While the cloud continues to grow in popularity for many, if not most, enterprise applications, IT departments remain reluctant to trust public clouds, including the Google Cloud Platform, for business-critical Microsoft SQL Server applications. Their primary concern is the increased risk and complexity of running Microsoft SQL Server, and optionally Microsoft’s Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC), in environments where high-availability clustering configurations are often less robust and more expensive than they are in a private enterprise cloud.
