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Aurora is a powerful relational database engine that, when used correctly, can deliver very high performance. This article provides a list of key Aurora performance tuning best practices to help you take full advantage of its potential. The easiest and most effective way to manage Aurora is with an Aurora performance tuning tool like SolarWinds®…

Until recently, performance certainty has mostly been left in the hands of a system’s makeup and its database administrator’s work ethic. Ever since the idea of virtually always-online file storage database management systems (DBMS) passed with corporate leaders, uptime has been assumed. Amazon, Google, and other cloud infrastructure providers became the go-to guys. Uptime became…

Oracle is a strategic partner of VMware, which means Oracle databases benefit from a lot of support and compatibility. Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Applications, and Oracle Database have their own features aligned with vSphere capabilities, which pushes Oracle database availability, scalability, and performance to a higher level. However, the VMware database is complex, and you’re…

Oracle tuning is a crucial part of ensuring fast data retrieval and maintaining optimum application performance. Database administrators, otherwise known as DBAs, are responsible for implementing Oracle database tuning best practices and identifying any database issues so that they can be resolved. Successful DBAs will have a robust understanding of how their database is organized,…

Monitoring Oracle databases is a necessary part of the job for database administrators (DBAs). They also need to spend time improving performance if things slow down, or to meet the requirements of end users who expect nearly instant results. These can be time-consuming and difficult tasks without the right metrics and tools. To improve both…

Oracle database performance tuning is an important part of facilitating and maintaining rapid data retrieval and application functionality. For database administrators (DBAs), finding Oracle database performance issues and solutions is key to their role. To do their job effectively, DBAs must have a comprehensive understanding of how their database is organized, and how all of…

Microsoft Azure Cloud has become increasingly popular since its release and now competes with Amazon AWS for the top spot in cloud database services. Many businesses are moving their storage and services to Azure Cloud, but even managed cloud databases need to be optimized for performance. It’s beneficial to use another tool in conjunction with…

MySQL is an open-source, relational database management system based on Structured Query Language (SQL). MySQL is used by dev teams in a wide variety of use cases, most commonly in data warehousing, e-commerce, and logging applications. However, its most popular deployment is in web databases, since it’s highly flexible, reliable, and scalable. It can be…

Database products are available from all the big manufacturers, but two of the most popular are IBM Db2 Database and Oracle Database. As relational database management systems (RDBMS), both are used for managing and indexing the information on your systems. Relational databases organize information in a “relational” format, in which data is represented in tables…

Email threats are becoming an increasingly large problem, both for companies and individuals. As our email addresses and personal information become more widely spread, it becomes easier to find this information online, which allows malicious actors to discover routes of attack more easily. For businesses, attacks such as phishing email threats, malware threats, and darknet…

If your virtual machines are slow or underperforming, monitoring key VM performance metrics and running appropriate VM performance tests is key to improving overall VM performance. This guide will explain the most important VM performance metrics and provide an outline of the three main VM performance test types. Key VM Performance Metrics VM Performance Testing…

This guide will help you understand VMware server virtualization and the benefits it can bring to your business. VMware is a well-known product option for server virtualization. Choosing a VMware product—and a compatible tool for in-depth virtualization management—allows businesses to enjoy the common benefits of virtualization VMware can offer, including efficiency and cost-reduction. In addition…

In 2002, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, named after its sponsors Senator Paul Sabanes (D-MD) and Representative Michael G. Oxley (R-OOH-4). Instituted “to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws,” the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (commonly referred to as SOX) established a stricter protocol for internal controls…

Using the Windows event log collector service (or an alternative third-party log collection solution) is a crucial aspect of system and network management. This guide will help you understand what the Windows Event Collector is, how the Windows event log collector service works, and how to collect Windows event logs with the Windows Event Collector….

Why is my virtual machine (VM) so slow? IT experts are regularly asked about virtual machine slow performance issues. If you’re wondering how to make virtual machines faster, then this guide is for you. The question of how to speed up virtual machines doesn’t have a simple answer. An underperforming virtual machine, one that’s slow…

In a time when the world seems to revolve around data, it’s no surprise organizations, no matter their size, need some support managing all of their stored information. With new data constantly being created and added to your databases, trying to navigate data storage, applications, and more without a tool is, at best, overwhelming and,…

The world may run on coffee, but it’s the alarm clock that gets us out of bed. It operates on a simple threshold. You set the time that’s important to you and receive an alert when that variable is true. Like your alarm clock, today’s tooling for web service alerting often operates on simple thresholds,…

The multi-cloud approach to modern IT means workloads—whether virtual machines, containers, or minimal applications—can be located on any one of multiple independent infrastructures; whether running simultaneously for fault-tolerance or when being moved between these. In a modern IT deployment, workloads can (and will) regularly move between cloud and onsite deployments, whether for price, maintenance, latency, or…

Virtualization management requires mastering a specific set of skills. But once mastered, these essential skills can lead to a long and meaningful career in IT. IT pros need a foundation in technologies. To extend utility to their organizations, they should further develop three essential skills – monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting. Think back to your first responsibilities as an…

Sometimes, whether for work purposes or personal purposes, you’ll need to access your Mac without being physically present in front of it. This might be because you’re working from a different location than usual, like home or an alternative office space, because you’re working abroad, or perhaps you’re on the go. For many years, the…

Hypervisors were created in 1965 to work with the IBM RPQ for the IBM 360/65. They were originally designed to test sharing systems between virtual machines and looking at new hardware concepts without jeopardizing the main production system. Now, hypervisors are commonly used to allocate physical hardware resources to virtual machines, which are known as…