When Bad Things Happen to Good Clouds: Why You Need a Recovery Plan
Amazon S3 storage service recently experienced a widespread five-hour outage in its East Coast availability zone. Many next-generation consumer and business applications rely on a cloud storage, so the S3 outage quickly ...
Backup: Not So Easy in Certain Environments
We discussed how backup needs to be reinvented for a new era cloud-native applications, and what you should look for in a modern database backup and recovery solution. But even if you ...
Why Reinvent Deduplication? Isn’t Cloud Storage Cheap?
Most people assume cloud storage is cheaper than on-premises storage. After all, why wouldn’t they? You can rent object storage for $276 per terabyte per year or less, depending on your performance ...
Protecting Data in Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud
Backup, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) have all been a critical part of IT for over 30 years—ever since we began relying on technology to run our businesses. Traditional solutions ...
Evolving Data Requirements in Multi-Cloud Environments
By design or by accident, multi-cloud is a reality that most enterprise IT teams have to cope with today. Multi-cloud (or, cross-cloud, as Dell EMC calls it) refers to an IT model ...
Multi-Cloud: The Danger of Data Lock-In
Enterprises rarely think about cloud portability issues before transferring large amounts of data onto a cloud service provider such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform. They were likely to ...
MongoDB Atlas: One Giant Leap, But More Steps Needed
Atlas, holding up your databases in the cloud. I'm not sure if that’s what MongoDB was going for, but I personally like the analogy. At MongoDB World’16, MongoDB announced Atlas, a database-as-a-service ...
Backup and Recovery of MongoDB, Part 2
This blog is the second in a two-part series on backup and recovery for MongoDB. In one of my previous blogs, I covered why companies require both replication and backup for enterprise ...
Using MongoDB for a Product Catalog Application
In today’s era of data-driven business, enterprises are continuously adopting new technologies to gain a competitive advantage. Distributed and cloud databases is one such technology. These databases are fundamentally different from relational ...
Backup and Recovery of Next Gen Apps in MongoDB
This blog is the first in a two-part series about MongoDB backup and recovery. In this first part, I will discuss the motivations for protecting data that resides on MongoDB and the ...
