Highlights from Verisign’s 25 Years of .Com Gala Held Wednesday Night in San Francisco
May/100
Verisign staged a 25 Years of .Com Gala Wednesday night in San Francisco co-hosted by comedian Dana Carvey and Sun Microsystems Co-Founder Scott McNealy. We have a first hand account from Aron Meystedt, the current owner of the first .com domain ever registered, who was among those recognized at the event.
Aito Technologies Embeds MySQL to Manage Several TB of Mobile Traffic Data
Jan/100
Finland-based Aito Technologies, developer of a customer experience analytics product suite, today announced its plans to employ Sun Microsystems’ MySQL Embedded Database Server software to successfully analyze up to billions of phone calls, text messages, and mobile data sessions on a daily basis.
MySQL Saves Cashpoint an Estimated Half-Million Euros per Year
Dec/090
Sun Microsystems today announced Cashpoint, the Austrian betting and gaming company, has selected Sun’s MySQL™ database to manage its customer, Web, and results data. In order to protect its systems’ high-availability, Cashpoint uses both a MySQL Enterprise™ Unlimited subscription and the MySQL Cluster database product. Employing an enterprise-wide MySQL Enterprise subscription along with MySQL Cluster contributes to considerable cost savings for the company.
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.
Sweden’s E.ON ES Selects MySQL Enterprise for its Mobile Work Order Management System
Oct/090
E.ON ES, a subsidiary within E.ON Group, today announced that it has purchased a multi-year MySQL Enterprise™ database subscription from Sun Microsystems to help power its advanced work order management system, used for the service and maintenance of Sweden’s electricity distribution grid.
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.
NetHawk Cuts its Database Costs by 50% with Sun’s Embedded MySQL database
Sep/090
Finland-based NetHawk today announced it has selected Sun Microsystems’ MySQL Embedded Database Server software in order to meet its stringent requirements for application speed, scalability and 24×7 availability – at half the cost of other databases.
Joyent Launches Virtual Appliance for MySQL — Sets New Speed Benchmark for Database in the Cloud
Aug/090
Joyent, a leading vendor in Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing, announced today that it is taking the proven performance and reliability of Sun Microsystems’ MySQL database to a whole new level by offering optimizations to the Joyent Cloud for MySQL. Joyent and Sun’s database group have teamed up to create Virtual Appliance templates for MySQL.
Joyent’s Virtual Appliance for MySQL is configured to maximize the open source database’s performance on Joyent’s powerful, secure and stable virtualization technology. Performance benchmarks (www.joyent.com/mysql) demonstrate that Joyent’s Virtual Appliance for MySQL can deliver 3 times the number of Transactions per Second than comparable deployments of XEN-based clouds, such as Amazon’s EC2.
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.