Ascent Technology offers end-to-end, cost effective, Enterprise Data Platform and Azure, Consulting and Support Services.
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SQL Server 2016 is out of support. Windows Server 2016 follows in January, SQL Server 2017 next October. The queue only ends on a platform with no version to queue for.
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Four Microsoft dates between July and February decide what your estate will cost next year. None of them will say so on the invoice.
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You cannot govern an estate you have not counted. A database health check is not a diagnostic – it is the count.
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King V made the board accountable for the data estate. A policy is not an answer – an inventory is.
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Any CSP can match a licence price.
What a price list cannot tell you is who answers for the bill, the ticket and the architecture as one. One partner, one accountable line.
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Every SQL Server deadline funds a project that ships nothing new – real budget, months of testing, and if all goes perfectly, nothing changes. There is a version of that project you only ever run once.
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Microsoft subsidised SQL Server deferral for a decade.
That ended in July. Waiting is now metered, back-billed to day one – and it buys Critical fixes only, on no schedule.
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SQL Server 2016 is out of support, and for the first time in three cycles Azure is not a free exit. The deadline was published years ago. The repricing is the news.
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A CSP that only moves licences is a reseller with a Microsoft badge.
The better question is whether your CSP can read the architecture your licences run on.
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You cannot buy your way out of a data problem with more Copilot licences.
Readiness is a programme: govern what each use case touches, in the right order, before you switch it on.
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Every silo in your data estate is a tax on every decision that depends on it.
Microsoft Fabric collapses that sprawl into one governed platform – and how you sequence the move matters more than the licence.
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Copilot arrives knowing nothing about your business.
It reads what your permissions let it reach, and answers with a confidence your data may not have earned.
AI readiness is data readiness.
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We ask clients to prove governance at their data layer.
ISO/IEC 27001 is how we prove our own – independently audited, every year, since 2021.
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A firewall can tell you what crossed the network. It cannot tell you which tables an authenticated user read at 02:00, or why.
Database security is a discipline at the data layer – not a perimeter tool stretched to cover it.
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A South African organisation is breached every three hours.
The route in varies – the destination is always the database, the one layer most security budgets never reach.
Guarding the route while the destination goes unwatched is not a strategy.
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EA and MPSA Levels B, C, and D are gone. Level A unchanged. For everyone else, the cost argument that used to make EA automatic is weaker than it was.
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Azure by credit card produces invoices at Microsoft's retail list rates. It does not produce governance. And the larger the spend becomes, the wider that gap.
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