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Backup: Not So Easy in Certain Environments

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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 scrap the traditional approach to back up and write scripts to handle the task, backup and recovery of next-generation applications and databases (Apache […]

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 […]

Don’t Be Samsung: Here’s How You Can Protect Yourself

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Imagine a factory building 100,000 units a day, and you can see how a small error can have huge consequences. Now imagine that factory is a database. The world’s top smartphone maker this month pulled the plug on its $882 Galaxy Note 7 after phones overheated and caught fire, concluding in a disastrous recall for […]

DataOps: Time to Bring DevOps Ideas to Big Data

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What can data scientists learn from DevOps? A lot, actually. By applying DevOps principles to the world of big data, you get DataOps, which streamlines data analytics. If you’re reading this site, you’re probably already familiar with DevOps. The DevOps philosophy emphasizes continuous collaboration between software developers (the “dev” people) and system admins (the operations, […]

Backup and Recovery for Distributed Databases

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Over the past five years, applications have undergone a paradigm shift. They now require more agility, scalability and availability. The key trends in this era are driven by the use of social platforms, mobile devices and software as a service (SaaS). Being able to ingest large amounts of data from various sources and process that data in […]

DDoS Defense: Can You Tell Friend from Foe?

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In many organizations, networks are at the core of the business, enabling not only internal functions such as human resources, supply chain and finance, but also the services and transactions the business depends on for revenue. That makes network availability critical. Any interruption of access from the outside world turns off the revenue spigot, impacting […]

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 […]

Useful Big Data Terminologies, Part 1

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As data continues to increase at an evermore rapid pace, organizations struggle to deal with this data torrent, let alone use it to analyze and capture value. The ways used to understand this big data also is increasingly rapidly, which introduces myriad terms used to define these methods. The follow is an attempt to provide […]