Ramesh Parameswaran

A relaxed Fourth of July sail in the San Juan Islands turned into 20-knot winds, four-foot chop, and a passing whale — and three lessons that reach well beyond sailing.

Synthetic data can be generated and used to protect privacy during AI/ML modeling, development, and test. Basing synthetic data on production datasets provides for the most accurate learning models and realistic test

A brief update on what’s new in 2022, including new support for SQL Server 2022, industry-first writable SQL Server snapshots, automated production image timeline support, and new support for third-party backups, and copy only transaction log

Windocks 6.0 introduced support for Linux database virtualization, and a scale-out distributed data repository. This article expands on these new capabilities and introduces database orchestration as a superior approach to on demand database delivery and

Windocks now includes optional SQL Server data masking. This article explores Windocks new data masking and why over 90% of Windocks evaluators choose Windocks over Red Gate in head to head

Windocks now supports Postgres and MySQL containers and database cloning, the first commercially support for Postgres and MySQL containers on Windows. The combination of containers with on demand database environments is a recognized best practice for development and test, and

Windocks new support for live secondary databases is a game changer for a growing number of use cases. Near real-time access to production databases is a boon for devops, database migration, production database debug support, and even DR with “readiness

AWS RDS is growing in popularity for managed and scalable SQL Server databases as a service. Support for SQL Server Report Server, however, has been limited to conventional instances on EC2 VMs. Read about a new approach that applies SSRS containers for greater scalability and

Containers combined with database cloning is being used to modernize software development. But, the journey toward automated DevOps processes is a step-wise progression. In this article we look at some practical steps to answer the question of “should I be backing up developers

Cohesity is a leader in secondary data management and storage, so it’s not surprising that Windocks customers have asked for turn-key stateful management of Cohesity data with delivery to SQL Server containers and instances. The combination of enterprise class data storage with SQL Server…