Tag: high availability

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Andrej Walilko; Getting ready for another server migration and unsure of what steps you need to take? If your website or application is changing or growing over the months and years, then it is nearly inevitable that at some point you’ll need to change servers. When the time comes, be prepared with the following guide on preparing your server and team for migration day and beyond. What is a Server Migration? A server migration is the term used to describe copying or moving critical data from one server to another, as well as configuring that target ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Continuent; Run highly available MySQL database clusters in the AWS cloud from as little as $0.70 per node / per hour with the new Tungsten Cluster (AMI) Continuent is pleased to announce the availability of our new Tungsten Cluster (AMI) - the complete continuous operations solution for MySQL database clusters - on the AWS Marketplace! What Is It? The Continuent Tungsten Cluster (AMI) is a complete, fully-integrated, fully-tested MySQL HA, DR and geo-clustering solution on the AWS Marketplace for business-critical MySQL, MariaDB, & Percona Server applications. It includes all of the features and benefits provided by ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Continuent; Cloud-Based Active/Active Tungsten MySQL Clusters @ Bluefin Payments Please join us on Wednesday September 30th at 10am PT for a discussion about geo-distributed active/active MySQL replication for Financial Services SaaS Providers based on a case study of Continuent customer Bluefin Payments, and on how to guarantee credit card transaction availability with geo-distributed Tungsten MySQL clusters. Financial Services typically require two or more active data centers to provide their customers with continuous availability along with quick response times. Bluefin Payments uses co-located data centers with active/active replication between each MySQL cluster, which provides a complete, local ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Percy Mohale. T-Digital, a division of Tshwane University Technology Enterprise Holding (TUTEH) in South Africa, built TRes, a digital platform for students living in student housing and for accommodation providers. TRes connects students with available housing and verified and authorized property owners. It addresses student accommodation needs and helps verified and approved property owners fully allocate their residences, while alleviating administrative burden. The platform aims to create ongoing interaction between students, accommodation providers, and university administrators.With help from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services, T-Digital experienced flexibility, agility, and realized cost savings. Read on ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Ben Peven. This post was contributed by Dnyanesh Digraskar, Senior Partner SA, High Performance Computing; Linda Hedges, Principal SA, High Performance ComputingIn this blog, we define and demonstrate the scalability metrics for a typical real-world application using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software from Siemens, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, running on a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This scenario demonstrates the scaling of an external aerodynamics CFD case with 97 million cells to over 4,000 cores of Amazon EC2 C5n.18xlarge instances using the Simcenter STAR-CCM+ software. We also discuss the effects of scaling ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Néstor Gándara. By Néstor Gándara, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Piyush Agarwal, AWS Ambassador at VirtusaVirtusa recently assisted a provider-sponsored health insurance company that insures 1.2 million members in New York City and downstate New York in migrating their Pega 7.2 environment on Pega Cloud to Pega 8.4 on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Over the past several years, Virtusa’s client has been leveraging Pega’s cloud services to develop and operate production Pega applications. With the continued development and growth of the applications and data in a large single environment, it became overly difficult ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Sergey Lukyanchikov. InterSystems IRIS – the All-Purpose Universal Platform for Real-Time AI/ML Author: Sergey Lukyanchikov Challenges of real-time AI/ML computations We will start from the examples that we faced as Data Science practice at InterSystems: A “high-load” customer portal is integrated with an online recommendation system. The plan is to reconfigure promo campaigns at the level of the entire retail network (we will assume that instead of a “flat” promo campaign master there will be used a “segment-tactic” matrix). What will happen to the recommender mechanisms? What will happen to data ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Duncan Garcia; Earlier this month, we announced the launch of Cloud Servers. The public cloud computing global market will most likely exceed $330 billion in 2020, according to Hosting Tribunal. Many growing MSPs and emerging enterprises are seeking the benefits that public cloud poses, while not breaking the bank or losing the support they require. For customers requiring more uptime, faster deployments, easy-to-scale resources, and 24/7/365 support, Cloud Server is the perfect solution. What is a Cloud Server? Cloud Server is a high availability and redundant multi-tenant Cloud solution. Cloud Servers are built for customers that ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Confluence Data Center Implementation is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Cprime, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Confluence Data Center Implementation delivers the Confluence Data Center on AWS Quick Start giving you high availability, performance at scale, and disaster recovery for uninterrupted access to Confluence for all your teams. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a customized configuration and deployment of the Confluence Data Center on AWS Quick Start as well as cost optimization and training ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Peter Friedenbach. What we tested: Relative performance of MariaDB vs MySQLHow we tested: Multi-statement, transaction processing workload (Sysbench 90:10)Where we tested: Amazon AWS EC2 and RDS, large to 12xlarge instancesWhat we conclude: MariaDB provides superior performance on commodity cloud hardware for real business workloads. Looking back in MariaDB Server’s family tree, we find its ancestor, MySQL Server. MariaDB Community Server and MySQL Server Community Edition, both Open Source, have over the years been packaged for many of the same Linux distributions, powering application stacks behind hundreds of popular websites and applications. And both are available in ... Read More