The State Department Outage – Database as the “Weakest Link”
The State Department is only one of the more visible instances of an organization suffering a service outage as a results of a database going down. A quick search on “database outage” yields a throng of mea culpa blog entries of companies detailing how a “seemingly simple” database change or upgrade resulted in an outage of minutes, hours, or – as the poor State Department is enduring – many days.
Web load balancers deliver uptime for web servers, network redundancy and routing algorithms deliver uptime for networks, but what technologies exist to complement the database and improve its uptime? Sadly, typically nothing. Most often, apps are directly written and connected to the database – leaving them vulnerable to database infrastructure changes.
ScaleArc is all about changing that model – offering database load balancing software that front ends databases for all sorts of benefits. Zero downtime maintenance, auto failover without app errors, and no app modifications needed to leverage database failover and scalability – ScaleArc delivers all these capabilities and more.
Organizations can never fully eliminate downtime. But making your database less vulnerable, by adopting database load balancing to increase app availability and performance, just makes good business sense.
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