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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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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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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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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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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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Cardiac Monitoring – Never Missing a Beat with ScaleArc
Sometimes I shake my head at the gadgets you can connect to the Internet these days. A basketball that tracks your shooting arc? A ”smart” fork that records your eating speed? No thanks. But wearable...
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ScaleArc Uptime Hero – Enabling Zero Downtime for eCommerce on Black Friday
As much fun as it is to meet a new customer, I really love spending time with customers we’ve had for years. I got to do that last week – visiting with Craig Thayer, CTO at eCommerce provider Sazze,...
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Percona Live 2016: Talking Database Abstraction and Cloud
I spent most of last week in the Expo Hall talking with attendees and learning more about problems they are trying to solve. They represent companies like: TiVo, Shopify, Gameloft, and Workday. As we...
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Webinar Recap – Improving App Uptime: Tips from MVP David Klee + Customer...
Application availability is an “across the stack” problem – straddling the app tier, database, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure. DBAs, IT ops, and architects must do more to improve app...
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New From ScaleArc - the Resiliency of AlwaysOn Now Available on Standard Edition
Here at ScaleArc, we've made our mark in delivering zero downtime for apps in a database environment. We're proud to announce that our latest release of ScaleArc for SQL Server extends our secret...
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SQL 2016 Launch – A Revealing Moment
Last week, Microsoft invited ScaleArc to join the conversation at a few SQL Server 2016 launch events. The discussions were great–highlighting the new capabilities in SQL Server 2016, talking about...
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