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Today’s Requirement: Delivering Continuous App Availability
Late last week, we hosted a webinar with our SI partner Pragmatic works to discuss how to architect for Continuous Availability. The audience asked a ton of great questions about the role of a modern...
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Digital Transformation – Making it a Reality, At Last
In today’s world, Digital Transformation is the driving force behind business and remains at the top of every CEO/CIO/CTO’s priority list. What does Digital Transformation really mean to applications...
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Augment Amazon Aurora with Auto Scale Out, Seamless Failover
As the AWS Re:Invent show kicks off today, ScaleArc is excited to announce an upgrade to our software that delivers compatibility with Amazon Aurora. The updated software extends the capabilities of...
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Another Black Friday, Another eCommerce Meltdown
Black Friday. Retailers know it's coming every year, and still – every year – someone has a spectacular failure. This year Macy's gets top billing – asking customers to wait to shop. Since 500...
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We won! We won! ScaleArc a “Trend-setting Product” for 2017
Even after shipping product for four years and winning customers like Nasdaq, Dell, and Microsoft, we here at ScaleArc still really love it when we win industry awards! This week, the recognition comes...
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Holiday Horror Fears – Survey Finds High Concern over Airline Site Downtime
As people all over the globe get ready to visit family during the holidays, ScaleArc’s latest survey shows many Americans fear that airline database downtime could mean they lose time with loved ones...
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Recognizing Heroes
“Getting this award is quite the honor – you guys made me look good!” So says our latest Uptime Hero, Michael Atkins, director of IT operations for DealerSocket. But he’s got it backwards – he and his...
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ScaleArc Gives Back – Realizing a Long-standing Goal
Just last week we launched our ScaleArc Gives Back program, realizing a goal I’ve held during my time here at ScaleArc. A few years back, I enjoyed a passionate conversation over lunch with a small...
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2017 Prediction: The Death of DR
Enterprises have spent billions of dollars and decades of time honing their Disaster Recovery (DR) plans and processes – 2017 will be the year that DR will die. How could such a central tenet of IT...
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Surviving the “Trump Effect”
As President Trump begins his administration, he continues to use a variety of channels to send messages about his thoughts and plans. These can take many forms – tweets, Executive Orders, even...
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The Chief Data Officer – The Next Great IT Role or a Sign of Failure?
I’m just back from Gartner’s Data and Analytics conference this week, and Gartner analysts spent the week making a passionate case for the critical role of the Chief Data Officer or CDO. This opinion...
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The Hidden Cost of “Dark” DR
For decades, Disaster Recovery (DR) has dominated the landscape as the best architecture for business continuity. The problem is, DR expects you to have a disaster, and then to recover from that...
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Prepping for Black Friday Success
It’s that time of year again, when the IT staff at eCommerce companies is staring down a looming deadline – get the infrastructure ready for the Black Friday surge in the next few months or risk the...
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The UK’s NHS – Leveraging Azure and ScaleArc for Easy Scale, Zero Downtime
England’s National Health Service generates some amazing stats:world’s largest and oldest single-payer healthcare systememploys 1.5 million peoplehelps more than 1 million patients every 36 hours NHS...
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Another Day, Another Award for ScaleArc!
We did it again! The ScaleArc software has repeatedly earned kudos in the industry, from our customers, from Gartner, and from industry press. Today we announced our software won a Gold Stevie® Award–...
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A Power Outage? BA Has a Lot of Explaining to Do
The massive flight cancellations and delays at British Airways, and resulting haircut on the stock price of its parent company, highlight people’s intolerance for digital disruption these days. The...
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Betting on Black Friday Bedlam
Every year, multiple retailers duke it out for worst outage of the online holiday shopping season. This year, as ScaleArc has already started working with clients on prepping for the Black Friday...
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More Accolades for ScaleArc: “Most Innovative IT Software”
ScaleArc has done it again, with its software taking Gold in the 12th Annual 2017 IT World Awards. The company announced today that its software for Amazon Aurora took top honors in the Most...
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Enabling IOT Scale with No Code Changes
ScaleArc customer Sixgill faces a tough data challenge – how do you scale your infrastructure to handle millions of new inputs, driven by location-based marketing at global events like the Rugby World...
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Why the Cloud is Not Your White Knight
Every organization is looking at how to leverage the cloud, and its promise of simplicity is enticing. The reality, though, is that it’ll take some work to enjoy the benefits of elasticity and...
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Prepping for Black Friday? You’re Late!
Online retailers are expecting the biggest holiday shopping period ever this year, and we’ve all seen the impact on local malls, with retailers like Gymboree, Lane Bryant and Michael Kors closing...
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More ScaleArc Magic – Speeding up Apps with Wrapped Transactions
A lot of applications are coded in a way that inhibits performance when you pair them with modern, scaled out databases. What’s the problem? It’s called wrapped transactions. And ScaleArc just solved...
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ScaleArc on Google – Hitting the Cloud Trifecta
AWS, Azure, and now Google! ScaleArc now supports all three of the leading cloud platforms. We’re super excited that ScaleArc’s software for enabling continuous availability and simplifying the move...
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Helping Inmates Stay Connected to Family
Today, ScaleArc shared the news that Telmate, which provides video and phone communications for inmates, relies on ScaleArc to improve uptime and performance for its teleconferencing services.Research...
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Using AlwaysOn... Except Not Really - Observations from Ignite and PASS
We’re just back from exhibiting at both PASS and Ignite in the past few weeks. We talked to – albeit briefly – about 2100 people across both shows. We also had some fun with a ScaleArc t-shirt contest...
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