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Global data access can greatly expand the reach of your business. Continuent's multi-site multi-master (MSMM) solutions enable applications to accept write traffic in multiple locations across on-premises and vCloud Air. This includes the following imp...

Users seeking high availability, disaster recovery and zero downtime maintenance operation for business-critical MySQL applications face confusing choices. Is multi-master or master/slave clustering better? What about synchronous versus asynchronous...

I have a BoF session next week at OSCON next week: Migrating Data from MySQL and Oracle into Hadoop The session is at 7pm Tuesday night – look for rooms D135 and/or D137/138. Correction: We are now in  E144 on Tuesday with the Hadoop get together first at 7pm, and the Data Migration to follow at … Continue reading "Hadoop BoF Session at OSCON"

I have a BoF session next week at OSCON next week: Migrating Data from MySQL and Oracle into Hadoop The session is at 7pm Tuesday night – look for rooms D135 and/or D137/138. Correction: We...

We had really great webinar on Replicating to/from Oracle earliest this month, and you can view the recording of that Webinar here. A good sign of how great a Webinar was is the questions that come afterwards, and we didn’t get through them all. so here are all the questions and answers for the entire … Continue reading "Replicating Oracle Webinar Question Follow-up"

I’m pleased to say that Continuent will be at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose next week (3-5 June). Sadly I will not be attending as I’m taking an exam next week, but my colleagues Robert Hodges, Eero Teerikorpi and Petri Versunen will be there to answer any questions you have about Continuent products, and, of … Continue reading "Continuent at Hadoop Summit"

One of the key platforms I’ve been testing on for the MySQL to Hadoop replication has been Cloudera, largely driven by customer requirements, but it’s also one of the easiest way to get started with Hadoop. What I’m even more pleased about is the fact that we are proud to announce that Tungsten Replicator 3.0 is … Continue reading "Tungsten Replicator 3.0 is Cloudera Enterprise 5 Certified"

Hopefully by now you have already seen that we are working on Hadoop replication. I’m happy to say that it is going really well. I’ve managed to push a few terabytes of data and different data sets through into Hadoop on Cloudera, HortonWorks, and Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce (EMR). For those who have been following my … Continue reading "Continuent Replication to Hadoop – Now in Stereo!"