by Michael Patrick | Apr 2, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Services
As a Technical Account Manager, or TAM for short, I am fortunate to work with some large clients. Most all of them are in some state of increasing their usage of containerization. There are a number of reasons for this, but let’s explore a few of the biggest...
by Mike Benshoof | Apr 2, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Services
As discussed in part one, this series is meant to go over some of the biggest differences you will likely encounter when moving from on-premise to the cloud. In this portion, I’ll look at the architectural and operational differences that are commonly seen....
by Dawn Heiberg | Apr 1, 2020 | Database Trends, Open Source, Percona Announcements
Percona recently hosted a #PerconaChat to discuss and share some of the things we find most essential to be successful while working remotely. Even before the viral outbreak, Percona was an almost 100% remote company, so it was great to be able to impart some of our...
by Mike Benshoof | Mar 31, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Services
One of the most common questions I get as a Technical Account Manager (TAM) from clients considering a migration from their current on-premise data center to AWS is “what are the biggest differences I will need to address?” In an earlier post MySQL to the Cloud!...
by Rachel Pescador | Mar 31, 2020 | Database Trends, Open Source
Share your knowledge and experience to help inform the open source community! In 2019, we ran our first ever Open Source Data Management Software Survey, resulting in some interesting data on the state of the open source database market. Some notable statistics...
by Rachel Pescador | Mar 24, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Percona Services
Over the past ten years, those in charge of running enterprise databases saw their focus shift from simply ensuring access and availability to overseeing architecture, design, and scalability. Site reliability engineers (SREs) and/or DBAs suddenly found themselves...
by Matt Yonkovit | Mar 24, 2020 | Database Trends, Percona Services, Percona Software
Last week I wrote about How IT Can Scale and Manage Costs in an Economic Downturn. In that blog, I talked about ways to cut costs and prepare your systems for what could be next. With any massive world-changing event, there are going to be companies that have to scale...
by Matt Yonkovit | Mar 16, 2020 | Database Trends, Percona Services, Percona Software
The full impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on the world is yet to be seen, but it certainly has taken an immediate and drastic toll. Although not as important as the human toll, one that will have a broad effect is a downturn in what was a booming economy. During...
by Stephen Thorn | Jan 20, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Services
Our Solutions Engineers spend a significant amount of time talking to customers who are deployed in a DBaaS environment, or who are considering moving to DBaaS. A common theme of these discussions is what a “fully-managed database service” actually means in real...
by Michael Patrick | Jan 2, 2020 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Open Source
In your organization, who decides what database platform will be utilized for that new application being built? For many groups, that decision is made by the Development Team while for others, it is the Database Team. But, which is best equipped to make that...
