Sun "Tech Days" Conference World Tour Kicks Off in Brazil
Dec/090
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the details of the Sun Tech Days worldwide developer conference for 2009-10 at http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/index.jsp. Sun Tech Days is a multi-city world tour designed to showcase how the developer community can leverage Sun technologies, services and products to drive the next generation of industry innovation. Since 1998, the Sun Tech Days worldwide conference has brought together hundreds of thousands of developers and students to learn about technology from industry experts.
Italy’s CASPUR Relies on MySQL Enterprise to Support its Scientific Research
Oct/090
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that CASPUR, a non-profit, consortium of Italian universities focused on scientific supercomputing and innovative technologies, has subscribed to Sun’s MySQL Enterprise™ database service.
New Version of MySQL Enterprise Allows DBAs to Graphically Drill-Down into Database Bottlenecks to Improve Application Performance
Sep/090
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced an update to its MySQL Enterprise™ subscription, designed to assist corporate users improve the speed and uptime of their MySQL™ database applications. Thirty-day trial subscriptions of the new MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release are now available free-of-charge from http://www.mysql.com/trials.
TweetMeme Migrates to Sun’s MySQL Enterprise Database Subscription Service
Jul/090
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that TweetMeme, the innovative online application that tracks the popularity of links sent via Twitter, has subscribed to Sun’s MySQL Enterprise database offering in order to keep up with the microblogging service’s explosive growth.
Created in 2008 by pioneering Web 2.0 startup Fav.or.it, TweetMeme gives the rapidly expanding Twitter community a means of easily seeing and sorting the most popular links on Twitter. TweetMeme also provides a realtime search facility of fully expanded, qualified and indexed links so that users can get answers to queries about very recent events or news.
Sun Announces MySQL 5.4: Up To 90% Faster Response Times, and Scalability Up to 16-way x86 Servers and 64-way CMT Servers
Apr/090
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced MySQL™ 5.4, a new version of the world’s most popular open source database, designed to deliver significant performance and scalability improvements to MySQL applications. A preview version of MySQL 5.4 is available now for download at http://www.mysql.com/5.4.
Today’s announcement was made at the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo being held this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. With more than 2,000 attendees, it is the world’s largest event for open source database developers, DBAs, vendors and corporate IT managers.
Sun Releases MySQL 5.1 — Boosts Performance & Simplifies Management of Large-Scale Database Applications
Dec/080
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the general availability of MySQL™ 5.1, a major new release of the world’s most popular open source database. Designed to improve performance and simplify management of large-scale database applications, the production-ready MySQL 5.1 software is available for download now at dev.mysql.com/downloads.
New MySQL Enterprise with Query Analyzer Improves Database Application Performance
Nov/080
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced a major new version of its MySQL Enterprise™ subscription service to help corporate users dramatically improve the speed and uptime of their MySQL™ database applications. MySQL Enterprise subscribers now have access to Sun’s new MySQL Query Analyzer tool for monitoring query performance to accurately pinpoint and correct problem SQL code — in addition to MySQL Enterprise’s regular software updates and 24×7 production technical support.
Thirty-day trial subscriptions for the new MySQL Enterprise service, including MySQL Query Analyzer, are now available free-of-charge from www.mysql.com/trials.
Sun Unveils New Systems & Storage Solutions for MySQL
Nov/080
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced Sun Systems for MySQL™, a set of solutions designed to radically change the economics of Web service delivery for enterprise customers deploying MySQL-based Web Infrastructure on Sun servers. Proven customer deployments have shown the ability to improve performance by 300 percent, reduce power consumption by 83 percent and offer up to 10 times better price/performance, with higher system reliability and faster time to market.
To view a video of John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun’s Systems Group, and Marten Mickos, senior vice president of Sun’s Database Group, discussing the new solutions, please visit: www.sun.com/mysqlsystems.