The evolution of the Database - from Lotus 123 to the cloud
5 Steps to Bullet-proofing your Online Infrastructure
Just this morning, I’ve seen:
A news story by Wired on McDonald’s revenue troubles, with a comparison to Starbucks and the assertion that Starbucks’ mobile strategy accounts for its success. The article ends: “Mobile has changed people’s expectations to be served in context, in their moments of need.” Wow – classifying lattes as a need – would that fit in the love/belonging tier or up in self-actualization?
Social rants on Down Detector about gamers not being able to log into PlayStation. “WHY CANT THEY FIX THIS PROBLEM ALL I WANNA DO IS PLAY GTA 5 ONLINE!!!” reads a post I can actually quote without substituting #&%@ anywhere.
An animated gif of computer desk evolution, cleverly making visual the “there’s an app for that” meme. The gif shows a whole range of physical desktop items disappearing, substituted with app logos on a screen.
With SQL Server 2005 End of Support just six months away, a lot of organizations are scrambling to get their databases upgraded to SQL Server 2014.
Microsoft IT joined us on a webinar last week to share their lessons learned doing a SQL Server upgrade. Driven by their “Get Current, Stay Current” initiative, the staff running answers.microsoft.com upgraded from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2014.
The staff at CIO Magazine put together a great discussion at last week’s CIO Perspectives event in Chicago. We enjoyed the opportunity to talk to CIOs, VPs of infrastructure, and enterprise architects from United, Citi, SunGard, and Sears about how they’re evolving their infrastructure to enable IT to drive the business.
Our list of blue chip customers continues to grow, Gartner now recognized our market and our leadership position , and we are on a steady growth ramp….time to reflect back on our journey!
Technology is changing the way we live. It’s changing the structure of industries, creating new opportunities in the marketplace for innovation and competition, setting lofty expectations for customer experience, product and service delivery, and partner collaboration, and developing more efficient and powerful tools internally for an organization’s operations, supply-chain, sales, and marketing departments. The rise of the digital enterprise – the enterprise that uses technology as a competitive advantage – is the paramount factor in today’s data-driven economy. The organization, large or small, that can quickly and effectively access and utilize data to drive down cost and improve performance, will pull far ahead of the competition.
We were super excited to host Robert Scoble last month here at ScaleArc. A major influencer, Scoble is currently a tech evangelist at Rackspace, highlighting new startups and interesting technologies.
Call it our latest Sally Fields moment – ScaleArc and our SQL load balancing technology debuted in a Garter hype cycle! When you’re building a new kind of technology, it’s a major accomplishment to have Gartner call it critical to supporting IT uptime and highlight you as a prominent supplier.
I’m just returning from my first Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) and I have to say – wow. I’ve always been impressed with how great a partner Microsoft is for ScaleArc, but seeing the level of class and service Microsoft showed us partners all week really blew me away.
With a month to go before we end the first half of our fiscal year, I wanted to share some recent proof points on the establishment of the database load balancing market. We at ScaleArc have been working hard for several years to highlight the need for database load balancing, and we’re energized to see its momentum building – including with the addition of new great customers like NASDAQ!
Our eCommerce blog series covers key insights from conversations we’re having with ops staff at a range of leading eCommerce companies. Topics have included increasing uptime, improving the customer experience, and bullet-proofing eCommerce infrastructure. Here, we turn our attention to customer observations about how to scale for growth, the uses and limitations of load testing, and the role of the cloud in eCommerce companies.
ScaleArc is excited to announce today that we’re working with Cisco to create innovative cloud services to be delivered to customers via the Cisco Intercloud Marketplace. As enterprises look to leverage cloud services to increase agility and the pace of development, ScaleArc’s database load balancing software enhances the performance and availability of database services in the cloud.
