We’re happy to announce that our new whitepaper An Executive’s Guide to Database Management ROI is now available to download for free! This guide discusses the options available to IT leaders when bringing in open...

In my latest ClusterControl product demonstration video I show the latest features we have incorporated for ProxySQL, a highly flexible and versatile new load balancing technology. In this video we demonstrate… Deployment of ProxySQL for...

Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent webinar on High Availability in ProxySQL and on how to build a solid, scalable and manageable proxy layer using ProxySQL for highly available MySQL infrastructures. This second...

In this video Art van Scheppingen shows you how easy it is to add your Galera setups to ClusterControl. ClusterControl provides you with a single console to deploy, manage, monitor, and scale your Galera setups...

Unlike standard MySQL server and MySQL Cluster, the way to start a MySQL/MariaDB Galera Cluster is a bit different. Galera requires you to start a node in a cluster as a reference point, before the...

Cost analysis and cost effectiveness for databases are hardly ever performed, while it actually makes a lot of sense to perform such calculations. The easiest method of gaining insights into these is by performing a...

Running your infrastructure in the cloud gives you the possibility to start new projects and ramp up capacity within days, rather months or years - as can the case when you manage your own datacenter...

NinesControl is a new service from Severalnines which helps you deploy MySQL, Galera, and MongoDB clusters in the cloud. In this blog post we will show you how you can easily deploy and monitor your...

Database systems with large data sets or high throughput applications can challenge the capacity of a single database server. High query rates can exhaust CPU capacity, I/O resources, RAM or even network bandwidth. Horizontal scaling...

We’ve got your databases covered: check out our new pricing plans for ClusterControl, the single console to deploy, monitor and manage your entire database infrastructure. Whether you’re looking to manage standalone instances, need high availability...

MySQL Replication has become an essential component of scale-out architectures in LAMP environments. When there is a necessity to scale out, MySQL offers a multitude of solutions, the most common being to add read replicas....

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s webinar on ‘Become a MongoDB DBA’! Our colleague Art van Scheppingen presented from the perspective of a MySQL DBA who might be called to manage a MongoDB...