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Enhancing Database Services on the Cisco Intercloud
ScaleArc is excited to announce today that we’re working with Cisco to create innovative cloud services to be delivered to customers via the Cisco Intercloud Marketplace. As enterprises look to...
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eCommerce Readiness – Scaling, Load Testing, and the Cloud
Our eCommerce blog series covers key insights from conversations we’re having with ops staff at a range of leading eCommerce companies. Topics have included increasing uptime, improving the customer...
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Customer *and Market* Reflections
With a month to go before we end the first half of our fiscal year, I wanted to share some recent proof points on the establishment of the database load balancing market. We at ScaleArc have been...
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Feeling the Microsoft Love at WPC
I’m just returning from my first Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) and I have to say – wow. I’ve always been impressed with how great a partner Microsoft is for ScaleArc, but seeing the...
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Gartner Likes Us – They Really Like Us!
Call it our latest Sally Fields moment– ScaleArc and our SQL load balancing technology debuted in a Garter hype cycle! When you’re building a new kind of technology, it’s a major accomplishment to have...
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Shark Tank, Making Money off Data, and the CAP Theorem – a Day with Robert...
We were super excited to host Robert Scoble last month here at ScaleArc. A major influencer, Scoble is currently a tech evangelist at Rackspace, highlighting new startups and interesting technologies....
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Data and the Rise of the Digital Enterprise
Our list of blue chip customers continues to grow, Gartner now recognized our market and our leadership position , and we are on a steady growth ramp….time to reflect back on our journey! Technology is...
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“I do rogue IT, but I do it transparently” – New Realities for Today’s CIO
The staff at CIO Magazine put together a great discussion at last week’s CIO Perspectives event in Chicago. We enjoyed the opportunity to talk to CIOs, VPs of infrastructure, and enterprise architects...
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SQL Server Upgrade – Video Case Study
With SQL Server 2005 End of Support just six months away, a lot of organizations are scrambling to get their databases upgraded to SQL Server 2014. Microsoft IT joined us on a webinar last week to...
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McDonald’s, PlayStation, and a Desk – The Humor and Fallacy of #YouHadOneJob
Just this morning, I’ve seen:A news story by Wired on McDonald’s revenue troubles, with a comparison to Starbucks and the assertion that Starbucks’ mobile strategy accounts for its success. The...
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More Gartner Kudos for ScaleArc
This week Gartner published its Magic Quadrant on Application Delivery Controllers– what many customers call web load balancers. Gartner called out ScaleArc as one of the “Other Players” in this...
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ScaleArc’s most recent conversation with DevOps’ Alan Shimel: Try everything...
ScaleArc Founder and CTO Varun Singh recently had the chance to chat with DevOps.com Editor-in-chief Alan Shimel – the result was a fascinating mind-meld of two highly diverse and accomplished...
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Are You an Uptime Hero?
App downtime can come from lots of sources, but ScaleArc is working really hard to make sure databases aren’t one of them. Along the way, we’ve identified some amazing operations and other IT staffers...
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Architecting for Zero Downtime at zulily
I recently had an opportunity to hear Don Allen discuss with other IT peers some best practices on architecting for zero downtime in database environments. Don’s company, zulily, is an eCommerce...
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Get Ready. The New Normal is Non-stop IT.
Not too long ago your IT department was a cost center. But now it’s not just central to your business, it’s your lifeblood. And if it’s done right – IT, and the technology deployed by the IT...
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Is Database Vulnerability your Dirty Little Secret?
I tell anyone who will listen how databases are the often-overlooked weak spot in app and website availability. I’ve talked to a dozen e-Commerce execs who start our conversations with “We don’t have a...
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Why Databases Will Never Solve App Uptime Alone
Database vendors have been attempting to create transparent auto failover capabilities in their database software for decades, to enable zero downtime on mission-critical transactional apps for OLTP...
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PASS Highlights: SQL Server + ScaleArc = Better Together
I’m just back from a great week at PASS. Four crazy busy days and hundreds of conversations. I wasn’t alone in feeling exhausted or really behind on e-mail – you could find folks sleeping on bean bags...
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ScaleArc’s First Uptime Hero – Mouser Electronics
I’ve said for years – the best part of my job is meeting amazing customers. After several months of phone conversations, I got to meet in person one such remarkable customer – Mark Price at Mouser...
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Another Black Friday, Another Record Broken – Thanks, ScaleArc!
Black Friday is the Super Bowl for eCommerce. Every Thanksgiving weekend, while our families are eating leftovers and watching football, our whole Ops team is huddled in a back room fighting fires to...
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