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Evolving Data Requirements in Multi-Cloud Environments

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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 where an organization uses services of one or more public cloud service providers, sometimes in addition to using its own data centers. In […]

The Cost of Rework when Developing for OpenStack Clouds

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According to the 2016 State of DevOps Report by Puppet and DORA, the mean time to recover when a service incident occurs ranges from less than one hour for high IT performers to less than one day for medium and low IT performers. Put that in a real-world scenario: your OpenStack application and the data […]

Things to Know When Planning for Cassandra Backup

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NoSQL databases such as Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure DocumentDB and others are being adopted by enterprises to meet the data requirements of next-generation applications. Specifically, Apache Cassandra database provides linear scalability, a flexible consistency model and shared-nothing architecture that enables enterprises to scale their database footprint according to performance needs. As mission-critical applications […]

Backup and Recovery of Next Gen Apps in MongoDB

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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 existing backup and recovery solutions. In the second part, I will discuss how to solve this problem. In the era of big data, […]

Why Legacy Backup Solutions Aren’t Ideal for OpenStack

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Our team has recently returned from the OpenStack Summit in Austin. While there were many hot topics, we discovered people fell within two camps when it comes to backup and recovery: those who understand why a native OpenStack solution is required, and those who question why legacy backup and recovery won’t fit the bill. I […]