Continuent Focuses on Database High Availability at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008

Platinum sponsor Continuent showcases MySQL high availability solutions at the Sixth Annual MySQL Conference & Expo.

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) January 31, 2008 -- Continuent, Inc., the leading provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database high-availability and scalability, today announced its platinum sponsorship of the MySQL® Conference & Expo 2008. Co-presented by MySQL AB and O'Reilly Media, the conference will take place April 14-17, 2008, in Santa Clara, California. The event is expected to bring together over 1,600 open source and database users from some of the most exciting and fastest-growing companies in the world, as well as from the large and active MySQL Community.

"We have been a sponsor of every MySQL Conference, since the very first annual MySQL Users Conference in San Jose in 2003," said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO at Continuent. "We are excited to be part of the MySQL Conference & Expo once again in 2008. Our participation is of significance in projecting our plans for the global MySQL ecosystem as well as highlighting our innovative solutions and support programs."

"The MySQL Conference brings together the creators of some of the industry's most massively scaling modern online applications," said Mark Burton, MySQL AB's executive vice president of Sales, Channels and Alliances. "This event is an annual highlight for IT managers and database architects from large corporations, telecom equipment vendors and Web 2.0 startups who wish to harness the power of MySQL."

At the conference, Continuent will be exhibiting its Continuent uni/cluster for MySQL, educating attendees on how to build highly available, scalable online database applications with MySQL. Robert Hodges, CTO at Continuent, will be delivering his talk on "Portable Scale-Out Benchmarks for MySQL" on Wednesday, April 16. His talk presents new open source tools that allow users to set up and run database scale-out benchmarks easily. Continuent will also highlight the future road map and new product offerings during their talk in the Products & Services track of the conference.

For more information about Continuent products, visit http://www.continuent.com. For information on Continuent's involvement in the open source community, visit http://www.continuent.org. Learn more about MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 by visiting http://mysqlconf.com.

About Continuent

Continuent provides continuous data availability. Continuent develops and markets commercial Continuent uni/cluster products and services based on Sequoia, a database-neutral, open source database-clustering project (www.continuent.org). Continuent's commercial open source solutions are currently available for EnterpriseDB™, MySQL and PostgreSQL. Continuent's Sequoia open source solutions are available for Microsoft® SQL Server, Oracle®, IBM® DB2®, and Sybase®. Continuent is headquartered in San Jose, CA, with research labs in Finland and France. For more information, please visit www.continuent.com.

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