| MySQL Bulletin for UK and Ireland - Sept 2008
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Sun Strikes Multi-Million Dollar Deal with Leading ERP Software Company to Deploy MySQL Enterprise and GlassFish Solutions
New Customer Stesud Deploys Open Source Application Server and Database Platform to Reduce Enterprise IT Costs and Improve Overall Performance
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sept. 9, 2008 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the addition of the leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor Stesud to a growing list of customers that have adopted and deployed Sun's open source MySQL™ database and GlassFish™ application server software. This Belgium-based enterprise company joins Australian online travel pioneer Wotif.com and hundreds of other companies that now rely on MySQL and GlassFish as a lower-cost, higher-performance alternative to traditional database and application server software.
To hear Sun's executive vice-president of Global Sales and Services Peter Ryan discuss the Stesud deal, see the latest Sun Headlines Customer Corner show at www.sun.com/news.
"As a leader in open source software, Sun bet on open source as an enterprise business model years ago, and the adoption curve we're seeing in 2008 validates that move. Companies from around the globe and from all business sectors are shifting to open source solutions, including Sun's open source Java™ software, as well as OpenSolaris™ as their operating system," said Rich Green, executive vice president of Software, Sun Microsystems.
Stesud: Open Source Makes Sense
When it identified that its existing software infrastructure needed refreshing, Belgium-based St?sud looked to Java as the technology upon which to build the company's new platform. An ERP provider with eGovernment clients that include the Belgian government, St?sud evaluated several solutions and selected Sun's GlassFish application server. As part of this multi-million dollar deal, St?sud also employed Sun's MySQL Enterprise™ subscription, allowing the company to dependably migrate to a more scalable and reliable Web database architecture for the future. Selected for its competitive pricing and performance levels, this deployment will allow St?sud to run its existing applications, in addition to new ones that it previously would have been unable to support.
"Our customers expect and demand the highest levels of software availability and performance imaginable, considering that Stesud's ERP solution is central to the functioning of major businesses and even governments," said Benoit Lemaire, CEO of Stesud. "Java-based GlassFish was the first piece of the puzzle we identified to meet our stringent new infrastructure requirements. As soon as Sun acquired MySQL, we decided to employ it as our new database rather than Oracle. With Sun behind both GlassFish and MySQL, it was the best open source infrastructure combination for our needs and for our customers' operations."
For more details on these products, visit: http://www.glassfish.org and http://www.mysql.com.
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MySQL Conference
With less than a month to go before the 2008 MySQL Northern European Conference you should hurry up and register if you haven't done so already. This year's Conference looks like it will be more popular than ever with 200+ attendees and a host of MySQL experts and customers lined up to talk about MySQL now and in the future. This is the premier European MySQL event of the year and so don't miss your opportunity to be a part of the action. For more information please visit:
http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/european-conferences/2008/
Also, we are arranging a meetup for the same evening in a pub near to the Customer Conference location. See "London MySQL Meetup" below.
Upcoming MySQL Training Courses
MySQL Performance Tuning
- Do you need to manage an increasing amount of data in your MySQL applications?
- Do you want to monitor, diagnose problem areas and tune MySQL for optimal performance?
- Do you want to write queries that take advantage of the MySQL 5.0 performance enhancements dealing with queries and indexing?
- Do you want to Evaluates the application architecture for efficient design, structure, caching, number of connections and other factors affecting performance
Then MySQL 5.0 Performance Tuning is the class for you! The MySQL 5.0 Performance Tuning course is designed for Database Administrators and others who wish to monitor and tune MySQL. This course will prepare each student with the skills needed to utilize tools for monitoring, evaluating and tuning. Students will evaluate the architecture, learn to use the tools, configure the database for performance, tune application and SQL code, tune the server, examine the storage engines, assess the application architecture, and learn general tuning concepts. Availability:
MySQL for Database Administrators - Is your MySQL database secure? Do your users have the correct privileges and access rights?
- Is your MySQL database operating at optimal efficiency? Do you want to increase the performance of your database and make sure it scales?
- Do you want to save time using features like Stored Procedures, Triggers and Views?
- Do you want to utilize the new enterprise features of MySQL 5.0?
Then MySQL for DBAs is the class for you! An Authorised MySQL instructor will teach you how to properly install MySQL, create and execute Backup Strategies, create secure Stored Procedures to update and access data and more!
This instructor led, hands-on class will teach you how to secure users privileges, set resource limitations, and access controls. In addition, you will learn multiple new 5.0 features such as creating and using Stored Procedures, Triggers and Views.
Availability:
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- Do you need to ensure that the MySQL database will experience a minimal loss of availability over time?
- Do you want to increase the availability for MySQL?
- Do you need to be able to present a MySQL high availability business case to the managerial positions which will make the final decision?
Then you will find MySQL High Availability is the course for you! This course is designed for experienced database administrators and system architects that want to analyze and form a basis of understanding different high availability options, including clustering and replication solutions within MySQL. This course will provide the tools required to make the decision of what high availability solution is appropriate and how to implement a system with the correct design. Availability:
Upcoming Webinars
MySQL Performance Tuning Best Practices (EMEA) Friday, October 10, 2008 Are you experiencing current performance bottlenecks? Designing a new application and want to know how best to structure your schema and index strategy for optimal performance? Interested in how to transform your SQL into faster, more efficient queries? Then this web presentation is for you! You will get expert insight and learn best practices to help you identify those areas of database and application design that will give you the greatest benefits for performance. We will discuss guidelines and best practices covering the following areas: - Schema Optimization
- Index Selection and Tuning
- SQL Coding Techniques
- Server Parameter Tuning Guidelines
WHO:
Jay Pipes, Community Relations Manager
WHAT:
MySQL Performance Tuning Best Practices (EMEA) web presentation.
WHEN:
Friday, October 10, 2008, 15:00 Central European Time (Paris/Berlin), 14:00 London Time
The presentation will be approximately 45 minutes long followed by Q&A.
WHERE:
Simply access the web seminar from the comfort of your own office.
WHY:
To get expert insight and learn best practices to help you improve performance.
To register for this web presentation, please go to
Grow Existing BI Deployments at Lower TCO with Open Source
Thursday October 16th - Web presentation, European business hours Most businesses currently enable just 10-20% of the possible BI stakeholders and are holding back from offering BI to more users, frequently due to costs, complexity, and integration issues. Please join this webcast to learn how your peer organizations who already own proprietary BI from vendors like Oracle, Business Objects, Cognos, Informatica and others, have deployed commercial open source business intelligence, side-by-side in their existing BI deployments, as well as for new users and projects. You'll learn about how they've used open source business intelligence to deploy more rapidly, with lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Using commercial open source BI in coordination with your existing BI system can solve many of the issues that are limiting your ability to expand, by: -
Integrating well with your existing systems, including your existing BI and data integration tools -
Leveraging your current infrastructure to reach new users at far lower cost -
Providing flexible, standards-based integration -
Utilizing your IT teams current skill set -
Employing the open source model which eliminates large, up-front license fees and enables near "frictionless" growth
WHO:
Jared Cornelius, Product Marketing Manager, Pentaho
Anthony Carter, Sr. Support Engineer EMEA, Pentaho
WHAT:
Expand your BI usage at lower TCO while preserving your existing BI investments web seminar
WHEN:
Thursday, October 16th 2008, 16:00 UK, 17:00 CET
The presentation will be approximately 45 minutes long followed by Q&A.
WHERE:
Simply access the web seminar from the comfort of your own office.
WHY:
To find out how you can effectively use operational business intelligence with it costing a fortune. To register for this web presentation, please go to Delivering Enterprise 2.0 with BSG, MySQL and Sun
Morning seminar 9.00am - 1.00pm, Thursday 16th October, King William Street, London EC4R 9AN
Many organisations know that Web 2.0 technologies can help to improve collaboration both and internally and externally, encourage innovation and radically reduce the time for new projects to be deployed. The challenge is implementing the technologies in a controlled, manageable way such that the benefits can be realised without extra cost or risk to the business.
Join BSG and Sun Microsystems for a morning where we will discuss how you can take advantage of Enterprise Social Software, also known as Enterprise 2.0, whilst ensuring that they it fits in with the security, scalability and reliability demands of a modern business.
For a full agenda please visit:
http://www.bsg.co.uk/News.aspx?id=1672
Next Steps
Places are limited so click here to register now.
http://www.bsg.co.uk/News.aspx?form=1674
The London MySQL Meetup.
It has been a few months since the last MySQL London meetup so we thought it high time we had another. The next meeting is scheduled for October 23rd and will take place at a new venue, The Chester Arms on Albany Street which is just a short walk from the MySQL Customer Conference taking place on the same day at the Royal College of Physicians.
For this meetup we hope to have a "Question Time" style session with some of the MySQL Developers, Founders and users so it should be fun and enlightening for all. Kick off will be after the main Customer Conference at around 7:15pm so come on down for an evening of data based fun!
Location:
The Chester Arms
87 Albany St
London, NW1 4BT
020 76816017
Registration (optiional): http://mysql.meetup.com/138/
The Sun Startup Essentials and MySQL at FOWA MySQL and the Sun Startup Essentials Team will be surfing on down to the Future Of Web Applications (FOWA) running at London's Excel centre October 8th, 9th and 10th. FOWA Expo London is Europe's largest and most important gathering of web professionals attracting web development teams from both large enterprises and startups, entrepreneurs (CEOs and Founders), web designers/creatives, investors, VCs and the industry press. With MySQL powering the majority of successful websites and the Sun Startup Essentials programme getting behind many of Europes hottest web startups, FOWA is the perfect place to catch up with what is happening in the World Wide Web and find out how MySQL and Sun can help you be successful. Be sure to pop in a see us.
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