Tag Archives: Database

February 25, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Chartio Supporting Salesforce–Pretty for the Enterprise

By Ben Kepes

Two themes I often talk about are specific functionality from specialist vendors and delivering enterprise solutions in new and friendly ways. A good example of this I came across recently was from small company Chartio. Chartio, a Y Combinator company, touts itself as the best interface for data. Essentially it

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November 8, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Forrester Confuses “Best” with “Most Accessible”

By Ben Kepes

I’ve got a love/hate relationship with the traditional analyst firms. Their people are incredibly smart and very thorough, but sometimes in their search for massive levels of details, they miss the very point of technology. A good case in point is the recently released Forrester Enterprise Cloud Database Wave report.

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September 12, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Dataloader.io Provides Easy Salesforce Migration

By Ben Kepes

One of the great untold barriers to actually moving to the cloud is the not insignificant pain that organizations feel when migrating their data from an existing system of record to a cloud solution. This is especially the case when the solution is both an integral part of the organization’s

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June 21, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Garantia–Scaling and Protecting In-Memory NoSQL

By Ben Kepes

Note – this is (kind of) a repost – I was asked by Garantia’s PR company to pull an earlier post and publish this as the company gets ready to demo at Structure – that’s a highly unusual request but one I chose to follow out of respect to the

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May 14, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xeround Rolls out Database as a Service Further

By Ben Kepes

Xeround, the database as a service offering is today announcing an integration that sees it power MySQL applications running on both AppHarbor’s .Net platform as well as AppFog’s PHP platform. As developers increasingly look to PaaS as the first choice for easing the deployment and management aspects of their task,

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February 8, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Survey Shows Increased Adoption of NoSQL

By Ben Kepes

One of the more striking developments in the application database space in recent years has been the rise of unstructured databases. Aggregated under the heading “NoSQL” (not an ideal name it must be said), these unstructured database management systems don’t use SQL as their query language and are unhindered by

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December 12, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ScaleBase–Making MySQL Fly!

By Ben Kepes

I got a release the other day that will be pretty interesting for those worried about scaling MySQL up to high transaction counts. ScaleBase (more on them here) have just achieved a rate of 190000 transactions a minute while sitting within an Amazon RDS environment. It’s an interesting result, and

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August 15, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ScaleBase goes General Availability

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time a week or two ago talking with Liran Zelka, co-founder of Database proxy provider ScaleBase. I first talked with Zelka at CloudConnect earlier in the year, and the reason for our catch up was to discuss the fact that ScaleBase is going into general availability this

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June 13, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xeround Goes GA with Cloud Database

By Ben Kepes

Xeround today announced the general availability of its Cloud Database for MySQL Applications. Xeround is a pay-per-use cloud database service that enables customers to only pay for actual resources consumed and not by server/instance size. This can be contrasted with other Cloud Databases, notably Amazon RDS, that require customers to

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March 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Xeround Still Has Faith in Heroku

By Ben Kepes

Late last year salesforce.com announced its acquisition of PaaS product Heroku. At the time there was a smattering of concern from users of Heroku as to what the acquisition would mean for Heroku – would salesforce play nice with the product and community? Would developers still want to hang out

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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