Traditional business intelligence (BI) is a real dog of a thing – big metal storage, heavy applications, long delay times and serious amounts of data wrangling are regular themes when it comes to running an enterprise BI project. The…
Recently Oracle released it’s first update to MySQL in two years. This release was, at least in part, a response to the huge uptake of NoSQL databases and the move away from traditional structured databases for many applications. I…
Two themes I often talk about are specific functionality from specialist vendors and delivering enterprise solutions in new and friendly ways. A good example of this I came across recently was from small company Chartio. Chartio, a Y Combinator…
I spent some time yesterday talking to Chart.io, a company laser-focused on being an interface for organizational data. That’s a complex way of saying that Chart.io aims to take raw data out of different applications and databases and give…
Xeround, the database as a service offering is today announcing an integration that sees it power MySQL applications running on both AppHarbor’s .Net platform as well as AppFog’s PHP platform. As developers increasingly look to PaaS as the first…
I got a release the other day that will be pretty interesting for those worried about scaling MySQL up to high transaction counts. ScaleBase (more on them here) have just achieved a rate of 190000 transactions a minute while…
Xeround the database service (more on them here) that is brining high levels of flexibility to cloud database users, is today rolling out availability on the Rackspace cloud. Formerly available on Amazon EC2 and Heroku, Xeround is moving in…
VMware is this morning announcing the general release of Micro CloudFoundry, a downloadable and installable PaaS that can be run on any PC or Mac. Micro CloudFoundry is essentially a local emulation of the cloud based CloudFoundry product –…
In my mind at least, PaaS is the area of cloud computing that is seriously exciting right now – while what can be achieved with a SaaS app has pretty much been tapped out, and infrastructure becomes more and…
I spent some time a week or two ago talking with Liran Zelka, co-founder of Database proxy provider ScaleBase. I first talked with Zelka at CloudConnect earlier in the year, and the reason for our catch up was to…
