With the evolution and proliferation of cloud computing, as more and more applications are being migrated to the cloud, many organizations are considering moving their database to the cloud as well. Two main concerns on users’ minds are database scalability and availability. How scalable/elastic is a database in the cloud, and will the data be highly available? In terms of scalability, there are several things users need to think about when choosing the right solution, most importantly questions and priorities around capacity and throughput.
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The Scalable, Available Cloud
Posted by: Razi Sharir December 27, 2011 05:00 AMWith the evolution and proliferation of cloud computing, as more and more applications are being migrated to the cloud, many organizations are considering moving their database to the cloud as well. Two main concerns on users’ minds are database scalability and availability. How scalable/elastic is a database in the cloud, and will the data be highly available? In terms of scalability, there are several things users need to think about when choosing the right solution, most importantly questions and priorities around capacity and throughput.