by Kortney Runyan | Jun 10, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Percona Live is moving from London to Amsterdam this year and the event is also expanding to three full days. Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23, will be at the Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre. The call for speakers and Super Saver registration are now...
by Matt Griffin | Apr 8, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live, Percona Software
In April and May, Percona will hold and participate in two OpenStack events: OpenStack Summit. Join our talks at these events in Santa Clara and Vancouver for new insights into the MySQL operations of the core of OpenStack as well as the latest information on MySQL...
by Jon Tobin | Feb 25, 2015 | MySQL
In Mo’ Data, Mo’ Problems, we explored the paradox that “Big Data” projects pose to organizations and how Tokutek is taking an innovative approach to solving those problems. In this post, we’re going to talk about another hot topic in IT, “The Cloud,” and how...
by Jon Tobin | Jan 15, 2015 | MySQL
In my recent travels, I’ve been speaking with database users at various meetups and trade shows worldwide. Very often, I got questions centering around the best use cases for our products, be it TokuDB, our MySQL storage engine, or, TokuMX, our distribution of...
by Matt Griffin | Aug 1, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software
MySQL plays a critical role in OpenStack. It serves as the host database supporting most components such as Nova, Glance, and Keystone and is the most mature guest database in Trove. Many OpenStack operators use Percona open source software including the MySQL drop-in...
by Stewart Smith | Apr 10, 2013 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
We just released our first alpha of Percona XtraBackup 2.1 for MySQL and with it we included the ability to encrypt backups on the fly (full documentation here). This feature is different than simply piping the backup stream through the openssl or gpg binaries, which...
by Tokutek | Dec 20, 2011 | MySQL
It’s almost the end of the year – that means holiday cards, shopping, cooking, parties, and the inevitable year-end top lists (including gems like this one). In the spirit of end of year list making, we fed our 60+ blogs this year through Google...
by Tokutek | Dec 14, 2011 | MySQL
Limelight Networks Issue addressed: Managing metadata at exabyte scale Delivering Agile Storage in the Cloud with Billions of Assets The Company: Founded in 2001, Limelight Networks, Inc (NASDAQ: LLNW) is an Internet platform and services company that integrates the...
by Tokutek | Oct 14, 2011 | MySQL
Review of Thursday’s Cloud Events in Boston Everyone is well aware by now of the EC2 outage that Amazon had back in April and it would have surprised no one if that high profile had put a damper on cloud adoption. But judging what we heard yesterday at Boston’s two...
by Tokutek | Sep 26, 2011 | MySQL
Review of the O’Reilly Strata Making Data Work Conference (reprinted from my guest blog for the Cloud Council of 7) Monica Rogati of LinkedIn told a story of the early days at the firm, when the reporting system consisted of a single server under someone’s...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Aug 7, 2009 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage
So during preparation of XtraDB template for EC2 I wanted to understand what IO characteristics we can expect from EBS volume ( I am speaking about single volume, not RAID as in my previous post). Yasufumi did some benchmarks and pointed me on interesting behavior,...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Aug 6, 2009 | Benchmarks
During preparation of Percona-XtraDB template to run in RightScale environment, I noticed that IO performance on EBS volume in EC2 cloud is not quite perfect. So I have spent some time benchmarking volumes. Interesting part with EBS volumes is that you see it as...
by Morgan Tocker | Jul 13, 2009 | Cloud
The question “what problems will I have when migrating to the cloud” gets asked often enough. If by cloud you mean Amazon EC2, then from a technical perspective there isn’t much that changes. The biggest thing that changes is just how you pay your...
