Recently, I was approached by a small but growing technology company with an urgent problem: Microsoft’s announcement regarding the retirement of Azure Database for MariaDB had caught them completely ...

With global data volumes now measured in zettabytes and growing rapidly, traditional enterprise IT systems increasingly will have a harder time scaling with it, leading to replacing servers and ...

As an IT professional working for a small to mid-sized organization you are not only in charge of the servers, desktops, firewalls, routers, switches and mobile devices… you’re the chief, cook and ...

Google LLC today introduced its Database Migration Service, a new serverless offering currently in preview that will make it easier for customers to move their databases to its public cloud. The tool ...

It’s a rare individual who truly relishes taking on a big, difficult challenge. This is especially true of challenges filled with overwhelming risk and complexity—the kind of challenge that can stall ...

In an organizations’ IT modernization journey, database migrations are often considered as easy tasks that can be completed with a quick turnaround time. Database modernization offers many benefits, ...

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As a technical matter, migrating data from an old computer system to a new one should be straightforward. There are common industry practices that can help, such as running field-mapping and ...