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New Releases: Continuent Tungsten Version 6.1.4 and Tungsten Dashboard Version 1.0.8
Continuent is pleased to announce the 6.1.4 versions of its Tungsten Clustering and Tungsten Replicator software products for MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server.
The new releases introduce support for the MySQL 8.0.20 binlog compression feature, improvements and fixes to command line tools, and more.
We’re also announcing the release of Tungsten Dashboard 1.0.8.
Discover Tungsten Clustering for MySQL - In Its New Setting
We’ve created a new space on our website for our flagship product Tungsten Clustering. This blog invites you to take a tour of the new product section and to get in touch with us for your MySQL MySQL High Availability, Disaster Recovery and/or Geo-Clustering needs.
Introducing The New continuent.com - The Home of The MySQL Availability Company
Introducing our new website and its many new features and content elements: the home of Continuent - the MySQL Availability Company.
Known Issue Announcement for Tungsten Products and MySQL 8
On Monday April 27th, MySQL released a much anticipated patch release 8.0.20. Along with many bug fixes and improvements, a new property was introduced - binlog-transaction-compression. During our own testing we have discovered an incompatibility with this property. Read on for more information.
Big Data Analytics, Reporting, and Backups using a Cluster-Slave
An overview of a Tungsten topology that doesn’t get much attention: the Cluster-Slave, which is an easy way to get data resiliency and integration, with features that make it ideal for big data analytics, reporting, and backups.
Use Case: Geo-Scale Multi-Master MySQL with Disaster Recovery
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.
New Training Video: How To Get Started With The Tungsten Replicator AMI
Watch this 30min training video on how to get started with Tungsten Replicator AMI and how to avail of it on Amazon Marketplace; including a step-by-step demonstration.
Use Case: Geo-Scale Multi-Master MySQL
This use case 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.
Use Case: MySQL HA and Disaster Recovery
This MySQL high availability and disaster recovery use case is based on a customer of ours who is a government-regulated lottery service and who needs 24x7x365 operations as well as be able to perform maintenance without any disruption to their public facing gaming website.
cctrl> Cluster Control View for Composite Master-Master Tungsten Clustering for MySQL / MariaDB / Percona MySQL
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?
Use Case: Geo-distributed Multi-primary MySQL for Telco Providers
This use case 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 Use Case series.
Keeping the Lights on the Continuent Way: Working from Home Tips & Tricks
Our colleague Chris Parker covers a few of the approaches he found that made the transition of working in an office to working from home easier for him (something that a lot of us experience at the moment). He also takes a look at the technical side and what we at Continuent use to conduct our day to day business and Keep the Lights on. Including a Great Bake Off!