Subscription businesses need to be sure they invest correctly in performance and scalability to ensure customers have an engaging experience. You can spend your full ...

Today, DBAs who have traditionally managed relational database systems such as Oracle and SQL Server are also managing companies’ "non-relational" databases. As platforms such as MongoDB and Cassandra ...

In the past, the formula for scaling live production was simple: build bigger. Larger switchers, denser racks, and more powerful servers promised higher capacity and smoother performance. But in an ...

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While hyperconvergence and scale-out architectures have offered horizontal scaling for primary storage, it is now time to look at the benefits of horizontal scaling for secondary storage applications ...