Tag Archives: MySQL

March 28, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle’s FUD and Gangnam Style

By Ben Kepes

Recently Oracle released it’s first update to MySQL in two years. This release was, at least in part, a response to the huge uptake of NoSQL databases and the move away from traditional structured databases for many applications. I was approached by Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold who believes that the

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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 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Chart.io Goes GA, Lots of New Partnerships

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time yesterday talking to Chart.io, a company laser-focused on being an interface for organizational data. That’s a complex way of saying that Chart.io aims to take raw data out of different applications and databases and give organizations a pallet of tools with which to create illustrative charts

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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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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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September 20, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xeround Offers DBaaS on Rackspace Cloud

By Ben Kepes

Xeround the database service (more on them here) that is brining high levels of flexibility to cloud database users, is today rolling out availability on the Rackspace cloud. Formerly available on Amazon EC2 and Heroku, Xeround is moving in their ambition to support a large number of cloud infrastructure providers.

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August 24, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

CloudFoundry Launches Micro Cloud–’Cos it’s All About Local

By Ben Kepes

VMware is this morning announcing the general release of Micro CloudFoundry, a downloadable and installable PaaS that can be run on any PC or Mac. Micro CloudFoundry is essentially a local emulation of the cloud based CloudFoundry product – it allows developers to create and test software on their own

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August 17, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

CloudFoundry Inks Distribution and Deployment Deals

By Ben Kepes

In my mind at least, PaaS is the area of cloud computing that is seriously exciting right now – while what can be achieved with a SaaS app has pretty much been tapped out, and infrastructure becomes more and more commoditized, it is PaaS where people are doing amazing things

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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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