Kanaan Solaiappan, Head of Reliability and Data Engineering of Circles.Life, joined Corey Quinn of the Screaming in the Cloud podcast to discuss the challenges of building a highly-reliable Telco SaaS platform and how implementing a Sovereign DBaaS concept helped to address some of their core pain points. They cover a lot of ground in 30-minutes, check it out:  https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/the-complexity-and-value-of-scaling-reliability-with-kannan-solaiappan/ When Asia’s first fully-digital telco began planning their SaaS platform, they wanted to strike th ..read more

In part I of this blog series, we talked about what a Sovereign DBaaS is and how you can use a software orchestrator such as Netflix Conductor to realize a Sovereign DBaaS in real life. A fundamental database lifecycle operation is to provision a virtual machine (VM) for and deploy a database cluster on that VM. The VM can be created on any computing infrastructure platform, namely, VMWare vSphere/ESXi, Nutanix Prism, and public clouds (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Vultr, DigitalOcean). This helps companies whose IT strategy is to pursue a multi-cloud or hybrid deployment for databases and ..read more

Recently, our CEO Vinay Joosery took part in the Tech Talks Daily podcast to discuss how true data sovereignty is more than just about compliance and achieving it is dependent on data stack sovereignty. Get the full scoop in this 30-minute episode or check out some of the highlights below. Why is data sovereignty back in the limelight?  Increased and more assertive enforcement of the GDPR, the invalidation of the EU-US Privacy Shield by the Schrems II ruling, more data privacy regulations getting on the books in U.S. states and internationally, and the fact that most of the Western world ..read more

Not too long ago, our CEO Vinay Joosery sat down with Day Two Cloud hosts Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks to answer some burning questions about how implementing a Sovereign DBaaS can help enterprises regain complete control of their database infrastructure. Want to jump right in? Listen to the entire episode here. Before you go, why are we talking about it? Two problems we’ve seen many of our enterprise customers facing today is finding people with the skill-set needed to manage polyglot database estates at scale across environments and ops teams managing this scattered infrastructure across m ..read more

According to the 2021 Thales Data Threat Report, 45% of US companies experienced a data breach last year. That is a scary statistic, and the truth is the actual number could be even higher as not all breaches are detected. This statistic is evidence enough that the need for more robust database security has never been more critical.  This article overviews best practices for SQL Server security and key considerations for protecting your databases from malicious attacks. How to secure your SQL Server database Data security rests on three essential pillars – Confidentiality, Integrity, and ..read more

An IDC Innovators Report published November 18, 2022, included us in a diverse group of five innovators offering application development and deployment solutions for the cloud Platform-as-a-Service market. IDC research director and report author Laura Greden described the group’s core contribution, saying, “Each of the vendors profiled in this IDC Innovators document contributes to making developers more productive and helps businesses differentiate themselves by providing better experiences to end users.” Greden also explained what separates our group from other potential inductees, saying ..read more

This is Part I of a multi-part Several9s blog series on how to use Severalnines’ ClusterControl REST API client SDK to programmatically control ClusterControl in order to accomplish many facets of database life cycle management and disaster recovery. Currently, the client SDK has bindings for GoLang, Java and Python — we hope to release bindings for Ruby, Rust, Typescript, JavaScript, etc., in the near future. In this post, we will show how to use the auth, discovery and clusters endpoints. Let’s first look at the API. The ClusterControl REST API overview ClusterControl REST API documentation ..read more

We’re happy to announce our partnership with Safespring to offer PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Galera Cluster, and Redis as services on their OpenStack-based public cloud. Because of the business risks it poses, one significant area of consideration for Sovereign DBaaS is data sovereignty. Specifically, the financial risk it poses isn’t just in terms penalties, but in maintaining compliance with associated laws and regulations.  For example, it can become very expensive when a company has to make data infrastructure changes due to court rulings that are increasingly questioning and ultimate ..read more

NinesControl is a new service from Severalnines which helps you deploy MySQL, Galera, and MongoDB clusters in the cloud. In this blog post we will show you how you can easily deploy and monitor your databases on on AWS, DigitalOcean, and Google Cloud. Deployment NinesControl now supports Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, and Google Cloud. Before you attempt to deploy, you need first to configure access credentials to the cloud of your choice. We covered this topic in a blog post. Once it’s done, you should see in the “Cloud Accounts” tab the credentials defined for the chosen cloud provider ..read more

We’re excited to announce the latest release of ClusterControl — version 1.9.4. This major release adds scale out and in to Redis Sentinel, MS SQL Server 2019, and Elasticsearch clusters, shared filesystem snapshot repository for Elasticsearch, several enhancements to ClusterControl v2, and more. View the changelog for a complete breakdown of all the new features in ClusterControl 1.9.4. In this post, we’ll cover the major release highlights. What new features are included? Scale Out / In You can now add or remove nodes in Redis Sentinel, MS SQL Server 2019, and Elasticsearch clusters to optim ..read more