Author Archives: Avigail Ofer

Discontinuing of Xeround Cloud Database Public Service

We are deeply sorry to announce that Xeround’s public cloud offering will be discontinued soon. All Xeround FREE database instances will be terminated on May 8th, and the paid plans terminated on May 15th. Xeround’s leadership forum has recently decided … Continue reading

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Mobile Applications and the Need for Auto-Scaling: Dogfight’s 3 Million Players Fly High with Xeround

Mobile gaming applications are often characterized with fluctuating demand patterns and sudden spikes in throughput- either when there’s a tournament, or during certain hours of the day or periods throughout the year, when more users play the game. The cloud has all but become the standard for mobile and gaming apps, allowing developers to quickly deploy and go-to-market with their applications, and providing the scalability needed to accommodate the varying demand patterns of those apps – that often start small, but can sky-rocket at any moment. Continue reading

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Xeround’s Cloud Database Paid Plans Now Available on HP Cloud Services

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More than 3,000 users have created their free Xeround DB instance on HP Cloud Services – making it one of the most popular services running on HP Cloud today! We’re happy to announce that, in addition to our free plan, we’ve … Continue reading

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MySQL Disasters and Xeround’s Cloud Database [Infographic]

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Interested in seeing the biggest MySQL “earthquakes” of all time? The infographic below tells their stories, including the lessons learned after each database failure, from reputable sources including Wired, Slashdot, TechCrunch and ZDNet. Continue reading

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SIGNIFICANT Performance Improvements (and other goodies) with Xeround’s Latest Release

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We’re excited to announce our latest product upgrade out today, which includes some key enhancements to Xeround’s Cloud Database service.
First and foremost, we’ve achieved SIGNIFICANT performance improvements: Check out the updated benchmark comparing our service to Amazon’s RDS (single, and Multi-A-Z) and to Rackspace’s MySQL cloud database. Continue reading

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NEW: Xeround Cloud Database Now Supports Full Text Search

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We’re happy to announce that our latest product release now supports Full Text Search via Full Text Index. Continue reading

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Using Cloud9 IDE?

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Watch this short video to learn how to use Xeround Cloud Database for MySQL with your Cloud9 IDE project. Continue reading

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