The fundamental principle of cloud systems is a focus on multiple, disposable, and replaceable machines. This has direct consequences for the implementation techniques, and therefore the capabilities ...

Database administration includes responsibility for ensuring the ongoing operational functionality and efficiency of an organization’s databases and the applications that access those databases.

A distributed cloud database is a database in which operational data is spread across different physical locations—for example, across different data centers, across hybrid clouds (such as private and ...

As cloud computing matures there’s no doubt that much more emphasis will be placed on the elasticity of the data deployed across global networks of cloud computing platforms. Today, what we have are ...

Today’s enterprises continue to invest aggressively in “cloud-first” strategies and architectures. All industries and verticals are adopting cloud services across all layers of cloud deployment models ...

A new class of workloads is emerging in the cloud. Early cloud was all about infrastructure-as-a-service — spinning up storage, compute and networking resources to support startups, application ...

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

Let’s talk about Oracle’s successful and expanding investment in cloud infrastructure. The company just celebrated its 45th anniversary, beat Wall Street’s estimated revenue in its fiscal fourth ...

The success of generative artificial intelligence (AI) depends on data. But enterprises adopting generative AI (genAI) are struggling to access, manage and activate data of different formats. For ...

Vitess-powered PlanetScale scales to hold as much data as you need, but is currently limited to a single cluster. PlanetScale is a MySQL-compatible, serverless database platform powered by Vitess, ...

Cloud migration stands for the process of moving digital operations into the cloud. It usually refers to transferring from on-premises data centers or legacy infrastructure to the cloud. One of the ...