The release candidate of MySQL 5.5 is now available for download, Oracle announced on Sunday at its OpenWorld event in San Francisco. The company said that the new release brings improvements in ...

As the world's most popular open source database, MySQL's speed, reliability, and ease of use have made user-generated content and social media available to the masses. In the 18 months since the ...

Backups, snapshots, cloning and replication are all valuable ways of protecting the organisation’s data. In this article, we’ll look at replication, in particular between storage arrays. Key to this ...

When companies make duplicate copies of enterprise data for backup, disaster recovery or other business purposes, they are said to be replicating data. Such duplicate copies of data can reside locally ...

Replication excels at providing immediate data availability, but it shouldn’t be the sole safeguard against human errors, data corruption, or cyberattacks. Data replication has stood the test of time, ...

remote replication is a well-established practice that can replace traditional backup and enhance disaster recovery . But, remote replication can be deployed in a variety of ways, so what data ...

I just got a bomb dropped on me and I turn to the hive mind to confirm that what I think I know is correct Management wants costs (within the next 2 weeks) on a distributed data center architecture ...

The Minneapolis-based vendor introduced two new software modules for its Storage Center, a SAN appliance that works with Fibre Channel and/or SATA hard drives, said CEO Phil Soran. The first, Data ...

The Minneapolis-based storage vendor on Monday introduced two software modules for its Storage Center, a SAN appliance that works with Fibre Channel and/or SATA hard drives, said Phil Soran, the ...