Josh Mintz

migration January 4, 2022

Compose to IBM Cloud Databases: The Migration Guide

3 min read - A compilation of tutorials on how to migrate Compose databases over to IBM Cloud Databases. Since the release of IBM Cloud Databases three years ago, we have received tremendous interest from Compose customers looking to upgrade their resources to the…

Open source June 30, 2021

Deploy Managed Cloud-Native Databases Anywhere with IBM Cloud Satellite

4 min read - A distributed cloud provides consistent security and services across environments, centralized workload visibility, reduced latency, easier compliance and higher application development velocity. Listen to the IBM Cloud Podcast as two experts discuss the intersection of cloud databases with distributed cloud environments.  DBaaS…

database May 5, 2021

IBM Cloud Databases PostgreSQL 9.6 End of Life

< 1 min read - On November 11, 2021, all IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL instances on version 9.6 that are still active will be disabled. Users are expected to either be on PostgreSQL version 10 or get the latest preferred version of IBM Cloud…

database April 8, 2021

Database Deep Dives with IBM Cloud

< 1 min read - Database Deep Dives is a series of in-depth interviews that goes behind the scenes with the foremost leaders in the database field.  Through these conversations, we draw back the curtain and provide insights on the latest industry trends, advancements, and…

database April 7, 2021

Database Deep Dives with Andy Pavlo

11 min read - In this iteration of Database Deep Dives, we had the pleasure of catching up with Professor Andy Pavlo. Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where his research focuses on database…

database February 15, 2021

What’s New in IBM Cloud Databases

2 min read - We are thrilled to announce the GA of three features: IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Endpoints (VPE) for VPC, Horizontal Scaling of PostgreSQL and Horizontal Scaling of DataStax. These features enhance security and availability capabilities of our data services.  Virtual Private…

database December 8, 2020

Databases for Elasticsearch 6 End of Life

< 1 min read - On April 29, 2021, all IBM Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch instances on version 6.x that are still active will be disabled. Users are expected to either be on Elasticsearch version 7 or get the latest preferred version of IBM Cloud…

Cloud December 2, 2020

IBM Is Named a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems

2 min read - The latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems has just been released, and IBM is thrilled to be recognized as a Leader. In our opinion, this recognition affirms IBM’s continued global leadership, strength, and decades of experience in…

database December 2, 2020

Databases for MongoDB 3.6 End of Life in April 2021

< 1 min read - On April 27, 2021, all IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB instances on version 3.6 that are still active will be upgraded in-place to the next major version. This will be done according to our Database Versioning Policy. Users are expected to…

Cloud November 16, 2020

Database Deep Dives: Cassandra

12 min read - Welcome back to the latest installment of Database Deep Dives. In this interview, we caught up with Jonathan Ellis, co-founder of DataStax and Apache Cassandra PMC member. In this session, we talk about the origins of DataStax, when you should…

Open source November 9, 2020

Databases for Elasticsearch v7.9 is Now Available

< 1 min read - We are pleased to announce the release of version 7.9 on IBM Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch.  These deployments of IBM Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch will have the following: A new JVM version and garbage collector with much-improved GC performance. Expect…

database September 9, 2020

PostgreSQL 9.5 End of Life

< 1 min read - On February 11, 2021, all IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL instances on version 9.5 that are still active will be disabled. Users are expected to either be on PostgreSQL version 9.6 or get the latest preferred version of IBM Cloud…