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Mohamed Wadie Nsiri

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri

9 posts

Product Manager

I have more than 11 years of experience in the IT industry. I am knowledgeable and passionate about data stores and distributed systems.

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
19 December 2023

Still running SQL Server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS ?

Ubuntu Article

Running SQL Server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS? If so, this blog is for you to evaluate options to avoid compromising the security of your data Houston, we have a problem Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS reached the end of standard support on 31 May 2021 and 31 May 2023, respectively. While ...

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
18 August 2023

How to secure your database

Data Platform Article

Cybersecurity threats are increasing in volume, complexity and impact. Yet, organisations struggle to counter these growing threats. Cyber attacks often intend to steal, damage, hijack or alter value-generating data. In this article around database security, we use the NIST framework to lay out the common controls that you can implement t ...

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
18 July 2023

MySQL high availability made charmingly easy

Charms Article

In a previous blog, we talked about patterns to run a database in a highly available manner.  In this blog, we present our recipe for MySQL high availability. We will also explain how our solution interacts with K8s objects to provide some of its features. Why use MySQL MySQL is the most popular open-source database ...

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
18 April 2023

PostgreSQL high availability made charmingly easy

Data Platform Article

In a previous blog, we talked about patterns to run a database in a highly available manner. In this blog, we present our open source recipe for PostgreSQL high availability. Benefits of a highly available PostgreSQL  A good recipe should always start by exposing the benefits of the concerned meal. Therefore, we will start this ...

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
16 February 2023

Common misconceptions behind cloud migration failures

Cloud and server Article

Migrating your workloads to the cloud can bring some undeniable benefits to your organisation. For example, you can leverage cloud automation to significantly improve your time to market. You can also benefit from the ever increasing number of cloud regions to place your workloads close to your clients. This improves the response time of ...

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
10 February 2023

Why are companies leaving the cloud? Exploring the main reasons for cloud repatriation

Cloud and server Article

There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about companies leaving the cloud. With the looming macroeconomic uncertainties that are affecting growth, companies are trying to control their costs by downsizing their staff and reducing their infrastructure costs.  One way to reduce infrastructure costs is repatriating workloads from public c ...

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
28 September 2022

The benefits of running Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro

Data Platform Article

Since November 2021, Canonical and Microsoft have been offering a jointly supported Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro solution. With this offering, you can set up an optimised configuration of SQL Server on Ubuntu in a few steps. As database professionals, we should ensure the highest possible standards for database security and availabi ...

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
14 September 2022

Should you use open-source databases?

Charms Article

You are not the only one asking this seemingly popular question! Several companies are torn between the rise in appeal of open-source databases and the undeniable challenges inherent to their adoption. Let’s explore the trends, the drivers and the challenges related to open-source database adoption. The popularity of open-source databases ...

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
2 August 2022

Patterns to achieve database High Availability

Cloud and server Article

The cost of database downtime A study from ManageForce estimated the cost of a database outage to be an average of $474,000 per hour. Long database outages are the result of poor design concerning high availability. With the exponential growth of data that is generated over the internet (which is expected to reach 180 zeta-bytes ...