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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePrepping 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAnother 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–...
View ArticleBetting 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...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 with ScaleArc – A Powerful Combination
Today Microsoft releases SQL Server 2016, the first version of the flagship database “born in the cloud,” since the company debuted SQL Server 2016 on Azure first. This latest release builds on the...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleBetting 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleEnabling 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticlePrepping 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleAcceleration Adoption of Azure SQL Database
The ScaleArc partnership with Microsoft just got even cozier, as today we announced we’ve integrated our software with Azure SQL Database. ScaleArc’s long enjoyed a tight partnership with Microsoft,...
View ArticleScaleArc 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...
View ArticleHelping 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...
View ArticleUsing 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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