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- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
The true cost of Do It Yourself Apache Cassandra Implementations
Overview If you are reading this article, you probably have to address data scaling challenges at your company. And it is very likely that you have come to the conclusion that Apache Cassandra is the right solution for your needs. What remains to be decided is what your deployment strategy will be: do you do it...
Learn MoreInstaclustrJuly 17, 2015 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Instaclustr Supports Apache Cassandra 2.1, DSE 4.7
Instaclustr now supports the latest production-ready versions of Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise. The Apache Cassandra project recently released Cassandra 2.16 and announced that the 2.1 series was now considered ready for production use. In addition, DataStax released their first Cassandra 2.1-based release Data Stax Enterprise v4.7. Instaclustr has moved quickly to make these, and other...
Learn MoreBen SlaterJuly 06, 2015 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Apache Cassandra authentication and encryption made easy
In the past week we have released some major enhancements to the Instaclustr Apache Cassandra provisioning system. These are a major benefit to all users of our service but in particular have been designed to make it easy to use Instaclustr from Heroku. Many users of Instaclustr have requirements for increased security levels for their...
Learn MoreBen SlaterJune 11, 2015 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Further Monitoring and Security Enhancements
At Instaclustr we are constantly enhancing our monitoring and security systems based on learnings from the large and varied Cassandra deployments we manage in production. We will shortly be releasing some significant improvements that include minor changes to customer clusters. We have recently replaced our monitoring architecture with a Reimann-based system. This change was designed...
Learn MoreBen SlaterJune 02, 2015 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Continuous improvement
Our engineering team operates on an agile methodology with two-week sprints that result in a new release. This allows us to regularly update our platform with new features for our customers and keep our managed environments up to date with the latest releases and patches. Since a major upgrade to our management system was released...
Learn MoreBen SlaterMay 16, 2015 -
- Technical
Webinar: Instaclustr Introduction
Join Us – Introduction to Instaclustr Webinar Thursday, May 7, 2015 8:00 – 8:30 AM (Pacific Time)Instaclustr is dedicated to providing the simplest and easiest way to run Apache Cassandra.Our hosted Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise solutions power mission-critical, highly available applications for our customers, enabling them to transform their business and engage like never before with...
Learn MoreInstaclustrMay 04, 2015 -
- Technical
100% availability or your money back
Instaclustr now offers availability SLAs of up to 100% with associated service credits of up to 100% of monthly fees. We have recently reviewed our SLAs and decided that our previous SLA levels did not reflect the performance that we expect of ourselves or that our customers need for the mission-critical usage of Cassandra. We...
Learn MoreBen SlaterMay 01, 2015 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Apache Cassandra Disk Usage
We’ve been having some conversations lately about Cassandra disk usage. Specifically, how full is too full on a Cassandra cluster?
Learn MoreBen SlaterApril 24, 2015 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
Pragmatic Availability with Apache Cassandra
Put together, all this means that Cassandra gives you fantastic ability to pragmatically balance your application functionality, availability requirements and infrastructure spend and achieve your real availability requirements at the lowest possible cost. At Instaclustr, we’re always happy to work with our customers to help them understand these trade-offs in detail and come to a solution that meets their unique requirements.
Learn MoreBen SlaterApril 03, 2015