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MonsterMegs, a Web hosting provider has implemented LiteSpeed Web Server across their PHP & MySQL hosting environment. Improved performance for PHP & MySQL application hosting is expected as well as tolerance for higher traffic and denial of service attacks. “Not only will LiteSpeed vastly improve the performance of hosted applications,” said Kevin Kopp, MonsterMegs CEO […]

Evident ClearStone 4.5 provides monitoring and managing of all tiers of enterprise applications that includes tools that for monitoring and troubleshooting business critical NoSQL Applications. New to this version of ClearStone 4.6 includes a health dashboard and fine-grained alerting; enabling users to help determine health, performance and statuses as well as notifications for events. “With […]

WareVally is reaching, with their Orange utility, out to those companies impacted by mergers and acquisitions in the tough and challenging economic climate; helping address database migration across varied environments. Supporting the major databases that include Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, and MySQL, Orange aims to solve problems of database mergers resulting from merged IT departments. […]

Karmasphere Analyst allows SQL access to Apache Hadoop from the desktop; writing SQL queries for data stored within Apache Hadoop cluster from a graphical desktop environment. By embedding open source Apache Hive within Karmasphere Analyst developers can discover schemas for structured and unstructured data, create and access tables, prototype, develop, and query big data. “As […]

Devart has released a new version of dotConnect Data Providers, a database connectivity solution built over ADO.NET for developing database related applications and web sites across major databases. dotConnect supports the ADO.NET Entity Framework and LinqConnect. The new version include dotConnect for Oracle, MySQL, postgreSQL, and SQLite and provides new and improved ORM solution, enhanced […]

The current Gartner worldwide application server market share report notes that Oracle has a 42% market share; putting Oracle number one in this market and holding more market share than its three closest competitors. Additionally the Oracle WebLogic Server 11g has achieved the highest performance ever running a clustered database. “Oracle WebLogic Server is the […]

On this Wednesday, December 15, 2010 there will be Technology update on MySQL. Join Tomas Ulin, Vice President of MySQL development, and Rob Young, Senior MySQL Product Manager as they provide us with the latest MySQL developments. The webcast will be about 45 minutes long and followed by a question and answer period.

dataBased Intelligence Inc has launched dbEverywhere to aid in helping developers create data-driven and database-connected websites. dbEverywhere literally walks designers through a series of questions about database connectivity and fields selection; generating working code for deployment. “Although Web designers are comfortable with HTML and CSS, they’re not database programmers,” said Don Franck, CEO of dataBased […]

The general availability of MySQL 5.5 is expected to be release from Oracle during a webcast this Wednesday; providing us with improved usability, reliability, and performance. Tomas Ulin, vice president of MySQL and Rob Young, senor MySQL product manager will be updating us on developments;

Three NoSQL Databases (CouchDB, MongoDB, and SimpleDB) have tutorials out; providing a great place to start if you’ve been interested in the NoSQL databases. Tutorials include: How to Move from MySQL to CouchDB, MongoDB: Basic Queries, and Introduction to Amazon’s SimpleDB.

Oracle 11g: Implement Streams Training is now being offered by Koenig Solutions, targeted for Oracle streams administrators, DBAs, and wanting to share data within and between databases. The course will use both Oracle Enterprise Manager and command line to configure and customize streams. This is a 6 day course and includes training, evaluation, testing, and […]

Database and data integration software, as reported by a new IDC market tracker, for the first half of 2010 has grown 10.9% compared to the first half of 2009. Key to note is that while Oracle led market, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft held 70% of the total market. “Although the database and data integration market […]