The release candidate of MySQL 5.5 is now available for download, Oracle announced on Sunday at its OpenWorld event in San Francisco. The company said that the new release brings improvements in ...

As the world's most popular open source database, MySQL's speed, reliability, and ease of use have made user-generated content and social media available to the masses. In the 18 months since the ...

I just got a bomb dropped on me and I turn to the hive mind to confirm that what I think I know is correct Management wants costs (within the next 2 weeks) on a distributed data center architecture ...

Backups, snapshots and replication are key methods of data protection. We look at how and why they should form part of a comprehensive enterprise data protection strategy. In this article, we’ll look ...

When companies make duplicate copies of enterprise data for backup, disaster recovery or other business purposes, they are said to be replicating data. Such duplicate copies of data can reside locally ...

Replication excels at providing immediate data availability, but it shouldn’t be the sole safeguard against human errors, data corruption, or cyberattacks. Data replication has stood the test of time, ...