The world's most popular open source database
This white paper will review the trends and key challenges faced by today’s datacenter managers. The limitations of current approaches to improving data access will be examined, followed by an introduction to Schooner Information Technology and its breakthrough data access appliances; Schooner Appliance for Memcached and Schooner Appliance for MySQL Enterprise. Also included are cost breakdowns that demonstrate how Schooner appliances reduce both capital expenditures and operating costs to lower overall TCO. The paper concludes with quotes from several noted industry analysts on the Schooner technology approach.
The scientists and engineers at Schooner Information Technology have succeeded in addressing all of these challenges. The results are tightly coupled, compatible, scalable data access appliances—yielding order-ofmagnitude improvements in performance, power, network connectivity, and space at the datacenter level for cost-effective service deployment.
Today’s headlines confirm the potential outcomes of ineffective IT security systems. Companies are suffering serious consequences—from stolen customer data and intellectual property to insider threats who can compromise the comprehensive perimeter security. Not only are business operations interrupted, but corporate security failures are leading to damaged business reputations, lost revenues, sizeable costs, and often lost jobs for individuals held accountable. In addition, increasing privacy and security regulation presents a complex challenge for organizations that must secure massive amounts of data, monitor complex applications, and manage large numbers of users, as the corporation demands ever more access to the data from multiple access methods including the internet and wireless.
Continuent's Tungsten stack provides a unique collection of technologies for database scale-out. The stack itself is open source and works well with popular open source databases. It is database-neutral and operating system independent, so it can provide solutions for commercial databases.
The MySQL database has become the world's most popular open source database because of its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. The DBAs also expect performance, robustness and ease of use from a backup solution for MySQL. Often times we are asked what performance to expect from Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL. This document describes our first results in measuring ZRM backup and recovery performance.
The most prominent development environment for building web applications is known as the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Phyton/Pearl). In this white paper we show how the LAMP stack in combination with Dolphin Express (cluster interconnect) creates a real-time web store, suitable for markets with low latency or real-time requirements. Low latency is important in delivering fast response time in any LAMP stack application, but for some markets such as telecom, financial services and many embedded systems, this is a critical requirement. Our results demonstrate that Dolphin Express provides response time improvements of up to 712% compared to Gigabit Ethernet, as well as significant performance increases in both low and high-load cases. This makes it ideal for any performance sensitive web application and uniquely able to meet the needs of real-time e-commerce applications.
Packet General has built the industry's first secure soft server with built-in security measures in order to provide compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) mandates. Security-GENERAL™, aSecure MySQL Server, is a dedicated device ("appliance") that runs a MySQL server along with its operating environment, and provides lifetime protection to MySQL data. It eliminates the need for customers to create a patchwork of security solutions in order to achieve regulatory compliance.

