July 30, 2008

NY Panel on cloud computing

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Ronald Bradford of 42SQL was one of the panel speakers at A Panel on Cloud Computing chaired by Murat Aktihanoglu of Unype held July 29th in New York. Other panelists included Mike Nolet - AppNexus, Jamal Mazhar - Kaavo, Hans Zaunere - New York PHP, Hank Williams - KloudShare (stealth - see Hank’s excellent blog) and Geir Magnusson - 10gen.

With four providers of varying services in the cloud space, and two independent industry experts and observers, the questions and discussions provided for a great amount of useful information.

Keywords that met with active communication included Infrastructure as a Services, Tools as a Service, Platform as a Service, Data Security, Data Consistency, Standards - creation and adoption, Open Source - is it important, Latency, Economics of Scale. Even Microsoft, Assembly Language and Cobol didn’t escape the evening.

One memorable quote was “When your tools change, what solutions can you now provide?”

July 28, 2008

Supporting the Drizzle project

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Drizzle is a new lightweight SQL database for the Web and Cloud that comes from a fork of the MySQL database.

With an active community and contribution list from several companies and individuals, 42SQL is proud to host and support the Drizzle Master BuildBot.

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