In the previous posts of this blog series, we covered deployment of clustering/replication (MySQL / Galera, MySQL Replication, MongoDB & PostgreSQL), management & monitoring of your existing databases and clusters, performance monitoring and health, how...

Watch and listen to Laurent Blume, Unix Systems Engineer & PCI Specialist and Vinay Joosery, CEO at Severalnines, as they discuss all there is to know about how to achieve PCI compliance for MySQL &...

In our previous blog post, we showed you how you can secure your open source databases with ClusterControl. But what about the ClusterControl server itself? How do we secure it? This will be the topic...

Requires ClusterControl 1.2.11 or later. Applies to MySQL based clusters. During the life cycle of Database installation it is common that new user accounts are created. It is a good practice to once in a...

Security is one of the most important aspects of running a database. Whether you are a developer or a DBA, if you are managing the database, it is your responsibility to safeguard your data and...

We’ve almost become desensitized to the news. It seems that every other day there is a data breach at a major enterprise resulting in confidential customer information being stolen and sold to the highest bidder....

What better way to start a new year than with a new product release? Today we are excited to announce the 1.5.1 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily...

There are several ways to get ClusterControl installed on your database infrastructure, as described in the ClusterControl Getting Started page. One simple way is to use an installation script, install-cc.sh. This script automates the whole...

With 2017 quickly coming to a close and 2018 looming on the horizon we wanted to take a minute and reflect on what’s been happening in our industry in the past year and what we...

Our clients are the lifeblood of Severalnines, not only because they fund our product development, but they are also our testers, our roadmap advisors and our partners in technology… pushing the limits of high availability...

The picture below was taken in February of this year during our annual company meeting in Lisbon, Portugal; and while the picture was instigated by the author of this blog (I am in marketing after...

With four major releases in 2017 ClusterControl is better than ever at supporting your MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB & PostgreSQL environments. When thinking about the features and functions released in 2017 three main themes emerge… Delivering...