When it runs these reports, it notices considerable performance issues with the employee-facing application. The Contoso human resources (HR) department has several reports it runs on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Contoso needs a way to scale its instances past current limitations or scale down if the business environment changes to save on costs. The on-premises database host is quickly running out of capacity. Contoso wants to have close to 99.99 percent availability for the database layer. RequirementsД¬urrently internal staff are having a hard time with the hosting environment for the MariaDB instance. These goals were used to determine the best migration method. The Contoso cloud team has pinned down goals for this migration. As the business grows successfully, Contoso IT must provide systems that grow at the same pace. It mustn't get in the way or become a business blocker. It must react faster than the changes in the marketplace to enable success in a global economy. Contoso IT needs to be more responsive to the needs of the business. The business needs IT to be fast and not waste time or money to deliver faster on customer requirements. Contoso needs to remove unnecessary procedures and streamline processes for developers and users. The business requires the applications that use this data store to be more reliable. Contoso has had availability issues with its MariaDB on-premises environment. The IT leadership team has worked closely with business partners to understand what they want to achieve with this migration. The company's migration goal is to continue to use MariaDB but not worry about managing the environment needed to support it. ColumnStore storage engine for analytical workloads.Open-source support with features and extensions.This article demonstrates how the fictional company Contoso planned and migrated its on-premises MariaDB open-source database platform to Azure.Д¬ontoso is using MariaDB instead of MySQL because of its:

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