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Purity and Practicality: True Open Source Has Earned Its Trusted Place in Today’s Enterprise
Enterprises are now overloaded with choice when it comes to the breadth of their technology stack possibilities. One of the most important is deciding whether to move forward with open source or proprietary solutions (whether deployed in the cloud or or-prem). It’s a critical decision shaping the immediate and long-term future of any business’ technology...
Learn MoreBen BromheadMarch 08, 2020 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Instaclustr Announces Preview Release of Apache Cassandra 4.0 on Instaclustr Managed Platform
Instaclustr announces immediate availability of a preview release of Apache Cassandra 4.0 on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. This release is designed to allow Instaclustr customers to easily undertake any application-specific testing of Apache Cassandra 4.0 (alpha 3) in preparation for the forthcoming GA release of Apache Cassandra 4.0. Apache Cassandra 4.0, as the first major...
Learn MoreBen SlaterMarch 06, 2020 -
- Technical
Open Source Operational Tools for Apache Cassandra
Apache Cassandra is the true open source alternative for DataStax Enterprise Cassandra. It provides the same reliability, distributed architecture, and scalability. It comes with no licensing cost, but the rub is that managing it requires effort and discipline. Unlike DataStax, Apache Cassandra does not have an OpsCenter for quick diagnostic, monitoring, repair management, backup, recovery...
Learn Moreanil inamdarFebruary 28, 2020 -
- Feature Releases
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Preview Release Announcement – Fully Managed Elasticsearch™ Offering
Instaclustr is excited to announce the preview release of our managed service for Elasticsearch, a key data layer technology that joins our existing Apache Cassandra and Apache Kafka offerings on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. Elasticsearch is a linearly scalable search technology that enables businesses to search “anything digital” at very high speeds, and offers flexibility,...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 26, 2020 -
- Feature Releases
- Apache Kafka
- Technical
Fully Managed Apache Kafka® Connect Offering
Instaclustr is pleased to announce the Preview release of our fully managed Apache Kafka Connect offering on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. Apache Kafka Connect is an open source component of the Apache Kafka project. It enables rapid integration of a Kafka cluster with external data sources and sinks with minimal development effort, inherently handling the...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 20, 2020 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache Kafka
- Technical
Instaclustr Announces PCI-DSS Certification
Instaclustr is very pleased to announce that we have achieved PCI-DSS certification for our Managed Apache Cassandra and Managed Apache Kafka offerings running in AWS. PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard) is a mandated standard for many financial applications and we increasingly see the PCI-DSS controls adopted as the “gold standard” in other...
Learn MoreBen SlaterFebruary 19, 2020 -
- Apache Kafka
- Technical
Migrate Your Apache Kafka® Cluster to Instaclustr With Zero Downtime
Helping our customers migrate their Kafka application to Instaclustr with no downtime is a key part of our service here at Instaclustr. For Cassandra, you can read about our approach here. For migrating Kafka cluster, many of our customers are able to migrate by a process of: Starting up a consumer group against their new...
Learn MoreVinfred SolomonFebruary 18, 2020 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Apache Cassandra 4.0 – Netty Transport
In this series of blog posts, we’ll take a meandering tour of some of the important changes, cool features, and nice ergonomics that are coming with Apache Cassandra 4.0. In part 1 we focussed on Cassandra 4.0 stability and testing, and Part 2 around virtual tables. In this part we will learn about Netty Transport Framework
Learn MoreBen BromheadFebruary 14, 2020 -
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Instaclustr Security Features Overview
Security has been at the forefront of Instaclustr’s systems and operations since day one. We understand that you trust us with your valuable data and we take that responsibility very seriously. As part of our security focus, several of our offerings are PCI certified and we have been SOC 2 compliant for several years. Both...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 14, 2020