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Black Friday Traffic Spike is No Problem For Dell.com
I’m excited! I recently ordered a Dell XPS 8900 desktop online. Yes, I was one of the 100 million plus online shoppers who braved cyberspace to take advantage of the traditional Black Friday super...
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Gartner Data Center Conference – Key Takeaways on Enterprise-Defined Data Center
Last week, the research analyst firm Gartner hosted its largest conference focused on the data center. In a series of blogs I’ll be writing over the next few weeks, I’ll recap some of the key takeaways...
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The History of Databases
When I’m talking about database architecture and the benefits ScaleArc brings to data flow, I often find myself reflecting on the history of databases; how they got started, what they used to be, and...
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ScaleArc – A “Space Oddity” with $20M of New Funding
2016 is off to a rockin’ start with the closing of our $20 million Series C funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from all of our existing investors including Accel Partners,...
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Preparing Your eCommerce Site for Year-round Events
By all accounts, last year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday were a huge success for online etailers. Those companies that kept their eCommerce site up under extreme loads won big while others folded or...
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The New Microsoft – A Great Partner
On Wednesday, I was on stage with Judson Althoff, President of Microsoft in the US, for the company’s North America Q3 All Hands meeting. What a fantastic venue and discussion! In front of about...
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Webscale – Coming to a Database Near You
Digital transformation. Software-defined business. All companies are software companies. Webscale IT. We have lots of ways of talking about the reality today that companies must have IT people and...
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Black Friday Failures - Tips for Avoiding the Nightmare
By all accounts, last year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday were a huge success for online etailers. Those companies that kept their eCommerce sites up under extreme loads won big while others folded...
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How to Build a Webscale Data Center
One of the best parts of my job is hearing how the IT leaders in our customer base are succeeding in delivering non-stop operations for their companies’ most vital apps. They serve many different...
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Dell.com – A Case Study in Building for Zero Downtime
Dell.com has relied on the ScaleArc software for its eCommerce infrastructure for several years – initially to support Black Friday surges and now for zero downtime all year round. In this new video,...
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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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