by David Quilty | Apr 27, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct...
by Mike Benshoof | Apr 15, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Services, Security
The other day on a call, a client asked me an interesting question. We were discussing some testing they were doing in Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). The question came up “since RDS is managed, how can I prove to my security team that the data is actually...
by David Quilty | Apr 13, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct...
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 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 David Quilty | Mar 30, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct...
by Brian Sumpter | Mar 27, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
This is usually one of the first questions asked by clients when discussing the possibility of adding a TAM (Technical Account Manager) to their Percona Support contract. Although the TAM role in a general sense has been around for many years, there are often...
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 David Quilty | Mar 16, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct...
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 David Quilty | Mar 2, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct...
by Rachel Pescador | Feb 26, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Services
While Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure continue to lead the pack, Google Cloud Platform is firmly positioned as a viable alternative for large and small businesses. Google Cloud is working hard to market its unique benefits, hoping to capture a share of...
by Rachel Pescador | Feb 25, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Services, Percona Software
The race to the cloud continues gaining pace, and many businesses have already enthusiastically embraced the new opportunities and efficiencies the cloud can bring. But, for those companies with more traditional technology structures and a lack of cloud knowledge...
by David Quilty | Feb 17, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct...
by David Quilty | Feb 3, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Every few weeks we put together a Release Roundup which showcases the latest in software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as...
by Rachel Pescador | Jan 27, 2020 | Database Trends, Open Source, Percona Services, Percona Software
What is Vendor Lock-In? When a company becomes too reliant upon a single vendor or solution, they can find themselves victims of vendor lock-in. Vendor lock-in is a common problem for companies that use proprietary software, databases, or platforms. Issues arise when...
by David Quilty | Jan 20, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! In our continued effort to make it a little easier for you to keep track of our latest releases and updates, every few weeks a Release Roundup showcases the latest in software updates, tools, and features to help you...
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...
