The evolution of the Database - from Lotus 123 to the cloud
5 Steps to Bullet-proofing your Online Infrastructure
Even after shipping product for four years and winning customers like Nasdaq, Dell, and Microsoft, we here at ScaleArc still really love it when we win industry awards! This week, the recognition comes from Database Trends and Applications, the quality pub focused on database management, data science, and data center management.
DBTA named ScaleArc one of its “Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2017” today. The publication noted that it focuses on products that are both unique and effective in meeting the current and future needs of customers.
Black Friday. Retailers know it's coming every year, and still – every year – someone has a spectacular failure. This year Macy's gets top billing – asking customers to wait to shop. Since 500 milliseconds of web delay is estimated to cost 5% of revenue, how much can we guess Macy's lost by asking EVERY shopper, for hours, to wait to shop? It's clearly in the millions of dollars. And how many of those who clicked over to Nordstrom's or Kohl's in frustration will just keep shopping on those other sites?
As the AWS Re:Invent show kicks off today, ScaleArc is excited to announce an upgrade to our software that delivers compatibility with Amazon Aurora. The updated software extends the capabilities of AWS’s PaaS offering, adding:
In today’s world, Digital Transformation is the driving force behind business and remains at the top of every CEO/CIO/CTO’s priority list. What does Digital Transformation really mean to applications and their corresponding databases? It means that enterprise applications drive the business, “IT” is no longer a cost center, and databases are of even more mission-critical importance to the fundamental health and survival of companies. Every enterprise today is transforming into an online services company, often moving to the cloud, and changing the way they go to market as part of achieving Digital Transformation.
Late last week, we hosted a webinar with our SI partner Pragmatic works to discuss how to architect for Continuous Availability. The audience asked a ton of great questions about the role of a modern database in improving app uptime and how to complement that database with other techniques to enable a zero downtime environment.
We’re also offering a great assessment offer to help you architect continuous availability into your IT stack – read on for more details.
We’re just back from exhibiting at both PASS and Ignite in the past few weeks. We talked to – albeit briefly – about 2100 people across both shows. We also had some fun with a ScaleArc t-shirt contest – when we spotted folks in our “Don’t get caught with your apps down” shirt, we handed out gift cards! You can see one lucky winner here.
ESPN made news headlines this past weekend – the bittersweet kind. Unfortunately, the news highlighted that ESPN’s fantasy football app was crashing, on the first Sunday of the NFL season. Where’s the “sweet” part? The crash likely signals a huge amount of user popularity.
We see these types of stories often during so-called “surge” events, like when Black Friday takes down a retailer. Why? Often, it’s the database that’s been swamped in the process.
Does SQL Server scalability top your system priority list? Have you been tasked with identifying ways to optimize your organization’s SQL Server database performance? If scaling out does not seem to be a feasible option, you can follow these six steps and make the scale-up process easy and effective for your enterprise:
Back when I was an analyst at META Group, we had a saying: See something once, it’s a data point. Twice, it’s something to watch. Three times, and it’s a trend. Well here at ScaleArc, we were definitely seeing a trend – conversations with customer after customer highlighted the challenges of meeting the expectations of today’s more demanding customers.
Can your business afford to lose $7,000 a minute? No business can. But, that’s exactly what data center downtime typically costs any business according to the findings of a study conducted by Data Center Dynamics. Downtime doesn’t just affect your bottom line; the impact is far-reaching and influences every aspect of your enterprise --right from purchasing and ERP to sales and CRM. Let’s take a look at some solid data surrounding the actual cost of downtime and the threats posed by unexpected system outages:
