IT systems can scale vertically, horizontally, and sometimes both. In broad terms, vertical scaling, or scale-up, entails installing more powerful systems or upgrading to more powerful components.

Today, DBAs who have traditionally managed relational database systems such as Oracle and SQL Server are also managing companies’ "non-relational" databases. As platforms such as MongoDB and Cassandra ...

Subscription businesses need to be sure they invest correctly in performance and scalability to ensure customers have an engaging experience. You can spend your full ...

Scalability is the ability of a database to constantly adjust its resources to meet application demands. As an application grows or traffic increases, the original server resources, such as RAM, CPU, ...

In the past, the formula for scaling live production was simple: build bigger. Larger switchers, denser racks, and more powerful servers promised higher capacity and smoother performance. But in an ...

Second generation platform as a service DotCloud has added support for WebSockets, MongoDB 2.0 and vertical scaling in an effort to provide full stack development resources for users. For background, ...