professional. 300+ SQL Server Upgrades and AWS Migrations. Exceptional post migrations/upgrade support + 24x7 monitoring.

Data Warehouse Modernization Jumpstart Package

SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Upgrades + Amazon Web Services Migrations.