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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under pressure to increase the speed of innovation in the digital space and outpace competitors, companies large and small are turning to the cloud. Moving to the cloud provides flexibility of infrastructure, ...

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 ...

The volume of transactions running through websites and mobile apps make customer-facing applications crucial to online businesses. If these applications perform well for their users, they generate revenue for the business. If ...

Backup, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) have all been a critical part of IT for more than 30 years—ever since we began relying on technology to run our businesses. Traditional ...

The IBM Domino environment was mostly replaced by Microsoft on-premises technology, then later replaced by the Microsoft Cloud Services. One thing that hasn’t been replaced is the need for administrators to have ...

IT operations teams can anticipate most periods of peak web traffic. The key to preventing outages and issues is to plan ahead. Here at BigPanda, we’ve prepared a checklist of the key ...

The popularity of the “serverless” term started to grow when Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014. Ever since, we’ve seen the term exponentially grow in use and reference, with more vendors entering ...

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 ...