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.

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 ...

Data platforms have moved from static, disconnected systems to integrated environments where analytics and real-time data ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The way organisations store, manage and analyse data will always be a challenging issue given the constant assault of data on corporate IT systems. It’s as though IT teams are always playing catch-up.

In the predictions game, it's time for us to bat clean-up once more. Following Big on Data bro Andrew Brust's roundup of AI-related predictions from a cross section of industry executives, now it's ...

Google is making a number of announcements around its Cloud Platform today. Most of these focus on its various cloud database services, but the company is also making a major update to its low-cost ...

Cloud database specialist Silk Inc. today announced that it has secured a $55 million funding round led by S Capital with participation from Sequoia Capital and more than a half-dozen institutional ...