Tag: high availability

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Dave Provenza. We are happy to announce the launch of Redis Enterprise 5.4, the latest version of our high performance, in-memory database platform. The new version contains the following major enhancements: Redis 5.0 GA — Redis Streams Redis Streams, introduced  in Redis 5.0, is one of the most popular products today in the Redis ecosystem. Redis Streams is a new data type that models a log data structure in-memory and implements additional powerful operations, such as: A set of blocking operations allowing consumers to wait for new data added to a stream by producers. A concept ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mine Tokus. We are excited to share that a new, automated way to configure high availability solutions for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) is now available using our SQL VM resource provider. To get started today, follow the instructions in the table below. High availability architectures are designed to continue to function even when there are database, hardware, or network failures. Azure Virtual Machine instances using Premium Storage for all operating system disks and data disks offers 99.9 percent availability. This SLA is impacted by three scenarios – unplanned hardware maintenance, unexpected downtime, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Tom Tasker, EMEA Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWSThe most commonly used file shares have traditionally taken the form of dedicated and special purpose hardware in the datacenter, managed by storage specialists. The files are hosted, secured, and delivered either via Network File System (NFS) exports for Unix or Server Message Block (SMB) shares for Windows. In this post, we’ll take a look at a solution from SoftNAS, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner with the AWS Storage Competency. Their solution can consolidate file shares onto Amazon Web ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon EFS provides simple, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based workloads for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. Amazon EFS is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need – when they need it. It is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances, enabling your applications to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford.   1-Day Big Data Cloud Migration Workshop: This one-day workshop from Hashmap is for business and technical leaders and key stakeholders, and it's held at the client's facility. Receive guidance and assistance in defining services and the overall solution.   2-Week Azure Assessment: Assess your current datacenter environment (up to 100 VMs) and receive optimization recommendations for a cloud migration. An Azure architect from Catapult Systems will review the results of an assessment tool and provide recommendations.   3 Day Cloud Adoption Workshop: Black Marble's on-site cloud adoption workshop is free-form and wide-ranging, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Parikshit Savjani. Apache Airflow is an open source platform used to author, schedule, and monitor workflows. Airflow overcomes some of the limitations of the cron utility by providing an extensible framework that includes operators, programmable interface to author jobs, scalable distributed architecture, and rich tracking and monitoring capabilities. Since its addition to Apache foundation in 2015, Airflow has seen great adoption by the community for designing and orchestrating ETL pipelines and ML workflows. In Airflow, a workflow is defined as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), ensuring that the defined tasks are executed one after another ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Microsoft Connect(); 2018 On Tuesday, December 4th, Microsoft Connect(); 2018 provided a full day of developer-focused content—including updates on Azure and Visual Studio, keynotes, demos, and real-time coding with experts. Scott Guthrie’s keynote provided all the Azure and Visual Studio news on how you can stay productive and focus on what matters to you. Guthrie’s keynote was followed by a demo-packed session hosted by Scott Hanselman and friends that provided a full tour on how you can build your apps on Azure using best-in-class developer tools. The day continued with coding sessions hosted ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Since its inception, the Azure SQL Database offering has been evolving in order to accommodate a wide range of needs of its customers. This has resulted in two separate deployment models and pricing models, each with distinct tiers of service, representing unique performance and functionality characteristics. Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is the latest manifestation of this trend, targeting scenarios where the storage requirements exceed the current database size limit of 4 TB. In this article, I will describe its architecture and primary benefits. Initial implementation of Azure SQL Database was geared towards ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sundar Narasiman. By Satish Venkatesan, Sr. Director at CognizantBy Sundararajan Narasiman, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Dileep Hareendran, Sr. Architect at CognizantWhat if you could put a deep lens camera on a drone so you could search large areas hit by a hurricane and assess damage and speed relief? What if you could use machine learning embedded in smart home systems to monitor potentially dangerous situations and warn homeowners before an incident occurs? These are but two examples of what Cognizant’s InsuranceNext Innovation Lab works on every year with customers. In 2018, our ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. How we evaluated several third-party tools and ultimately selected Patroni as our preferred method.If you are working with a database, you already know that high availability (HA) is a requirement for any reliable system. A proper HA setup eliminates the problem of a single point-of-failure by providing multiple places to get the same data, and an automated way of selecting a proper location with which to read and write data. PostgreSQL typically achieves HA by replicating the data on the primary database to one or more read-only replicas.Streaming replication is the primary method of replication supported by ... Read More