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.
Danfoss Embeds MySQL for Improved Software Availability & Flexibility
Jun/090
Danfoss Electronic Controls & Sensors, one of Denmark’s largest industrial companies, today announced it has selected Sun Microsystems’ MySQL database to help power its air conditioning software application AKM, Adap-Kool Monitoring. The AKM software enables commercial facilities, such as grocery store staff, to monitor and control temperature levels inside store premises. Embedding MySQL into AKM will enable Danfoss to increase the number of concurrent users of the application, while maintaining a high level of availability and performance.
Kickfire Teams with Sun and Kimball Group to Deliver Webinar Series for the Data Warehouse Mass Market
Jun/090
Kickfire today announced a new series of Webinars for the data warehousing mass market, co-presented with Sun Microsystems and the Kimball Group, the definitive source for dimensional data warehousing expertise. The data warehousing mass market is comprised of deployments in the gigabytes to low terabytes which, according to an IDC/ComputerWorld survey, represent over three-quarters of the total market.
The webinar series will begin on June 25th at 1:00 pm PDT.