Continuent Launches PostgreSQL Partnership With 2ndQuadrant
Continuent and 2ndQuadrant to collaborate for the Continuent Tungsten for PostgreSQL software development, services and sales
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) June 9, 2009 -- Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of commercial open source solutions for continuous data availability, advanced database replication and scale-out solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with 2ndQuadrant Limited.
According to the partnership agreement, 2ndQuadrant will assist with the development and support of PostgreSQL-related software components to augment Continuent Tungsten framework and Continuent will offer 2ndQuadrant's range of services to our PostgreSQL customers. Continuent and 2ndQuadrant will also engage in joint strategic business development and marketing activities.
Continuent Tungsten harnesses the power of advanced open source and commercial technologies to deliver data availability and database performance scalability solutions that are based on the Tungsten open source components, a unique collection of solutions for database scale-out. Continuent Tungsten offers easy to manage, dynamic database clusters with the highest levels of availability and scalability for PostgreSQL, MySQL® and Oracle®.
Continuent Tungsten solutions are divided into four (4) offerings - Tungsten Easy HA, Tungsten Easy HA Plus, Tungsten Easy Scale and Tungsten Enterprise - designed to solve particular types of continuous data availability and performance scaling problems.
2ndQuadrant (www.2ndquadrant.com) provides world-class technical expertise to enterprises across the world, with data-centre grade experience of PostgreSQL for large and growing OLTP, web and data warehouse databases.
"With Continuent Tungsten, PostgreSQL gains enterprise-level scalability and replication," said Simon Riggs at 2ndQuadrant, developer of the main recovery, replication and high availability features in PostgreSQL since version 8.0. "We believe there will be a high level of interest on the part of our customers."
"We are very pleased to have formed a partnership with 2ndQuadrant," said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO of Continuent. "2ndQuadrant are a team of extremely well-regarded PostgreSQL experts with a reputation for innovative solutions. The combined power of our enterprise solutions will raise the bar for data availability and database performance solutions in PostgreSQL environments."
Continuent Tungsten for PostgreSQL will be available in July 2009. The pricing for Tungsten Easy HA and Tungsten Easy Scale solutions starts at $500 per month.
For more information about Continuent and our involvement in the open source community, visit http://www.continuent.com.
About Continuent
Continuent, the world's leading provider of data availability and database performance scalability solutions, offers database high availability and incremental performance scaling using commodity hardware and databases. We provide continuous uptime so you can deliver business critical database applications with high data availability and accessibility. We also offer support, training and consulting services to our customers worldwide.
Continuent's Tungsten solutions provide a unique collection of technologies for database scale-out. Tungsten stack is 100% open source. Tungsten is operating system independent and supports both commercial and open source databases including Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB™.
For more information about Continuent and our products, visit www.continuent.com.
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