Multi-cloud environments are a very good solution to implement disaster recovery and very high level of high availability. They help to ensure that even a full outage of a whole region of one cloud provider...

In recent years, the use of platform infrastructure has shifted from on-premise to cloud computing. This is based on the absence of cost capital costs that must be incurred by the company if used when...

Multi-cloud deployments of open source databases require considerations such as high availability, scalability, resiliency, backups, and disaster recovery. In this blog, we will emphasize the importance of database backups in the cloud which provide you...

In this blog post, we are going to look into how to deploy a MariaDB replication setup in a multi-cloud environment. Suppose our primary application is located at AWS, it's the best idea to set...

Failover is the ability of a system to continue working even if some failure occurs. It suggests that the functions of the system are assumed by secondary components if the primary components fail or if...

Replication lag is an inevitable occurrence for multi-cloud database deployments, as it causes delays of transactions to reflect into the target node or cluster. When implementing a multi-cloud database deployment, the most common scenario (and...

Using a multi-cloud or multi-datacenter environment is useful for geo-distributed topologies or even for a disaster recovery plan, and actually, it is becoming more popular nowadays, therefore the concept of split-brain is also becoming more...

These days databases spanning across multiple clouds are quite common. They promise high availability and possibility to easily implement disaster recovery procedures. They are also a method to avoid vendor lock-in: if you design your...

Having a backup plan is a must when running a database in production. Running a backup every day, however, can eventually lead to an excess of backup storage space, especially when running on premises.  One...

High availability is paramount in today's business reality. But every service provider comes with an inherited risk of disruption -- and cloud service providers are no different. If they go down, even temporarily, then so...

A multi-cloud environment is a good option for a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), but it can be a time-consuming task as you need to configure the connectivity between the different cloud providers and you will...

During the recent 24-hour Percona Live, multi-cloud was regularly one of the key topics. This is just another key indicator of the trend of many organizations who are switching their architectures or expanding their businesses...