Organizations around the world were unprepared for COVID-19's impact. Severalnines helps companies stay prepared when crisis strikes with their end-to-end disaster recovery solutions. If the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us anything, it’s that it is...

MariaDB Enterprise Backup is a backup solution from MariaDB Corporation with a number of features such as non-blocking backups, full backup, incremental backup, partial backup and Point in Time Recovery. We often get questions about...

If you are new to PostgreSQL the most common challenge you face is about how to tune up your database environment.  When PostgreSQL is installed it automatically produces a basic postgresql.conf file. This configuration file...

With the current COVID-19 situation ongoing, plenty of people have started to work from home. Among those are people whose job is to manage database systems. The lockdowns which have been announced all over the...

We’re excited to announce the 1.7.6 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure.  This new edition expands our commitment to cloud...

A bastion host is a gateway host between an inside network and an outside network. It is commonly used to access remote hosts sitting on a different network which has no direct connection between the...

Database monitoring is a key function for Database Administrators (DBA). With a proper monitoring platform, you can know immediately if there is something wrong with the system.  Should your DBA be unavailable and you may...

The alarming nature of COVID-19 is being felt globally. Many companies have closed or filed bankruptcy because of the global pandemic.  Most organizations did not see this coming. Large companies have a better chance of...

The day happened when your database administrator did not show up on the daily online standup. Shortly after you have learned that he’ll be unavailable for an unknown period of time and it is you,...

Using a Load Balancer is a good idea for any database technology, as you can redirect applications to the available or healthy database nodes and even distribute the traffic across multiple servers to improve performance....

Backups are the means of protecting from data loss - should something happen, you can easily restore it from the backup. You cannot predict what part of the data will have to be restored -...

Database security requires careful planning, but it is important to remember that security is not a state, it is a process. Once the database is in place, monitoring, alerting and reporting on changes are an...