Partner Press Releases (2009)

LiveTime Licenses Sun's MySQL Database for its ITIL Service Management & Help Desk products

7 October 2009 — LiveTime Software, a leading provider of Web based ITIL Service Management and Help Desk software, today announced it has signed a MySQL OEM licensing agreement with Sun Microsystems. As a MySQL OEM licensee, LiveTime offers its customers a commercial version of MySQL with its products, along with first line support and free migration services from SQL Server and Oracle.

Kickfire Announces New Customers for its Next-Generation Data Warehouse Appliance

29 September 2009 — Just a few months after launching its next-generation data warehousing appliance, Kickfire™, Inc. today announced that it has won new customers, including Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc, a division of IAC, and LiveRail, a rising star in the video ad server market. At a fraction of the cost of high-end data warehouse systems, the plug-and-play Kickfire appliance is enabling these new customers to quickly and easily increase their data warehouse performance by up to 500 times.

Joyent Launches Virtual Appliance for MySQL -- Sets New Speed Benchmark for Database in the Cloud

11 August 2009 — 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.

Whereivebeen.com reaches 47 Billion MySQL updates on the Joyent Cloud without a reboot

11 June 2009 — In March 2008, Where I've Been switched hosting to the Joyent Cloud and re-launched its Facebook application. Since then, the Whereivebeen.com application has completed 47,921,072,680 queries to its MySQL database without a single reboot and with no downtime. This unprecedented stability and scale has been completely powered by the Joyent Cloud - showing that "The Cloud" is stable if you choose the right provider.

Kickfire Teams with Sun and Kimball Group to Deliver Webinar Series for the Data Warehouse Mass Market

10 June 2009 — 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.

LongJump Introduces “No-Compromise Cloud Computing”

2 June 2009 — Today at the JavaOne Conference LongJump, a leading provider of software that powers Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), announced the availability of the newest release of their leading platform – the LongJump Business Applications Platform, version 6.2. This new release includes features that enable enterprises and ISVs to quickly develop and deliver secure web applications that squarely address unique business problems or a specific vertical market. Reflecting the increased business investment in software as a service initiatives, this year's JavaOne will showcase 22 sessions dedicated to cloud computing.

Zmanda Launches Cloud-Ready Solution for MySQL Databases

1 June 2009 — Zmanda, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today announced that Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL now supports popular cloud platforms. Using ZRM, MySQL databases, including those running on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), can now be backed up to a destination of choice, including a remote cloud storage service. ZRM also allows on-premises MySQL databases to be backed up to the upcoming Sun Cloud Storage Service, which enables DBAs to create disaster recovery archives of databases on a flexible, secure and open public cloud.

Sun Presents Annual MySQL Awards

22 April 2009 — Yesterday at the MySQL Conference & Expo, Karen Tegan Padir presented the annual MySQL awards to some of our best customers, partners and open source community contributors.

And the Winners are ...

HiT Software Announces Flexible Data Integration Solution for MySQL Enterprise Users

21 April 2009 — HiT Software, Inc., a leader in data integration and replication, today announced new features in DBMoto, HiT Software’s powerful data replication solution, targeted to MySQL Enterprise customers who demand a full-featured, cost-effective and easy-to-implement data integration solution. Joining Sun Microsystem’s MECA (MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance) partner program as a Gold Partner, HiT Software offers a globally-supported product with advanced features to enterprise-class organizations that require large-scale data migration and real-time data replication between MySQL and other relational databases, including Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase.

Sun Launches New MySQL Enterprise Partner Program for 'Remote DBA' Service Providers

21 April 2009 — Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced a new MySQL™ 'Remote DBA' partner program for consulting companies and service providers looking to work closely with Sun's database team to offer the benefits of MySQL Enterprise™ directly to their clients. The Pythian Group is the first company to become an Authorized MySQL Enterprise 'Remote DBA' partner, as part of Sun's MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance (MECA) partner program.

Today's announcement was made at the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo (http://www.mysqlconf.com) being held this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. With more than 2,000 attendees, it is the world's largest community event for open source database developers, DBAs, vendors and corporate IT managers.

Kickfire Extends MySQL Enterprise Relationship with Sun Microsystems

20 April 2009 — Kickfire™, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced a joint MySQL Enterprise™ marketing agreement for the world’s first high-performance MySQL™ data warehousing appliance. The companies will work together to promote the Kickfire MySQL Appliance™ to data warehouse prospects as part of Sun’s MySQL Certified Storage Engine Program.

Virident Unveils GreenCloud Server for MySQL at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2009

20 April 2009 — Virident Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the GreenCloud™ Server for MySQL, a new server which brings ‘in−memory’ computing on an exceptional scale to Sun Microsystems' MySQL™ database. The new server was launched today at the 2009 MySQL Conference & Expo, where Virident is a Diamond Sponsor. Vijay Karamcheti, Virident CTO and Cofounder, will deliver a Keynote Address to the conference on Wednesday at 8:30AM entitled, “Extreme Performance and SmartScaling MySQL with Storage Class Memory Servers”.

LiveTime achieves MySQL Enterprise Certification for ITIL Service Manager and Help Desk

5 February 2009 — LiveTime Software, a leading provider of ITIL based Web 2.0 Service Management and Help Desk Software, today announced that it has achieved MySQL Enterprise Certification against MySQL 5.0 and 5.1. This assures customers that they are deploying a production-ready, enterprise-grade solution when using Sun Microsystems' MySQL database.