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We’ve just recently brought our Tungsten Cluster (AMI) up to the current release level of our flagship product, Tungsten Cluster, and would like to invite users to give it a test drive!

This blog provides a refresher outline of what’s involved in our Tungsten Cluster Competitive Comparison program and Tungsten Cluster highlights as well. Read on and find out why Tungsten Cluster is a better and more cost-effective overall MySQL HA/DR/Geo-Scale solution compared to other options in the market.

We’ve just recently brought our Continuent Tungsten AMIs up to the current release level of our flagship products, Tungsten Cluster and Tungsten Replicator, and would like to invite users to give them a test drive!

Introducing the new Continuent Tungsten Startup Pricing: Give your business the growth infrastructure it deserves with our best-of-breed MySQL HA / DR / Geo-Scale solutions - at Startup Pricing!

This blog post outlines our new annual Tungsten Clustering pricing model for Tungsten Cluster software subscriptions and related 24/7 support.

This is the kick-off of our Tungsten MySQL Use Case Webinar Series presented by Continuent CEO Eero Teerikorpi. Our first three webinars offer a choice of topics ranging from Global MySQL Availability, MySQL Data Protection to MySQL High Availability.

Explore and de-mystify the various Tungsten Cluster Topologies. Get a clear understanding of each topology and how they compare.

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

When it comes to that little piece of software with a $0 price tag, just take a moment and ask yourself if it really is going to be free.  Yes, there are many perfectly valid use cases for using OSS software, but ensure you fully understand the risks and potential business imapact from an outage first.

Watch the replay of a webinar with our colleagues from Datavail and hosted by DBTA during which we discuss whether “free” is really good enough for business-critical MySQL database environments.

Why does the DIY approach fail to deliver vs. the Tungsten Clustering solution for geo-distributed MySQL multimaster deployments? Before we dive into the 10 reasons, note why commercially-supported enterprise software is less risky and in fact less costly.

This is the first in a series of blog articles that will discuss the changing landscape of open source and money. Or more specifically open source databases and money. And even more specifically MySQL and its all variants (AWS Aurora, MariaDB, Percona Server, RDS/MySQL) and money...In general, there are the following type of companies in the MySQL commercial ecosystem, in order of total annual revenue and addressable market size.