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AWS and VMware Partner to Bring RDS for the Enterprise
At VMworld 2018, Amazon Web Services and VMware jointly announced a preview of AWS RDS, called RDS on VMware. The Relational Database Service will in the future be able to run on-premises using VMware...
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Database Replication is Hard
I can only feel sympathy for the team at GitHub, after they suffered an outage recently, due to issues with database replication. The problem was caused by a mere 43-second break in network...
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Databases are the next battleground for Public Cloud
This week, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of Amazon DocumentDB, a MongoDB-compatible document database. For AWS at least, the database market has been heating up recently. With so...
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Cloud Services – Build, Buy or Fork?
The subject of public cloud storage became a little more interesting this week with news that Google has acquired Elastifile, an Israeli start-up. Storage services in public cloud have been a busy...
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Managed Databases Require Managed Backup
Managed database platforms are becoming increasingly significant to cloud service providers as a way to deliver value-add and sticky services. The cloud service provider runs the database on behalf of...
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How to pick the right shared storage for modern databases
Gene Amdahl famously said that “the best I/O is the one you don’t have to do” and having experienced the challenges of building massive Oracle databases back in the 1990s, I agree. In today’s...
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Ondat Tops Kubernetes Database Performance Testing
In January 2021, we published a report in conjunction with Ondat that compared the relative performance of container-native storage solutions. This work used an industry-standard benchmark tool (fio)...
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Storage Predictions for 2023 and Beyond (Part V – Open Source)
Open Source has been a significant driver of the modern technology world, including software-defined storage. Will the open-source model be an ongoing threat to commercial software or just another way...
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Databases – The Fourth (Storage) Protocol?
We’re used to block, object and file as standard protocols or types for data storage. Could databases, or data structures, become a fourth protocol or data type that can be stored, retrieved, and...
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VAST Data Announces the VAST Data Platform
VAST Data recently announced the VAST Data Platform, a new solution based on the initial constructs of Universal Storage. What does this platform offer, and what market positioning does it represent...
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