Airborne contaminants can be detrimental to a data center, especially when humidity carries harmful components that corrode metals and technological equipment. When corrosion in data center facilities happens, it can corrupt data, require repairs and take away from the company's profits. That's why it's vital to focus on data center humidity control. The process of protecting … [Read more...] about You Need to Monitor Data Center Humidity to Protect Equipment
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What is Mainframe Modernization?
Technically speaking, mainframe modernization simply refers to the process of improving an enterprise's existing mainframe footprint in several aspects, including interface, code, performance, maintainability, and cost. Some would say that modernizing the mainframe means replacement of these legacy systems with commodity servers, which is a bold claim since it calls for a … [Read more...] about What is Mainframe Modernization?
Data-Handling for Small Businesses
Your business might be smaller than Facebook or Google, but you are still handling data, still building customer profiles, and still have all the hassles that data-handling creates for every business. The two most significant issues regarding your data are; costs and security. Reducing Costs Holding data helps your business to grow, but there are environmental and financial … [Read more...] about Data-Handling for Small Businesses
PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 2 PgBouncer
When it comes to connection pooling in the PostgreSQL world, PgBouncer is probably the most popular option. It's a very simple utility that does exactly one thing “ it sits between the database and the clients and speaks the PostgreSQL protocol, emulating a PostgreSQL server. A client connects to PgBouncer with the exact same syntax it would use when connecting directly to … [Read more...] about PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 2 PgBouncer
Re-Slaving a Crashed MySQL Master Server in Semisynchronous Replication Setup
In a MySQL 5.7 master-slave setup that uses the default semisynchronous replication setting for rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_point, a crash of the master and failover to the slave is considered to be lossless. However, when the crashed master comes back, you may find that it has transactions that are not present in the current master (which was previously a slave). This behavior … [Read more...] about Re-Slaving a Crashed MySQL Master Server in Semisynchronous Replication Setup
