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- Feature Releases
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Announcing Managed Service for Elassandra provided by Instaclustr
Elassandra gives you the power of ElasticSearch to search your data directly from Cassandra – without developing custom integration or synchronisation code. Instaclustr, the best way to run Apache Cassandra in the cloud, is excited to announce the expansion of our platform from Apache Cassandra and Apache Spark to include Elassandra and Kibana as an...
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May 09, 2017 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Instaclustr Free Trials Now Available on Google Compute Platform
Instaclustr is pleased to announce that, thanks to some help from our friends at Google, we’re now able to make free trials of Instaclustr’s Managed Cassandra, Spark and Zeppelin service available on GCP. From today on, any customers signing up for Instaclustr are automatically eligible for a 14 Day Free Trial of Instaclustr’s service running...
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April 10, 2017 -
- Technical
Securing your Apache Cassandra cluster
The new year has begun, and with it has come a wave of database compromises. Cyber-criminals targeting “low hanging fruit” are using public search engines such as Shodan to discover and exploit unsecured MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Hadoop and Cassandra clusters. The attack is simple but effective: the attacker logs into an unsecured database, exports the data...
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January 31, 2017 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Adam Zegelin
Name Adam Zegelin Role Instaclustr Co-founder and Senior Software Engineer Location Canberra, Australia How did you get started working in IT? It was a natural progression of sorts. I have been interested in computers from an early age. I am also a causal PC game player, but I’ve always been more interested in how video...
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December 01, 2016 -
- Feature Releases
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Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra and Apache Spark™ Now Available on Google Cloud Platform
Instaclustr is pleased to announce immediate beta availability of our Managed Cassandra and Spark offerings on the Google Cloud Platform. Instaclustr is the leading provider of Apache Cassandra and Spark as a managed service with over 6 million node-hours of experience managing these technologies on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM SoftLayer. Instaclustr’s expansion...
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November 27, 2016 -
- Technical
Cassandra Collections: Hidden Tombstones and How to Avoid Them
Overview Multi-value data types (sets, lists and maps) are a powerful feature of Cassandra, aiding you in denormalisation while allowing you to still retrieve and set data at a very fine-grained level. However, some of Cassandra’s behaviour when handling these data types is not always as expected and can cause issues. In particular, there can...
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November 23, 2016 -
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Instaclustr and Baffle Partnership
Instaclustr is pleased to announce a partnership with Baffle.io to make Baffle encryption technology available to our customers as part of the Instaclustr Managed Cassandra platform. For Instaclustr, the security of our client’s data is paramount. However, while we take all the steps we can to secure clusters managed by us, the most secure solution for...
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October 26, 2016 -
- Feature Releases
- Technical
Instaclustr Support for OEM Apache Cassandra
Increasingly software developers are choosing Apache Cassandra as the data store for packaged software products. Typically, this is due to Cassandra’s industry leading levels of availability, reliability and scalability. However, many end customers for these software products, and even the software developers themselves, may have limited or no experience supporting Cassandra in an operational environment. Instaclustr’s Support...
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October 25, 2016