Hot of the press is the announcement of MS Azure support for local SSD, up to 800GB which should be enough for “most” TempDBs.http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/09/22/new-d-series-virtual-machine-sizes/ Now this doesn’t have me too excited as its volatile and core storage is still a bit challenging to get IOPS on, especially if you need “burst” capability. What has me super excited … Continue reading Azure “D” Series – Cost of 16 cores comes down by 51% with Local SSD