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What’s New: October 2015
The last month or has seen a raft of new features helping to ensure that Instaclustr is the best service possible for our customers. Here’s a round of what we’ve released: Spark Preview Release: Apache Spark and Cassandra together from one, trusted provider. See https://www.instaclustr.com/managed-apache-spark-on-cassandra/ for the details on this. New AWS EBS Backed Instance...
Learn MoreBen SlaterNovember 05, 2015 -
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Apache Cassandra Synchronization
It’s all about the timing! Instaclustr has recently implemented it own NTP (Network Time Protocol) cluster to be used by the Cassandra clusters under our management environment. This is another example of how we are working to provide the best possible management and reliability for our customer’s Cassandra clusters. NTP, as most technical people know,...
Learn MoreBen SlaterNovember 05, 2015 -
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Managed Apache Spark™ on Cassandra
Instaclustr has made available a preview release of our managed service for Apache Spark running with Cassandra. This release makes the core features of Spark available for use while we work on building out the feature set to improve useability. This blog post explains the features of our current release and the additional features you...
Learn MoreBen SlaterNovember 02, 2015 -
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Apache Cassandra on AWS EBS infrastructure
Instaclustr has updated it’s Cassandra on AWS EBS infrastructure offerings to include m4.xlarge class instances on AWS. Over 100 hours of testing and tuning has demonstrated that these nodes, using EBS provide substantial price/performance benefits for many use cases. It’s traditional wisdom that Cassandra and AWS EBS don’t mix. However, with the release of the...
Learn MoreBen SlaterOctober 28, 2015 -
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Cassandra Summit 2015 Review
Cassandra Summit 2015 Review Cassandra Summit 2015 was held recently in Santa Clara, California and Instaclustr attended to present, learn and man an exhibition floor booth. The level of attendance at the summit (more than double last year at ~6,000) and the plans for the future of Cassandra reinforced for us that Cassandra is a...
Learn MoreBen SlaterOctober 17, 2015 -
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Managed Apache Cassandra for Kong
Instaclustr makes it easy to run a production Cassandra cluster to support the Kong API management framework. What is Kong? Instaclustr has recently announced a partnership with Mashape to support users of their Kong open source API gateway. Kong is API middleware that provides standard functionality such as authentication, rate limiting and logging for API...
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 16, 2015 -
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Multi-datacenter Apache Cassandra Made Easy
Native support for multiple logical or physical datacenters within a clusters is one of the key advantages of Cassandra. Instaclustr’s automated provisioning system now makes this easier than ever. Cassandra Multi Datacenter Replication One of the the strongest features of Cassandra is its native support for the concept of multiple logical datacentres within a cluster....
Learn MoreBen SlaterSeptember 02, 2015 -
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Blazing Fast Bare Metal Apache Cassandra
Instaclustr has recently released its managed Cassandra on SoftLayer bare metal servers. Running on bare metal provides the fastest available Cassandra performance and great value for money. Instaclustr has recently brought our managed Cassandra service to the IBM SoftLayer platform. One of the key drivers behind us building support for SoftLayer was allowing us to...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 25, 2015 -
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Significant performance improvements with Apache Cassandra 2.1
Instaclustr recently released support for Apache Cassandra 2.1 and our benchmark testing has demonstrated significant performance improvements delivered by this version of the database. Instaclustr customers simply need to log a support ticket to get their cluster upgraded to take advantage. This article provides some of the results of recent benchmark testing that we have...
Learn MoreBen SlaterAugust 20, 2015