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This month we’re celebrating our 4th - or is it our 20th? - anniversary: read about our history and where we are today on the path to more years of MySQL availability and continuous operations.

You can now watch the replay of our High Volume MySQL HA Use Case Webinar: SaaS Continuous Operations with Terabytes of Data; and learn how to guarantee continuous operations for a SaaS provider with billions of daily transaction and terabytes of data with Tungsten MySQL Clusters.

Watch the replay of our Geo-Scale MySQL webinar: Guaranteed Global Game Access for Hundreds of Millions of Players Worldwide - Cloud-Based Active/Passive Tungsten MySQL Clusters @ Riot Games.

https://www.continuent.com/resources/webinars/global-mysql-availability-saas-cloud-contact-center-secures-continuous-operationsWatch the replay of this webinar with Eero Teerikorpi, CEO at Continuent, for a walk-through (including a live demo) of how the Continuent Team helped Vonage build a multi-region active/active MySQL Tungsten Cluster in AWS Cloud serving a global high-volume Cloud Contact Center.

This blog discusses some best practices for using multiple filesystems on MySQL database servers and how to achieve the best performance with them, while avoiding some of the possible pitfalls.

Do-it-Yourself (DIY), database migration; what other approaches are there to challenges of MySQL availability, reliability, scalability and application performance?

Continuent Tungsten enables greater application availability and performance especially across WAN, it saves tons of manual labor and headache, it’s backed by premium 24/7/365 support, and it enables all sorts of new freedom and possibilities for data infrastructure including multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and advanced, real-time analytics.

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 and

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.

In this blog post we discuss importing CSV data into a Tungsten Cluster.

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

In this blog post we will discuss how to best integrate various Continuent-bundled cluster monitoring solutions with PagerDuty (pagerduty.com), a popular alerting service.

In this blog post, we talk about how to run applications across multiple clouds (i.e. AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) using Tungsten Clustering. You want your business-critical applications to withstand node, datacenter, availability-zone or regional failures. For SaaS apps, you also want to bring data close to your application users for faster response times and a better user experience. With cross-cloud capability, Tungsten also helps avoid lock-in to any particular cloud provider.