Continuent Announces New uni/cluster 2008 for MySQL

Continuent, Inc., the leading provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database high availability, today announced Continuent™ uni/cluster 2008. This newest version of Continuent's uni/cluster software provides the highest levels of availability and scalability for applications built using the MySQL® database.

Continuent uni/cluster offers a multi-master approach to replication. Data is committed and available to all nodes in the cluster simultaneously, effectively eliminating data latency. The elimination of data latency also allows uni/cluster to offer more effective load balancing because any database server can be used to process user queries.

New features in Continuent uni/cluster 2008 include:

• support for more than two cluster controllers and
• platform-independent, Adobe® AIR™-based GUI cluster management tools.
• official MySQL 5.1 certification,
• Solaris™ support and Red Hat® 5 certification,

"As organizations continue to adopt MySQL and other open source technologies for business-critical applications, high availability solutions such as Continuent uni/cluster are increasingly important," said Mårten Mickos, senior vice president, Database Group, Sun Microsystems. "Continuent uni/cluster addresses what many enterprises need - a cost-effective, reliable way to ensure that MySQL database applications are available 24/7."

"With Continuent uni/cluster 2008, organizations have insurance against outgrowing the capacity of their system," said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO of Continuent. "They can add new database servers on the fly and take advantage of uni/cluster's highly efficient load balancing, where database activity is directed to the least busy server. This can be vital to maintaining continuous data availability for maximum productivity and meet customer expectations."

At the conference, Continuent will be exhibiting its Continuent uni/cluster for MySQL in booth #101, and educating attendees on how to build highly available, scalable online database applications with MySQL

Robert Hodges, CTO at Continuent, will be delivering two talks at the conference. His first talk titled "Continuent Tungsten: Proxies on Steroids for HA and Performance!" on Tuesday, April 15, demonstrates how Continuent's new architecture rides new technology trends to create data services with high availability and performance using commodity hardware and off-the-shelf MySQL databases. His second talk "Portable Scale-Out Benchmarks for MySQL" on Wednesday, April 16, presents new open source tools that allow users to set up and run database scale-out benchmarks easily.

For more information about Continuent products, visit http://www.continuent.com. For information on Continuent's involvement in the open source community, visit http://www.continuent.org. Learn more about MySQL Conference & Expo by visiting http://mysqlconf.com.

About Continuent
Continuent provides continuous data availability. Continuent develops and markets commercial Continuent uni/cluster products and services based on Sequoia, a database-neutral, open source database-clustering project (www.continuent.org). Continuent's commercial open source solutions are currently available for EnterpriseDB™, MySQL and PostgreSQL. Continuent's Sequoia open source solutions are available for Microsoft® SQL Server, Oracle®, IBM® DB2®, and Sybase®. Continuent is headquartered in San Jose, CA, with research labs in Finland and France. For more information, please visit www.continuent.com.

Source: PRWeb