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Legacy databases pale in comparison to cloud databases. For example, legacy databases often come with rigid contracts, punitive licensing, and monolithic architecture. They also tend to be more costly due to inflexible pricing and annual maintenance expenses. Leaders who hold fast to their legacy databases will continue to fall behind and miss out on all the cloud has to offer (to learn more about this topic, check out our Guide to Migrating Legacy Databases to AWS. However, it can be

Choosing the right public cloud provider is crucial when migrating databases away from commercial vendors. Unlocking the full potential of the cloud requires sophisticated tools, services, and features that empower your team. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides the most comprehensive set of cloud-native database features and services. Through AWS, organizations can design reliable, scalable, and secure databases that support modern applications without adding operational complexity. One of AWS's primary databases services is Amazon Aurora, a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database

In the IT world — including the app development sector — some trends are just that: trends. That’s not the case with microservices architecture, and for good reason. Microservices are changing the way apps are built and generating significant benefits for end users, as well as developers. To understand why, first think about how enterprise apps have traditionally been built. The Monolith Approach Software developers have typically created large, monolithic apps. A single monolith contains all the code for all the

When a client came to us needing to consolidate its data centers, there was a great opportunity to modernize the network and significantly reduce the customer’s networking costs. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), ClearScale was not only able to meet the customer’s goals, but do so ahead of schedule. Our client had a significant online presence consisting of numerous Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. The company also had a large set of on-premises environments deployed in several offices

Today, many organizations are migrating on-premises data infrastructure to the cloud to reduce warehousing costs and increase scalability. One institution began its cloud migration when its custom-built Oracle database couldn’t support their advanced research initiatives. Now, the organization has a cloud-based data infrastructure that can scale and adapt as needed over the long term. The Challenge The organization originally hired a third-party software development firm to design and host its on-premises data warehouse using Oracle RDBMS to support research

By Vyacheslav Gorlov Senior Solutions Architect, ClearScale Change is good — except when it's not. Even then, it might not be bad if you know how to handle it. That's the case for some of what we've seen in the app development world for the last several months. A number of changes emanating from leading companies and open-source consortiums are enabling new and enhanced capabilities for development teams, the apps they create, and their end-users. Some of the significant changes we

It’s no secret that we have more data today than we know what to do with. Modern technology has enabled us to gather, store, and analyze massive amounts of data to make informed business decisions -- from how we design new applications to how we segment customers and everything in between. However, many organizations struggle to take full advantage of their data. Commercial databases often don’t have the capabilities or capacity to handle the volume, velocity, or variety

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is always busy introducing new services, enhancing existing ones, and, quite often, driving trends. However, the company has upped its game even more in recent months. In the first half of 2020, AWS announced an astonishing number of developments that enable technology interoperability, simplifying legacy feature removal, creating greater flexibility and time-savings for developers, and putting new capabilities at the fingertips of end-users. This is the first in a series of blogs in which we’ll

More and more organizations are migrating to the cloud, lured by the promises of its well-documented benefits. However, many of these same organizations quickly come to learn that simply moving to the cloud isn’t enough. To be successful in the cloud, you must update existing on-premise, legacy, and monolithic apps by making changes to their infrastructure, architecture, and features - a concept known as application modernization. Getting the most out of your app modernization project requires using the right

By Vyacheslav Gorlov Senior Solutions Architect, ClearScale Like most aspects of American society, the judicial system deals with a diverse population. Many among that population have limited English proficiency and must rely on English-speaking family members or friends who may not be fluent speakers themselves. Even those with a good mastery of the English language may struggle with legal terminology and the unique vocabulary associated with court proceedings. For perspective, according to the US Census Bureau's 2018 American Community Survey