As with other breakthrough developments, startups often lead the way; then the tycoons of the world want to join in on the fun :) You know you’re in the right field, and that there’s a genuine demand from the market, when the big guys want in! Continue reading
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Cloud Database: The Big Guys Want In
Posted in Events & Conferences, MySQL Cloud Database
Tagged google, MySQL, oracle, sql cloud
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Xeround’s Database-as-a-Service: Watch Our Interview at Strata Conference
Check out this short interview taken with Razi Sharir, Xeround’s CEO, at the recent Strata Conference held in New York last month. Continue reading
Connecting Your MySQL-Heroku Application to Xeround Cloud Database
The release of the GA version of Xeround’s Add-on for Heroku a couple of months ago has been generating a lot of interest in the Ruby community, with many developers already using Xeround to power their Heroku MySQL applications. We’ve … Continue reading
What Do You Expect From a Cloud DB – Round #2
At the recent MySQL C&E we got a chance to catch up with MySQL users and to hear what they had to say about the challenges they face with their MySQL database in the cloud, and their expectations from an elastic database system. This is the 2nd installment of short video interviews recorded at the #mysqlconf. Continue reading
Xeround Pay-per-Use Pricing Explained (Including Amazon RDS Cost Comparison)
After we announced the general availability of the Xeround Cloud Database a few weeks ago, we noticed a couple of people on Twitter and other places who were confused about our pricing. We realize that a service such as Xeround — and its pricing model — is new and unfamiliar, so we wanted to clarify some things in a longer post. Continue reading
What’s Next for Cloud Service Providers?
The hardware that makes up the cloud infrastructure is being continuously improved and optimized, so that over time it will be standardized and commoditized.. Continue reading
Cloud Database Panel @ GigaOm Structure Conference: Watch the Video Recording
Razi Sharir – Xeround’s CEO – participated in a panel yesterday, discussing the challenges and the opportunities for cloud databases. Joined by Jim Starkey from NimbusDB, Mike Miller of Cloudant and Barry Zane of ParAccel – the four discussed each of their unique approaches to solving the way RDBMSs scale in the cloud environment; What are the common use cases and applications to benefit from each solution; How they address availability issues and hardware issues in the cloud, support multi-tenancy, and more. Continue reading
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