A Guide to Automated Cloud Database Deployments
Complex, inflexible architectures, redundancy and out-of-date technology, are common problems for companies facing data to cloud migration. We look to the “clouds,” hoping that we will find there a magic solution to improve operational speed...
Benchmarking Managed PostgreSQL Cloud Solutions – Google Cloud: Part Three
In this 3rd part of Benchmarking Managed PostgreSQL Cloud Solutions, I took advantage of Google’s GCP free tier offering. It has been a worthwhile experience and as a sysadmin spending most of his time at...
Deploying Secure Multicloud MySQL Replication on AWS and GCP with VPN
Why Choose MySQL Replication? Some basics first about the replication technology. MySQL Replication is not complicated! It is easy to implement, monitor, and tune as there are various resources you can leverage - google being...
Benchmarking Managed PostgreSQL Cloud Solutions – Part One: Amazon Aurora
This blog starts a multi-series documenting my journey on benchmarking PostgreSQL in the cloud. The first part includes an overview of benchmarking tools, and kickstarts the fun with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. Selecting the PostgreSQL Cloud...
Deploying Cloud Databases with ClusterControl 1.6
ClusterControl 1.6 comes with tighter integration with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, so it is now possible to launch new instances and deploy MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and PostgreSQL directly from the ClusterControl user interface. In...
Cloud Database Features Comparison – Amazon RDS vs Google Cloud SQL
As more companies run their workloads in the cloud, cloud database services are increasingly being used to manage data. One of the advantages of using a cloud database service instead of maintaining your database is...
How to Make Your MySQL or MariaDB Database Highly Available on AWS and Google Cloud
Running databases on cloud infrastructure is getting increasingly popular these days. Although a cloud VM may not be as reliable as an enterprise-grade server, the main cloud providers offer a variety of tools to increase...
Webinar Replay: Severalnines & MariaDB Present: How to Manage MariaDB 10.2 With ClusterControl 1.5
As you might have seen in our recent announcement, ClusterControl now supports the latest versions of MariaDB, MySQL NDB Cluster and PostgreSQL
Announcing ClusterControl 1.5 – Featuring Automatic Backup Verification and Cloud Upload
Today we are excited to announce the 1.5 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source databases - and load balancers...
A Comparison of Cloud Providers
Running your infrastructure in the cloud gives you the possibility to start new projects and ramp up capacity within days, rather months or years - as can the case when you manage your own datacenter...
Cloud Lock-in and Open Source Databases
The cloud is no longer a question of if, but of when. Many IT leaders, however, find that one consistent barrier to their adoption of the cloud is vendor lock-in. What do you do when...