Zmanda is now offering to back-up MySQL databases to your choice of cloud locations. It's a good move and a great cloud use-case. Dave Rosenberg Co-founder, MuleSource Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 ...

There are many backup options for databases, but here are recommendations for Cassandra, DB2, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. There are many options for backing up databases, and ...

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Introduced at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle’s new MySQL Cloud Service provides the benefits of MySQL Enterprise Edition through the Oracle Public Cloud. Diby Malakar, a vice president of product management ...

MySQL, the open source relational database that came to Oracle through the Sun Microsystems acquisition, originated as a relatively simple relational database that was known for one task: transaction ...

Organisations that use cloud IT or cloud-based applications often do so in the belief they can spend less time managing IT and more time running the business. Partly, this is because customers see ...

As we migrate applications and/or data to public cloud storage, a big question needs to be asked: how is my data protected? Cloud providers are singularly focused on making the infrastructure that ...

Vitess-powered PlanetScale scales to hold as much data as you need, but is currently limited to a single cluster. PlanetScale is a MySQL-compatible, serverless database platform powered by Vitess, ...

The intense public focus on ransomware in 2017 -- due in large part to the WannaCray attacks -- may have abated to some extent during 2018 with the rise of new dangers like cryptomining campaigns, but ...

We are producing more data than ever before, with more than 2.5 quintillion bytes produced every day, according to computer giant IBM. That’s a staggering 2,500,000,000,000 gigabytes of data and it’s ...