The Covid-19 epidemic, the lockdowns, and the social distancing, as well as the new routine that we all are still adjusting to, has served as a wake-up call for businesses of all sizes. The restrictions placed on the public in the wake of the epidemic turned the world upside down, with businesses across industries and […]
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Setting up your business environment in multiple regions would assist with disaster recovery and business continuity. Unfortunately, the task of becoming cloud-agnostic is often too complex and prohibitively expensive to achieve for many organizations. Luckily, with the right tools, achieving multicloud and multi-region business continuity doesn’t have to be a difficult or expensive task. […]
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Kubernetes is becoming increasingly popular among developers looking to deploy stateful apps. K8s users have to confront the issue of what to do with their data. This blog will go through three critical criteria for any deployment: resilience, availability, and data security, and how it all relates to your application state. Why is data […]
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In the world of enterprise IT, there is no word scarier than downtime. When you are responsible for business continuity, nothing can compare to the sinking feeling when you realize that you’ve just lost a large chunk of critical data that cannot be recovered. For companies providing client-facing services requiring the implementation of strict Service […]
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“Everything is data – you have to store it somewhere. The question is – who has the ability to control you through the ownership of data?” Our head of product, Michael Greenberg interviewed with Bill Doerrfeld about enabling successful stateful Kubernetes deployments. Read the full interview here
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Summary Doxi provides an advanced digital signature (E-sign) service for managing multiple signatures and approvals of organizational documents. Critical customer data is stored in a MongoDB hosted on the Azure public cloud. Given their requirement to maintain a copy at all times of every digital signature collected, they require a Business Continuity (BC) solution […]
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To achieve the five-9’s high availability in the public cloud, most cloud providers offer SLAs with a 99.999% uptime guarantee, combined with redundant configurations that span CSPs regions. This stems from an effort to increase confidence in getting adequate availability. For many applications, this arrangement is good enough. But when latency, availability, and control are […]
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According to a 2020 CNCF survey, Kubernetes continues to lead the container surge, and is truly becoming the de-facto way to deploy applications: “This year, 91% of respondents report using Kubernetes, 83% of them in production. This continues a steady increase from 78% last year and 58% in 2018.” The reasons why Kubernetes continues to […]
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Originally Published on ToolBox for IT What’s Operational Flexibility and Why You Need It Imagine being able to mold your IT operations to exactly match your business needs without technological limitations. This is ”operational flexibility”. However, this remains out of reach for most of us, as the biggest obstacle standing between you and […]
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Originally Published on ToolBox for IT DevOps as a methodology is widely understood and accepted among the IT industry. It was created to integrate all software development and deployment stakeholders and create a single automated workflow that promises a stable and reliable application. According to GitLab’s Fourth Annual Global DevSecOps Survey, DevOps adoption rates are […]
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What’s the Difference Between RPO and RTO? The recovery point objective (RPO) measures how frequently backups are being performed – every 5 minutes? 5 hours? A whole day? It represents how up-to-date recovered data will be. The recovery time objective (RTO) is essentially the downtime, what is the maximum amount of time your business […]
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This guide will walk you through the necessary steps to deploy MySQL on Kubernetes with built-in cross-region or multicloud business continuity. That means, that at the event of a failure of your cluster, or the entire cloud region where it is deployed, you’ll be able to start your database, with all of its latest data […]
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Kubernetes has become a go-to way to deploy applications. You can easily deploy your entire microservice infrastructure and service mesh in minutes, just by applying your configuration to a Kubernetes cluster. But what if you need to change locations or move to another cloud vendor in response to shifting business needs? How can you move […]
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One of the significant challenges that arise when using Kubernetes is that it is extremely difficult to set up storage to accommodate stateful applications while ensuring resiliency and application mobility. The truth is – storage is falling behind the curve of the rest of cloud infrastructure, and traditional storage solutions are complex and are extremely […]
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What is Self-Healing in Kubernetes? One of the great benefits of Kubernetes is that it allows your infrastructure to self-heal. By that, I mean that if something goes wrong, Kubernetes will do whatever is necessary to bring things back to normal. A containerized application or component will automatically be redeployed in its intended state […]
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Statehub launched a private beta of a managed service through which IT teams can move data more easily between geographically distributed Kubernetes clusters. Read the full article here
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Statehub’s fully managed app mobility service, in private beta, enables easy deployment and management of stateful Kubernetes applications. Read the full article here
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So, you’ve finally decided to use Kubernetes for stateful applications? Congrats! (And good luck.) Let’s put the Champagne back in the ice bucket and talk about data – the chain that binds your stateful architecture to a single location. If you’re only using a single region, you’re in luck. But what happens when the same […]
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