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.

Over the next few years, the number of organizations navigating to the cloud is expected to grow exponentially. According to Gartner, more than 70% of enterprises will use cloud platforms to ...

IDC predicts that big data is growing at an annual rate of 60% for structured and unstructured data. Businesses need to do something with all that data, and traditionally databases have been the ...

Transactional cloud databases come in all shapes and sizes, from simple key-value stores to planet-scale distributed relational databases. Here’s how to choose the right cloud database for your ...

The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend ...