Blog posts tagged "RDBMS"

Charmed MySQL enters General Availability

Nov 6th, 2024:  Today Canonical announced the release of Charmed MySQL, an enterprise solution that helps you secure and automate the deployment, maintenance...

How to secure your database

Cybersecurity threats are increasing in volume, complexity and impact. Yet, organisations struggle to counter these growing threats. Cyber attacks often...

MySQL high availability made charmingly easy

In a previous blog, we talked about patterns to run a database in a highly available manner.  In this blog, we present our recipe for MySQL high availability....

PostgreSQL high availability made charmingly easy

In a previous blog, we talked about patterns to run a database in a highly available manner. In this blog, we present our open source recipe for PostgreSQL...

Common misconceptions behind cloud migration failures

Migrating your workloads to the cloud can bring some undeniable benefits to your organisation. For example, you can leverage cloud automation to significantly...

Why are companies leaving the cloud? Exploring the main reasons for cloud repatriation

There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about companies leaving the cloud. With the looming macroeconomic uncertainties that are affecting growth,...

The benefits of running Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro

Since November 2021, Canonical and Microsoft have been offering a jointly supported Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro solution. With this offering, you can...

Should you use open-source databases?

You are not the only one asking this seemingly popular question! Several companies are torn between the rise in appeal of open-source databases and the...

Patterns to achieve database High Availability

The cost of database downtime A study from ManageForce estimated the cost of a database outage to be an average of $474,000 per hour. Long database outages...

SQL vs NoSQL: Choosing your database

IT leaders, engineers, and developers must consider multiple factors when using a database. There are scores of open source and proprietary databases...

SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro: bringing it all back home

Not going to lie, the Microsoft SQL Server is my all-time favourite Microsoft product. For a long time, SQL Server was only available for Windows, but not...

Ubuntu Pro-based Microsoft SQL Server Instances available for Azure

1st November 2021: Today, Canonical announced support with Microsoft for Microsoft SQL Server with Ubuntu Pro on Microsoft Azure. Canonical has worked with...

How to cache snap downloads and save bandwidth

For many people, fast broadband connection and unlimited data are a reality. For others, they are not. If you have several Linux hosts in your (home)...

Ubuntu in the wild – 22nd of June

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis.

Let’s play: sharded big data PostgreSQL

Everyone knows that if you’ve got big data, you need Apache Hadoop, right? It’s an affordable, horizontally scalable, clustered data processing platform ideal...

PostgreSQL: The PgMiner botnet attacks & Postgres database security

Assuring the security of PostgreSQL and all open source database systems is critical as many learned with the PgMiner botnet attacks in December 2020. Having...