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Chartio Plus Cloud Data Warehouses – Not Your Grandma’s BI

July 24, 2013

Business

Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, Business intelligence, Chartio, Data warehouse, GitHub, Google Analytics, MySQL

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…

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MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle’s FUD and Gangnam Style

March 28, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Data definition language, Gangnam Style, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, oracle, Relational database

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…

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Chartio Supporting Salesforce–Pretty for the Enterprise

February 25, 2013

Business

Chartio, Database, google, Google Analytics, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Salesforce.com, Y Combinator

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…

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Chart.io Goes GA, Lots of New Partnerships

November 13, 2012

Business

Business intelligence, chart.io, Chartio, google, Google Analytics, MySQL, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL

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…

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Xeround Rolls out Database as a Service Further

May 14, 2012

Business

AWS, cloud computing, Database, EngineYard, MySQL, PHP, rackspace, Xeround

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…

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ScaleBase–Making MySQL Fly!

December 12, 2011

Business

Database, MySQL, Scalability, ScaleBase, sharding

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…

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Xeround Offers DBaaS on Rackspace Cloud

September 20, 2011

Business

Amazon EC2, Application programming interface, cloud computing, Heroku, MySQL, rackspace, Rackspace Cloud, Xeround

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…

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CloudFoundry Launches Micro Cloud–’Cos it’s All About Local

August 24, 2011

Business

cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, MongoDB, MySQL, OpenStack, RabbitMQ, Ruby on Rails, VMware

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 –…

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CloudFoundry Inks Distribution and Deployment Deals

August 17, 2011

Business

canonical, Cloudfoundry, Dell, enStratus, MongoDB, MySQL, Open source, OpenStack, Opscode, PaaS, RabbitMQ, Redis, VMware

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…

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ScaleBase goes General Availability

August 15, 2011

Business

Database, Load Balancing, Michael Stonebraker, MySQL, Open source, ScaleBase, sharding

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…

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