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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

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Vendor Lock-in: What It Is and How To Avoid It

Percona

To determine whether that perception is warranted in the database software industry — and if so, how to avoid vendor lock-in pitfalls — let’s dig deeper. Vendor lock-in related to database software also conjures up perceptions of financial losses brought on by escalating licensing fees.

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Dynatrace Application Security protects your applications in complex cloud environments

Dynatrace

In our increasingly digital world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation. Is it exposed to the public Internet? Dynatrace news. Automate precise risk and impact assessment. Is sensitive data affected?

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Hybrid cloud infrastructure explained: Weighing the pros, cons, and complexities

Dynatrace

More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. Public cloud refers to on-demand infrastructure and services provided by a third party over the public internet. Dynatrace news. With public clouds, multiple organizations share resources.

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What Is a Workload in Cloud Computing

Scalegrid

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. What is workload in cloud computing? This opens up possibilities not only difficult but almost impossible to attain conventionally! Additionally.

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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

Containers are the key technical enablers for tremendously accelerated deployment and innovation cycles. Just as people use Xerox as shorthand for paper copies and say “Google” instead of internet search, Docker has become synonymous with containers. But first, some background. Why containers? What is Docker?