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Data, data ... everywhere

As Tim O’Reilly puts it, Data is the next ‘Intel Inside’ – data is one of the most important assets of any organization. The data management problem is real, whether you are a small startup or a large corporation. It is not uncommon for most sizable IT organizations to have hundreds or thousands of database instances that are critical to their business. Even small startups with database driven services and applications have an ability to generate tremendous volumes of data.

Hidden costs, poor availability and scalability

Managing these databases, including deploying, provisioning and updating them, is time-consuming and incurs many hidden costs. Unfortunately, poorly managed databases eventually lead to downtime. There are productivity costs when staff cannot readily access their internal IT services. The cost and business impact of downtime for an online business, when customers or partners cannot access the service, can be disastrous for the business.

Databases are also not designed to scale in an elastic manner. Scaling up on a larger server tends to not be too much of an issue, but scaling out in a horizontal manner is where the difficulties begin. Elastic scaling is hard, and is a major project undertaking that very often involves expensive consultants.  

Public and Enterprise Database as a Service (DBaaS)

The reduced complexity, lower costs and improved agility enabled by cloud computing is growing in appeal to many organizations. The DBaaS provides easy access to scalable, on-demand database resources with the click of a mouse. There are already multiple cloud infrastructure providers offering a public DBaaS. For organizations with their own private cloud infrastructure, a private DBaaS infrastructure can be very appealing. IT organizations can centrally provision and manage databases across their enterprise. IT administrators can enforce company-wide policies and control their database infrastructure. Developers can use a web interface to provision and scale databases that are automatically managed.

Severalnines DataCloud™

Severalnines DataCloud™ enables DBaaS for public, private and hybrid clouds. It extends the advantages of cloud computing to the database infrastructure layer by enabling on-demand access, automated management, managed availability and elasticity of MySQL databases. This reduces cost and the complexities of deploying and managing databases.

Getting Started with City Cloud Database Service - powered by Severalnines DataCloud™

Some of the key features of Severalnines DataCloud™ are:

Ease of Use
Severalnines DataCloud™ automates the deployment, management, monitoring and scaling of databases. Whether in a public or private cloud, end users can provision databases at the click of a mouse. Benefits include:

• a web interface for easy provisioning
• zero maintenance or administration - backups, patch management and replication handling are fully automated
• performance management - users have visibility of top queries and can drill-down into performance
• comprehensive user interface for administering databases; and
• data import and export functionality to help move MySQL databases within the cloud.

High Availability

• High-availability is an attribute that can be enabled by clicking a check-box.
• Databases are made redundant.
• Failures are detected, and failover is automatic so as to minimize downtime.
• Databases instances automatically resynchronize when they come back online.  

Elasticity
Databases can be scaled and new instances added at the click of a mouse. For MySQL, a few models are available.

• The MySQL Master-Slave model allows for slaves to be added in order to increase read performance.
• The MySQL Galera model is a true multi-master MySQL/InnoDB setup where one can read and write from any MySQL Server.
• The MySQL Cluster model allows for real-time read and write scalability by sharding data across node groups.

No Cloud Lock-in
Clouds are not created equal, and with the number of cloud providers growing, organizations can now choose the best vendors for their unique set of requirements. A certain pricing model might work better for certain usage patterns. Trans-border regulatory concerns or latency requirements might impose a geographical location for data.private and hybrid clouds. It extends the advantages of cloud computing to the database infrastructure layer by enabling on-demand access, automated management, managed availability and elasticity of MySQL databases. This reduces cost and the complexities of deploying and managing databases.

Getting Started with City Cloud Database Service - powered by Severalnines DataCloud™