Not so long ago, the database industry consisted of a handful of vendors. Databases were mainly relational, and ran on single machines. High availability was implemented via active-standby ‘clusters’. With a vertical ’scale-up’ model, it...

As we wrap up 2018 and prepare for 2019 we decided it was time to take a moment and pause to think about the changes that have been happening over the past year and what...

If you’re looking at minimizing downtime and meet your SLAs through an automated or semi-automated approach, then this webinar replay is for you: A detailed overview of what failover processes may look like in MySQL,...

Queries have to be cached in every heavily loaded database, there is simply no way for a database to handle all traffic with reasonable performance. There are various mechanisms in which a query cache can...

It’s almost two months now since we released SCUMM (Severalnines ClusterControl Unified Management and Monitoring). SCUMM utilizes Prometheus as the underlying method to gather time series data from exporters running on database instances and load...

Offsite backup storage should be a critical part of any organisation’s disaster recovery plan. The ability to store data in a separate physical location, where it could survive a catastrophic event which destroys all the...

We usually take care of things we value, whether it is an expensive smartphone or the company’s servers. Data is one of the most important assets of the organisation, and although we do not see...

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s webinar on ‘Backup Management with ClusterControl’. The replay is now available to watch online as well as the slide deck. If you feel frustrated by traditional, labour-intensive...

Securing your data is one of the most important tasks that we should prioritize. The emergence of regulations that requires security compliance such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, or PHI requires that your data should...

Severalnines was pleased to yet again sponsor Percona Live Europe which was held this year in Frankfurt, Germany. Thanks to the Percona Team for having us and the great organisation. At the Conference Severalnines team...

ClusterControl’s centralized backup management feature supports the standard mysqldump, Percona Xtrabackup backup and Mariabackup provided by MariaDB. We believe the chosen command line arguments for the respective methods are optimal for most database workloads, and...

Backups - one of the most important things to take care of while managing databases. It is said there are two types of people - those who backup their data and those who will backup...