The evolution of the Database - from Lotus 123 to the cloud
5 Steps to Bullet-proofing your Online Infrastructure
On last week’s webinar – “The Top 5 Challenges Upgrading to SQL Server 2012/2014 – and How to Overcome Them” – we had some great questions from the audience that we wanted to share more broadly. They touch on challenges around licensing, backward compatibility, and accessing cool new features such as read/write splt, replication-aware load balancing, and automatic failover.
We’re excited to introduce the results of our second testing series with Percona – how ScaleArc accelerates WordPress.
As the world’s most popular content management system and blogging tool, WordPress drives the majority of the Internet’s busiest web sites. Scaling the web tier is easy, thanks to Application Delivery Controllers such as F5 and NetScaler. But scaling the database tier is very challenging – especially when third-party software you can’t manipulate is involved.
Imagine getting maximum value from your SQL Server 2012/2014 upgrade – quickly, easily and cost-effectively – without changing a single thing for your critical business applications.
Using database traffic management software, you can start benefitting right now from SQL Server 2012/2014’s distributed capabilities – without any of the upgrade hassle. By eliminating the need to make any modifications at the application or database layers, you can save hundreds of application development hours and speed return on investment (ROI).
I have for a long time been a fan of what Microsoft is doing with the Azure product. They have made it easy to make Windows environments available on demand and with little to no effort for the user.
With the introduction of the VM Depot, Microsoft has made it possible for users and companies to contribute VM images with other operating systems and products to the Azure catalog. Part of the growing area of the VM Depot is the CentOS-based images. However, the process of preparing CentOS-based systems for use by end users through the VM Depot can be cumbersome and lends itself to user error.
“This is awesome – I didn’t know something like this was even available!”
“You mean, we could get rid of maintenance windows for our SQL Servers?!”
These are my two favorite quotes from our discussion with IT heroes this week at Interop. I started going to this trade show back in 1991, so I always have fun seeing colleagues from my days as a journalist, my analyst time at META, and the great teams I’ve worked with at fun start-ups along the way. But in all my years going to Interop, I’ve never had such a unique story to tell on the trade show floor.
Last week, Percona published the first of several benchmarks they are performing on ScaleArc’s software to judge its performance and reliability. Percona is a trusted source in the MySQL community, known for being driven by those exact two factors, performance and reliability. We wanted to make sure that a third party validated all the hard work we’ve been putting into making ScaleArc the fastest, lowest latency, highest performance option available in the MySQL traffic management space. Percona ran ScaleArc's software through the grind, and at times we heard from them that the results surprised them, as the software seemed to do stuff which seemed physically impossible.
Attending Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo?
Want to know how seamless, automated failover can increase your uptime? Interested in easily and quickly scaling your MySQL database – without spending a ton of time or money? Curious about what’s really taking up resources on your MySQL databases?
Do you need to simplify scale out and scale up?
When we set out to build ScaleArc almost five years ago, the entire scalable database landscape was shaky and fragmented, with various divergent approaches being taken by different innovators to address the scalability challenges facing anyone who wanted to build applications that could serve millions of users on the web.
"The database market is in need of a big change.” So says MongoDB’s Max Schireson. And we couldn’t agree more. We just don’t agree on what that change is.
MongoDB is on a campaign to tell the world the “reign of the relational database” is over. Anyone who says that clearly doesn’t understand what “realm” relational databases “reign” over. The SQL database market has become a $24b/year industry because it delivers the data consistency at the heart of critical business processes – it enables real use cases that impact our lives more than any other category of software we know today.
ScaleArc is exhibiting at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re: Invent user conference running November 12-15, 2013 at the Venetian resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. We're in Booth 815. Please stop by and see us!
AWS re: Invent is a great conference for learning more about Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service (RDS). ScaleArc iDB supports both of these key AWS technologies. We offer Amazon Machine Image (AMI) delivery of our award-winning database acceleration software for EC2. Additionally, ScaleArc iDB boosts the performance of host-less RDS data sources and their native server counterparts running on EC2.
