Michael Colby

Michael Colby is a Systems Engineer at Datos IO. He has experience as a Competitive Analyst, working on Sales Enablement, with a focus on Networking, Storage and Backup. Previously he was at IBM, Cisco, Netapp, Data Domain/EMC and Nimble Storage.

How Are You Getting Your Cloud On?

June 1, 2017 | cloud, cloud bursting, data lake, disaster recovery, mobile apps, multicloud, test/dev, web apps

With 71 percent of CIOs report having a cloud-first strategy, it’s clear enterprises are doing something. But it’s also clear that no two organizations are in the same place. While some organizations ...

The Top 10 Reasons to Use Cassandra

April 13, 2017 | apache, Apache Cassandra, Cassandra, data set, DataStax, enterprise applications, fault tolerance, integration, monitoring, open source

The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice of database if you are looking for scalability and high availability without compromising performance for your mission-critical applications. Additionally, Cassandra’s support for replicating across ...

Replication: Complementing Disaster Recovery, not Replacing

April 11, 2017 | continuous data protection, data, data corruption, disaster recovery, DR, DR plan, replication

Many people believe that replicating a distributed database is a replacement for having a solid disaster recovery (DR) plan or backup system. While there are certainly elements of truth to this, it ...