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People approach Continuent for many reasons, including: MySQL Continuous Operations: their business is using MySQL for business-critical applications that require zero downtime, including for maintenance updates MySQL Performance: their application performance and user experience are suffering due to a faltering MySQL backend MySQL Scaling and geo-scaling: they're scaling up and taking prudent preventative measures to lay a strong foundation based on anticipated growth, within region, cross the regions a

How to build a multi-region, multi-master MySQL cloud database back- end capable of serving a global, high-volume cloud contact center: this global SaaS provider is a Cloud Contact Center solution provider, who needs to deliver up-to-date data to clients as quickly as possible.

This case study of a global SaaS provider looks at how our customer migrated from Amazon RDS to a truly global, geo-distributed multi-master Tungsten Clustering solution.

Version 6+ of Tungsten Clustering comes with a host of improvements for your Multi-Site Multi-Master topology (MSMM); this is partly why it has a new name: Composite Master-Master (CMM). Probably the most notable improvement is that the Managers are more aware. What does that mean?

This case study blog discusses a Telco provider that specializes in roaming, i.e. complete connectivity solutions around the world. It is our third ‘multi-primary MySQL’ blog in our Continuent MySQL Case Study series.

For this next ‘multi-master MySQL’ blog in our Continuent MySQL Case Study series, we’re focussing on Financial Services Saas providers.

This next blog in our Continuent MySQL Case Study series is a sub-series on the topic of ‘multi-master MySQL’, in which we cover three multi-master MySQL use cases focusing on e-commerce to start with, financial services and telecommunications.

This case study blog discusses how one of our customers, a global SaaS provider for e-signature services, who used to run MySQL master/slave clusters, initially using native MySQL replication started using Tungsten Clustering; enabling them to deploy hybrid-cloud MySQL clusters for continuous operations and migration purposes, while preventing lock-in to any specific cloud vendor.

This is the first in a series of use case blogs. It discusses the concept of ‘Geo-scale MySQL’ - or how to build a global, multi-region MySQL cloud back-end capable of serving hundreds of user accounts.

The Slow Software Movement is spreading with SaaS companies going global...and their software is the furthest from “slow.” In this blog, a Customer Success Manager at Continuent writes about some observations in her five years of listening to customers and prospects.

Database Administration is a tough, often ungrateful job. Especially if you run a 24/7 business-critical MySQL or MariaDB deployment.

This blog explains data replication and clustering in a way that anybody can understand.