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As the saying goes, we at Severalnines have been walking on several clouds this year, 9 to be precise!

Today, we are proud to say that we are on walking on Cloud 9!

And in the spirit of celebration, we would like to announce our:

Top 9 Clouds of the Year 2011 for Severalnines

Cloud 1 – releasing ClusterControl™ - our first commercial product in April!

ClusterControl™ is our flagship product. It enables developers and database administrators to Deploy, Manage, Monitor and Scale their clustered database platforms, free from the complexity and learning curves associated with database clusters. Read more ...

Cloud 2 – releasing ClusterControl™ for MySQL Replication

Designed to address issues and needs of MySQL users relying on MySQL Replication, ClusterControl™ for MySQL Replication offers a complete set of tools to assist developers and administrators of all skill levels to deploy, manage, monitor and scale their replicated MySQL databases. Read more ...

Cloud 3 - releasing ClusterControl™ for MySQL Galera together with Codership

ClusterControl™ for MySQL Galera enables customers to Deploy, Manage, Monitor and Scale a clustered MySQL database platform based on Galera Replication. MySQL Galera is a synchronous multi-master cluster for MySQL/InnoDB, and allows applications to read and write from any MySQL Server.

Developers and DBAs now have access to all of the features of Severalnines' flagship product ClusterControl™ specifically adapted to MySQL Galera. Read more ...

Cloud 4 – reaching over 7,000 installations via the Severalnines Configurator

The Severalnines Configurator allows you to generate a production class configuration for a clustered MySQL configuration. It also generates a deployment package that automates the deployment of the complete database setup. Topologies can be based on MySQL Replication, MySQL Cluster or MySQL Galera.

We have a great user base and in order to facilitate communication within our user community, we set up our Severalnines Customer Services platform with forums, online support, etc. both for paying customers as well as users. Check it out and join the conversation!

Cloud 5 – our Customers

At Severalnines, our goal is to reduce database costs, ease deployment, simplify management and increase DBA and developer productivity.

But rather than us telling you why we think we are great, we wanted to provide documented case studies on how our innovative products are helping customers meet and exceed business goals for their database operations. See what our customers have to say about us.

Cloud 6 – introducing Severalnines DataCloud™

Severalnines DataCloud™ enables DBaaS for public, private and hybrid clouds. It extends the advantages of cloud computing to the database infrastructure layer by enabling on-demand access, automated management, managed availability and elasticity of MySQL databases. This reduces cost and the complexities of deploying and managing databases. Read more ...

Cloud 7 – launching the first ever 100% European DbaaS with City Network

On November 23^rd, Severalnines and our partner City Network announced the first fully European Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution - in beta form. The City Cloud Database Service is based and operated in the European Union - offering European customers full compliance with EU Directive on Data Protection 95/46/EC and a safe haven from the reaches of the US Patriot Act and making it the first ever offering of its kind. Read more ...

Cloud 8 – being talked about at the European Commission – Severalnines in the News

Following our announcement of the City Cloud Database Service, the press took over and 20+ original articles later, we discovered that we were even being talked about at European Commission conferences. Which shows to prove that politicians do read the papers (or are well briefed by colleagues who do) and that we had hit the right spot with our announcement. Find out more and see all the press coverage in our News Center.

Cloud 9 – winning the EuroCloud Sweden & Europe Awards 2011 for Best Startup!!!

We did it! After winning the EuroCloud Award for Sweden, we won the EuroCloud Europe Award for Best Startup last week in Paris at a prestigious ceremony on the Seine. We attended the ceremony together with our friends from City Network and needless to say that we had a great night! The Awards have been widely covered by the European press in multiple languages – visit our News Center for all the details.

All in all, it's been a great year for us and we have all of you to thank for that!

So here is a BIG 'thank you' from everyone at Severalnines to all our customers, partners, friends and supporters out there.

Have a great year-end and and an even better start to the year 2012 - see you there!

Please do reach out to us with your feedback on Facebook, LinkedIn, XING or directly via these contact details for fruitful and interactive discussions on this latest release. For 'instant' communication, feel free to follow us on Twitter !

About Severalnines

Severalnines provides automation and management software for easily usable, highly available and auto-scalable cloud database platforms. ClusterControl™, the company’s flagship product, used by developers and administrators of all skill levels, addresses the full deploy-manage-monitor-scale cycle. Severalnines has enabled over 7,000 deployments to date via its popular online configurator for clustered MySQL databases.

To see who is using Severalnines today, please visit our references page.

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New Euro Partnership offers safe-haven from US Patriot Act
Severalnines and City Network launch first fully European ‘Database as a Service’

STOCKHOLM and LONDON, 23^rd November -Severalnines, provider of automation and management software for cloud database platforms, and City Network, the ‘data center in a browser’ company have announced the first fully European Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution - in beta form. The City Cloud Database Service is based and operated by companies in the European Union - offering European customers full compliance with EU Directive on Data Protection 95/46/EC and a safe haven from the reaches of the US Patriot Act.

EU customers can now benefit from the savings and flexibility enabled by cloud-based database services safe in the knowledge that they will not fall under the jurisdiction of the Patriot Act. Under the Patriot Act, data from EU users of US-owned cloud-based services can currently be shared with US law enforcement agencies without the need to tell the user.

“Small start-ups and large corporations are turning to the cloud in a bid to deploy and manage databases with as little overhead as possible - but they need to know their data is secure and that they retain the right and ability to control who accesses it,” says Vinay Joosery, chief executive officer at Severalnines.

“A fully managed database service will enable our customers to further reap the benefits of the cloud,” says Johan Christenson, Chairman at City Network. “We believe that a service owned and operated locally in the EU, and fully compliant with EU data protection laws, will be very particularly attractive for European companies. US companies with European operations will also benefit from the lower latency of a locally hosted solution.”

The MySQL based City Cloud Database Service enables companies to outsource the configuration and management of their databases and only pay for what they use. Specific benefits include:

• Web interface for easy provisioning

• Zero maintenance or administration – backups, patch management and replication handling are fully automated

• Performance Management – users have visibility of top queries and can drill-down into performance

• High Availability – failures are handled automatically to minimise downtime

• Scalability – users can add more instances at the click of a mouse

• Comprehensive user interface for administering databases; and

• Data import and export functionality to help move MySQL databases within the cloud.

The service relies on the Severalnines DataCloud platform, a database automation and management platform that helps companies run flexible databases anywhere, whether on their premises or in the cloud. It is based on City Network’s City Cloud computing platform which allows unlimited growth with a focus on stability, security and redundancy.

City Cloud Database Service is available in beta. Companies can apply for the trial by emailing dbaas@citycloud.eu. The service is available free of charge for the duration of the beta period, which will run until early 2012. More information is available on http://www.citycloud.eu/

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About Severalnines

Severalnines provides automation and management software for easily usable, highly available and auto-scalable cloud database platforms. ClusterControl™, the company’s flagship product, used by developers and administrators of all skill levels, addresses the full deploy-manage-monitor-scale cycle. Severalnines has enabled over 7,000 deployments to date via its popular online configurator for clustered MySQL® databases.

With everyone at Severalnines coming from an Open Source background and with a view to supporting other start-up organisation, the company is introducing a start-up program, whereby organisations with less than 10 employees and less than one million Euro in funding will be given free access to its enterprise software for 12 months. For information, just email startup@severalnines.com.

To see who is using Severalnines today, please visit our references page: http://severalnines.com/references

About City Network

With more than 10,000 customers across Europe City Network is one of the leading European hosting companies. Core services include cloud hosting, dedicated environments as well as shared hosting and domain services. City Network also provides high end backup services via www.onlinebackup.io. City Cloud is the cloud computing brand which you can read more about at www.citycloud.eu. You can find more information about City Network at: www.citynetworkhosting.com

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Red Hat’s $136m acquisition of open source storage vendor Gluster marks Red Hat’s biggest buy since JBoss and starts the fourth quarter with a very intersting deal. The acquisition is definitely good for Red Hat since it bolsters its Cloud Forms IaaS and OpenShift PaaS technology and strategy with storage, which is often the starting point for enterprise and service provider cloud computing deployments. The acquisition also gives Red Hat another weapon in its fight against VMware, Microsoft and others, including OpenStack, of which Gluster is a member (more on that further down). The deal is also good for Gluster given the sizeable price Red Hat is paying for the provider of open source, software-based, scale-out storage for unstructured data and also as validation of both open source and software in today’s IT and cloud computing storage.

This is exactly the kind of disruption we’ve been seeing and expecting as Linux vendors compete with new rivals in virtualization, cloud computing and different layers of the stack, including storage (VMware, Microsoft, OpenStack, Oracle, Amazon and others), as covered in our recent special report, The Changing Linux Landscape.

While the deal makes perfect sense for both Red Hat and for Gluster, it also has implications for the white hot open source cloud computing project OpenStack. There was no mention of OpenStack in Red Hat’s FAQ on the deal, but there was a reference to ongoing support for Gluster partners, of which there are many fellow OpenStack members. OpenStack was also highlighted among Gluster’s key open standards participation along with the Linux Foundation and Red Hat-led Open Virtualization Alliance oriented around KVM. Sources at both Gluster and Red Hat, which point to OpenStack support being bundled into Red Hat’s coming Fedora 16, also reiterated to me Red Hat is indeed planning to continue involvement with OpenStack around the Gluster technologies. I suspect Red Hat is looking to leverage Gluster more for its own purposes than for OpenStack’s, but I must also acknowledge Red Hat’s understanding of the value of openness, community and compatibility. Taking that idea a step further, Gluster may represent a way that Red Hat can integrate with and tap into the OpenStack community by blending it with its own community around Fedora, RHEL, JBoss, RHEV and Cloud Forms and OpenShift.

The deal also leads many to wonder whether or what may be next for Red Hat in terms of acquisition. We’ve long thought database and data management technologies were areas where we might see Red Hat building out. This was also the subject of renewed rumors recently, and we believe it might still be an attractive piece for Red Hat given the open source opportunities and targets around NoSQL technologies such as Apache Hadoop distributed data management framework and Cassandra distributed database management software. We’ve also believed systems management to be a potential place for Red Hat to further expand. Given its need to largely stay within open source, we would expect targets in this area to include GroundWork Open Source, which joins Linux and Windows systmes in its monitorig and management, and Zenoss, which works with Cisco and Red Hat rival VMware in monitoring and managing systems with its open source software. Another potential target that would increase Red Hat’s depth in open source virtualization and cloud computing is Convirture, which might also be an avenue for Red Hat to reach out to midmarket and SMB customers and channel players. Red Hat was among the non-OpenStack members we listed as potential acquirers when considering the M&A possibilities (451 subscribers) out of OpenStack.

Given its recent quarterly earnings report and topping the $1 billion annual revenue mark, Red Hat seems again to be bucking the bad economy. We’ve written before in 2008 and more recently how bad economic conditions can be good for open source software. Red Hat is atop the list of open source vendors that suffer as traditional, enterprise IT customers such as banks freeze spending or worse, fail. However, the company’s deal for Gluster is yet another sign it is thriving and expanding despite economic difficulty and uncertainty.

You don’t have to just look at Red Hat’s earnings or take our word for it. On Jim Cramer’s ‘Mad Money’ this week, we heard Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst praised for Red Hat performance and traction where most companies and many economists are throwing the blame: financial services, government and Europe. Cramer credited Red Hat for a ’spectacular quarter’ and allowed Whitehurst to tout the benefits of the Gluster technology and acquisition, particularly Gluster’s software-based storage technology that matches cloud computing. It was quite a contrast to the news out of Oracle Open World, where hardware was a focal point.

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Back in 2010 I stopped buying test servers from Dell and began building them from components using Intel i7 processors, X58-based mother boards, and modular power supplies from Ultra.  It was a good way to learn about hardware.  Besides, it was getting old to pay for Dell desktop systems with Windows, which I would then wipe off when installing Linux.  Between the educational value of understanding the systems better, selecting the exact components I wanted, and being able to fix problems quickly, it has been one of the best investments I have ever made.  And it didn't cost any more than equivalent Dell servers.

For this reason, a couple of recent articles about computer hardware caught my attention.  First, Dell is losing business as companies like Facebook build their own customized servers.  Open source database performance experts like Peter Zaitsev have been talking about full-stack optimization including hardware for years.  Google built their original servers using off-the-shelf parts.  Vertical integration of applications and hardware has since gone mainstream.  If you deploy the same application(s) on many machines, balancing characteristics like cost, performance, and power utilization is no longer a specialist activity but a necessity of business.  It's not just cutting out the Microsoft tax but many other optimizations as well.

Second, developments in hardware itself are making custom systems more attractive to a wide range of users.  A recent blog post by Bunnie Huang describes how decreases in the slope of CPU clock speed increase over time mean you can get better cost/performance by building optimized, application-specific systems now than waiting for across-the-board improvements.  Stable standards also drive down the difficulty of rolling your own.  Components on mid-range servers are sufficiently standardized it is easier to build basic systems from components than to put together a bicycle from scratch.  Try building your own wheels sometime if you don't believe this.

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I chatted today about VMware's Cloud Foundry with Roger Bodamer, the EVP of products and technology at 10Gen. 10Gen's MongoDB is one of three back-ends (along with MySQL and Redis) supported from the start by Cloud Foundry.

If I understand Cloud Foundry and VMware's declared "Open PaaS" strategy, it should fill a gap in services. Suppose you are a developer who wants to loosen the bonds between your programs and the hardware they run on, for the sake of flexibility, fast ramp-up, or cost savings. Your choices are:

• An IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) product, which hands you an emulation of bare metal where you run an appliance (which you may need to build up yourself) combining an operating system, application, and related services such as DNS, firewall, and a database.

  You can implement IaaS on your own hardware using a virtualization solution such as VMware's products, Azure, Eucalyptus, or RPM. Alternatively, you can rent space on a service such as Amazon's EC2 or Rackspace.

• A PaaS (Platform as a Service) product, which operates at a much higher level. A vendor such as handles all the back-end services and just exposes an API to which you program.

By now, the popular APIs for IaaS have been satisfactorily emulated so that you can move your application fairly easily from one vendor to another. Some APIs, notably OpenStack, were designed explicitly to eliminate the friction of moving an app and increase the competition in the IaaS space.

Until now, the PaaS situation was much more closed. VMware claims to do for PaaS what Eucalyptus and OpenStack want to do for IaaS. Vmware has a conventional cloud service called Cloud Foundry, but will offer the code under an open source license. Right Scale has already announced that you can use it to run a Cloud Foundry application on EC2. And a large site could run Cloud Foundry on its own hardware, just as it runs VMware.

Cloud Foundry is aggressively open middleware, offering a flexible way to administer applications with a variety of options on the top and bottom. As mentioned already, you can interact with MongoDB, MySQL, or Redis as your storage. (However, you have to use the particular API offered by each back-end; there is no common Cloud Foundry interface that can be translated to the chosen back end.) You can use Spring, Rails, or Node.js as your programming environment.

So open source Cloud Foundry may prove to be a step toward more openness in the cloud arena, as many people call for and I analyzed in a series of articles last year. VMware will, if the gamble pays off, gain more customers by hedging against lock-in and will sell its tools to those who host PaaS on their own servers. The success of the effort will depend on the robustness of the solution, ease of management, and the rate of adoption by programmers and sites.

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I chatted today about VMware's Cloud Foundry with Roger Bodamer, the EVP of products and technology at 10Gen. 10Gen's MongoDB is one of three back-ends (along with MySQL and Redis) supported from the start by Cloud Foundry.

If I understand Cloud Foundry and VMware's declared "Open PaaS" strategy, it should fill a gap in services. Suppose you are a developer who wants to loosen the bonds between your programs and the hardware they run on, for the sake of flexibility, fast ramp-up, or cost savings. Your choices are:

• An IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) product, which hands you an emulation of bare metal where you run an appliance (which you may need to build up yourself) combining an operating system, application, and related services such as DNS, firewall, and a database.

  You can implement IaaS on your own hardware using a virtualization solution such as VMware's products, Azure, Eucalyptus, or RPM. Alternatively, you can rent space on a service such as Amazon's EC2 or Rackspace.

• A PaaS (Platform as a Service) product, which operates at a much higher level. A vendor such as handles all the back-end services and just exposes an API to which you program.

By now, the popular APIs for IaaS have been satisfactorily emulated so that you can move your application fairly easily from one vendor to another. Some APIs, notably OpenStack, were designed explicitly to eliminate the friction of moving an app and increase the competition in the IaaS space.

Until now, the PaaS situation was much more closed. VMware claims to do for PaaS what Eucalyptus and OpenStack want to do for IaaS. Vmware has a conventional cloud service called Cloud Foundry, but will offer the code under an open source license. Right Scale has already announced that you can use it to run a Cloud Foundry application on EC2. And a large site could run Cloud Foundry on its own hardware, just as it runs VMware.

Cloud Foundry is aggressively open middleware, offering a flexible way to administer applications with a variety of options on the top and bottom. As mentioned already, you can interact with MongoDB, MySQL, or Redis as your storage. (However, you have to use the particular API offered by each back-end; there is no common Cloud Foundry interface that can be translated to the chosen back end.) You can use Spring, Rails, or Node.js as your programming environment.

So open source Cloud Foundry may prove to be a step toward more openness in the cloud arena, as many people call for and I analyzed in a series of articles last year. VMware will, if the gamble pays off, gain more customers by hedging against lock-in and will sell its tools to those who host PaaS on their own servers. The success of the effort will depend on the robustness of the solution, ease of management, and the rate of adoption by programmers and sites.

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This Friday at SCaLE 9x in Los Angeles, CA there will be a special build an open source cloud day teaching users how to use technologies from Cloud.com, OpenStack, Opscode and Zenoss to deploy, configure, manage and monitor infrastructure-as-a-service using open source software.

Here’s an overview of the program:

“Build a Cloud Day” will be dedicated to teaching users how to build and manage a cloud computing environment using free and open source software. The program is designed to expose attendees to the concepts and best practices around deploying cloud computing infrastructure. Attendees should expect to learn how to deploy a cloud computing environment using Cloudstack CE. In addition Build a Cloud Day attendees will learn about tools( Opscode Chef and Zenoss Core) that can be used to handle the dynamics of a cloud computing environment including automatic provisioning and configuration and monitoring.

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9:00 – 9:15: Welcome – Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, Cloud.com

We’ll kick off the day reviewing the program with attendees and gathering information so we can tailor the program to best address the needs and experience level of the audience.

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9:15 – 11:15: Build Your Private Cloud – Cloud.com

Using CloudStack Community Edition (CE), free and open source cloud computing software to build a private cloud. During the training attendees will be instructed on how to install Cloudstack CE to manage virtual infrastructure in a private cloud computing configuration. At the conclusion of the Build a Private section users will have the knowledge needed to create a simple private cloud network.

Cloudstack CE is an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform available under the GPLv3 license, which enables users to build, manage and deploy compute cloud environments. The community edition is based on the latest, leading edge features and bits that the Cloud.com team of engineers are working on and is supported by both our engineers and our open source community.

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11:15-11:45: Openstack – Rackspace

OpenStack Deployment and Integration Engineer Jordan Rinke will give a brief overview of the Openstack project.

OpenStack is a collection of open source technologies delivering a
massively scalable cloud operating system. OpenStack is currently
developing two interrelated projects: OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Object Storage.
OpenStack Compute is software to provision and manage large groups of
virtual private servers, and OpenStack Object Storage is software for
creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of commodity
servers to store terabytes or even petabytes of data. OpenStack is sponsored by Rackspace, a leader in web hosting and managed infrastructure.

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11:45 – 12:45: Lunch – Catered

We will bring in a simple catered lunch (We’ll do our best to accomadate all dietary restrictions).

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12:45 – 2:45: Automatic Configuration of Your Cloud – Opscode

This training section will cover deploying cloud infrastructure automatically using Opscode Chef. We will be cover installation basics of Chef clients and working with a Chef server. Other topics will include: creating Chef repositories, writing cookbooks and advanced uses of the command line utility Knife.

Chef is a systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of automated configuration management to your entire infrastructure. With Chef you can:

• Manage your servers by writing code, not by running commands.
• Dynamically integrate your applications, databases and other infrastructure.
• Easily configure applications that require knowledge about your entire infrastructure (“What systems are running my application?”, “What is the current master database server?”)

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3:00 – 5:00: Monitoring Your Cloud – Zenoss

A representative from the Zenoss Core project will provide training on how to monitor a cloud computing environment. The presentation will give an overview of the Zenoss Core management platform. Attendees will also learn how to install Zenoss Core, add devices and send alerts based on conditions within your cloud computing infrastructure.

Zenoss Core is an open source IT monitoring product that delivers the functionality to effectively manage the configuration, health, performance of networks, servers and applications through a single, integrated software package.

All devices in the environment can be modeled – networks, servers, software, and applications – as well as custom devices such as power supplies and temperature sensors. The model provides logical and physical grouping allowing you to map devices to business systems, locations, and responsible people. The model is populated by the auto-discovery process, supplemented by the web services API, XML import/export, or manual user input.Collections of monitoring templates are called ZenPacks, and more than 100 are available.

5:00 -5:10 Special Guest – Arista Networks

Cloud architectures have changed the design requirements for high-performance networking infrastructure and a 100% Linux based, fully extensible networking solution can bring your Cloud to the next level. Arista Networks gives a 10-minute overview of the EOS Extensible Operating Systems and reviews some of the tricks of the trade that can make deploying, managing and maintaining a best-in-class network infrastructure easier than ever before.

Technorati Tags: cloud computing, cloud.com, opensource, OpenStack, Opscode

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Topics for this podcast:

*Oracle, Java, the Apache Software Foundation and open source
*An update on some open source database and data management players
*CorraTech grows with support for open source application alternatives
*Red Hat-Makara acquisition analysis and impact
*Linux kernel report shows strong support, but what now for Novell?

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When it comes to cloud computing, people want to command nearly endless resources while still being able to deploy, run and consume a distributed solution anywhere and anytime. The reality, however, is not that simple.

Cloud computing relies on the interconnection of resources. Network latency usually plays a critical role in the application flow from the front end, through the middle tier to the database and all the way back again.

Setting mobile access aside for the sake of this discussion, the performance one would get would depend on the proximity to the cloud entry point (datacenter). For example, if your SaaS application is deployed in the Amazon EC2 West Availability Zone, users on the East Coast would not get the same level of performance as those on the West Coast. That’s reality at work – no bending of physical laws.

One way to work around this issue is to deploy the application in several geographical locations (in this case East and West Coasts) so that the majority of users closer to each location will enjoy better performance.

Pursuing this solution assumes a couple key architectural and configuration considerations:

1. The application is stateless and therefore agnostic of the servers that are actually active in the flow.
2. The database can be replicated to several locations.
3. The database’s replicas can operate in multi-master mode.

Running a database with multiple replicas is usually done using a single master that ships updates to several passive copies. The passive copies can be used to offload read operations, but not writes.

Regardless of the exact replication method, failing over (and ultimately back again) from master to a stand-by passive node takes time and can be painful. And if you need to have your database support heavy-duty online transaction processing that entails both reads and writes simultaneously, in several locations — that’s where it gets interesting.

Xeround addressed this specific challenge early on when we designed our solution as a subscriber database management system for telecoms. The very nature of the solution had to be distributed, serving roaming users in multiple locations — a core GSM function. Users would use and access the nearest database.

After moving to the cloud, we refreshed this core capability and applied the same principles to multiple copies of the same database that span multiple locations. In fact, since our core technology allows us to effectively and transparently distribute the database across multiple nodes, it is not really an issue if the same data is spread across multiple nodes or locations – the basic logic remains the same.

At this point, we’re often asked about the “CAP Theorem.” While it’s true that we can’t defy the laws of physics, we can certainly track, manage and synchronize multiple copies of the database and clear conflicts as and where applicable.

To do this, we keep a transaction log constantly updated in the same way we write transactions to multiple replicas. We organically provide this service out of the gate to ensure high availability. We’ve dubbed this concept “Active Global”, because groups of geographically-dispersed clusters of MySQL are accessed and managed locally while they’re synchronized with a top-level, global logic layer. Active Global ensures for near real-time “clearance” anytime, anywhere.

Read more about the challenges databases face when running on a cloud environment on our Cloud Challenges for Databases Series.

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In his recent column, CNET’s Dave Rosenberg asks “Are databases in the cloud really all that different?”. The short answer: Yes, They ARE!

Addressing Rosenberg’s point, I described the 4 key issues every system architect should take into account when designing their database for the cloud — and why achieving them on a Cloud environment might be more complex, tedious to manage, and way more expensive than you might think.

Basically, you need:

1. Replicable, high-availability set-up - because the cloud is an unstable, unpredictable, environment.
2. Database that scales elastically - and scaling out by adding nodes is harder on a cloud infrastructure.
3. Distributed databases – which require building the logic to handle conflicts, network and latency problems.
4. True Multi-tenancy - And not a simple standard SQL database installed in multiple copies on the same virtual machine – which can cause more headaches and management overhead to keep running.

This is all hard work – we know..

In his review, Rosenberg also describes why relational databases are here to stay, and why NoSQL isn’t necessarily the answer for your cloud concerns.

At Xeround, we’ve always felt the answer lies in making SQL Cloud-able – for REAL! Our technology for managing data in the cloud provides both the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases, along with the simplicity and scalability as of NoSQL data stores.

Xeround SQL Database, offered for both public clouds (IaaS) and private clouds, was designed specifically for the cloud, to give you multi-tenancy, high-availability, auto-scaling and self-healing – all without being bogged down by the development, management and expenses overhead.

If you haven’t tried us out yet- sign up for the private beta and check it out for yourself!

You can read more on CNET’s Are databases in the cloud really all that different?

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