Hostway just announced it will be holding a presentation for the Chicago chapter of the “Professional Association for SQL Server,” on Aug. 12th, 2010

Hostway is a huge cloud hosting provider, providing more than 1.4 million websites and 600,000 customers hosting worldwide.  Having them speak at an event like the Professional Association for SQL Servers would be a great boost to the industry.  Their presentation, entitled “Cloud Computing: DBA Friend or Foe?” will be delivered by Stratavia, the organization that Hostway has partnered with to deliver NetDBAs. The key points will center on database administration in the cloud. It

“Cloud Computing: DBA Friend or Foe?”  will showcase NetDBAs as an innovative enterprise-class database automation solution that simplifies the management of corporate databases and can be consumed cost effectively as a service.

As a bonus to all those that attend the presentation: A 30-day free trial of the NetDBAs product will be offered to all attendees.

“We are excited to be a part of the Chicago chapter of the Professional Association for SQL Server. This is a great opportunity for chapter members to explore the value of cloud computing applications to enhance database administration” said Todd Benjamin, vice president of enterprise hosting. “We will be demonstrating NetDBA; a value added solution that automates and simplifies the most time consuming and repetitive tasks typically performed by SQL Server database administrators. NetDBAs harnesses highend enterprise-class automation technology, and is deployed in the cloud to be cost effective and versatile.”