What is Hyperconvergence in a Private Cloud?
In recent years, the term "hyper-convergence" has emerged and steadily disrupting the enterprise IT markets with its extreme simplicity. Old-fashioned solutions are being challenged all over the enterprise world by a new breed of intelligent...
How to Achieve High Availability with a DBaaS Provider
One of the responsibilities of a Cloud Provider who offers a DBaaS (Database as a Service) solution is to give you a way to achieve High Availability without using a different provider. The main advantage...
Video: Database Disaster Recovery with ClusterControl
This past week we debuted a series of videos on database disaster recovery. From basic backup and restore, to switchover & failover, to full cluster-to-cluster replication, these videos show how ClusterControl offers you end-to-end protection...
Avoiding Cloud Lock-in with a DBaaS Provider
As companies move more of their infrastructure to the cloud, they become increasingly reliant on cloud vendors. From an engineering perspective, IT’s focus is on building solutions for the business and ensuring a fast rollout...
The Top Five DBaaS Providers for Open Source Databases
These are, in our opinion, the top five DBaaS providers on the market. Each provides support for various types of open source databases. It is inevitable that the cloud tech giants (e.g. Amazon, Google, and...
Common Mistakes Made When Building an On-Premises Private Cloud Infrastructure
A private cloud is a scalable hosting solution that provides agility and redundancy of IT infrastructure for your enterprise. Private cloud solutions are suitable for enterprises that have large compute and storage requirements, need to...
Things to Consider When Building an Internal or Private DBaaS
In one of the previous blogs we discussed a possible DBaaS environment built with ClusterControl as the deployment and management platform for the databases. Today we would like to take a closer look at that...
Understanding the DBaaS Architecture
What is a DBaaS? The current trend for DBaaS or Database-as-a-Service and its terminology have grown so much that even its nomenclature also are termed as a cloud database or a managed-service database service. Technically...
Building Your Own Private DBaaS with ClusterControl
As we explained in one of our blogs, DBaaS are powerful tools for the users that require a database for their purposes. This can be a developer that spins up database clusters for their applications,...
What is a DBaaS?
Cloud computing introduced many new concepts that nowadays it is pretty common to hear in all companies like IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), SaaS (Software as a Service), or DBaaS (Database as a Service), and...
An Overview of the New DBaaS from MariaDB – SkySQL
MariaDB has recently launched its new DBaaS offering, SkySQL. It might be a surprise to some, but this has been an anticipated move from MariaDB as they have been actively pushing state of the art...
Multi-Cloud Galera Cluster on AWS and Azure via Asynchronous Replication
In this blog post, we are going to set up two Galera-based Clusters running on Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7, one for the production and one for the disaster recovery (DR). We will use ClusterControl to...