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It's been a little more than two weeks since we launched our SkySQL Cloud Data Suite and SkySQL Enterprise Suite, and we're pleased at the response we've seen so far for these releases.
You've heard what we've had to say about it, but here are also some highlights of what the media is saying about SkySQL's recent move to introduce products to the marketplace...
SkySQL: build the service, then the customers and THEN the products - Computer Weekly - Insight into the ideal business model for start-ups
SkySQL offers tools for Amazon and Enterprise MySQL
[Read more...]The SkySQL® Cloud Data Suite Agreement is, like any set of terms and conditions, written in legalese. But what does it really say, in broad strokes? While the legalese terms and conditions constitute the valid agreement, I think it's a good idea to condense some key thoughts into plain English. So here goes:
When SkySQL opened its doors two years ago, we purposely set out with the goal to build trusted and value-for-money services for users of MySQL and MariaDB databases. We focused on offering a quality alternative for those deploying open source systems - and we feel that we have succeeded. Our plan was to build a service business and customer base that will create a strong platform on which to develop our own products in collaboration with key customers. Red Hat is the only other successful start-up that I am aware of having taken a similar approach of first building a successful services business before developing products.
Latest training class schedule & events calendar just published
We’re excited to see that it’s going to be a busy time for the MySQL & MariaDB communities over the coming months! Plenty of community events are taking place, and we’re doing our best to support and attend most of them.
With that in mind, this is where you’ll find the SkySQL Team, often in cooperation with the MariaDB Team, at the following events in the coming months:
We’re delighted to share the news that our friends at MariaDB today announced the availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster!
We’ve been talking a good bit about MariaDB in the past few months and it’s great to see the MariaDB & Codership partnership result in today’s announcement.
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"Life is", goes a saying in my native Finland, a country not known for using superfluous words. While this saying may take compactness a tad too far, it's a great way to say "things happen", mostly to stoically adapt, sometimes to justify actions taken in order to adapt. The brevity of the expression adds not just to the perceived wisdom, but also makes resistance futile. The expected and usual reaction is agreement; I have yet to experience a situation where somebody would counterargue that "life is not".
SkySQL is Looking for a Senior Marketing Manager for North America!
If you or someone you know is looking for this kind of position, then this is a great opportunity.
I’ll spare all of the details, but if you’re interested, you can read more about the position here:
http://www.skysql.com/content/senior-marketing-manager-north-america
And as always, you can view all of SkySQL’s open positions here (as we’re also looking for Engineers and Consultants):
http://www.skysql.com/company/careers
As Patrik noted last week, MariaDB is taking a leading role in the trend of keeping the MySQL ecosystem an open one. The SkySQL and MariaDB teams work together closely on this, and we even travel together!
Join both SkySQL and MariaDB at this week’s LinuxCon North America conference in sunny San Diego to learn more about how MariaDB is directly communicating with users (including SkySQL enterprise customers) to not only identify and help fix issues with current releases of the MySQL database, but to also further enhance MariaDB to become even more technologically advanced.
I pledged, in my first post last month, that SkySQL will do its part to promote the best of MySQL and its community. Given the recent discovery that Oracle is no longer publishing test cases for bug fixes, and the dialogue surrounding it, it feels like the right time to share my thoughts on what this means to the open source collective, and what we can do – and are doing – about it.
I was very pleased to see that the SSL-related MySQL Bug #62743 was just fixed.
Here is the bug for reference:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=62743
In essence, the –ssl-key value was not validated, thus anything could have been specified there.
Your connection would have still been SSL encrypted, which was good at least, but your SSL Key would not have made any difference.
This fix will be included in versions 5.1.66, 5.5.28, 5.6.7, 5.7.0.
For reference, here is the entry that will go into the changelogs:
“The argument to the –ssl-key option was not verified to exist and be
a valid key. The resulting connection used SSL, but the key was not
used.”
Over the past few weeks since joining SkySQL as CEO, I have been meeting with team members to learn more about each person's views on the company, our customers and the industry. The team has done an amazing job since this company of original MySQLers re-emerged onto the scene more than a year and a half ago. We now have over 300 customers globally with very high satisfaction on the quality of services provided. July has for me been all about understanding the unique company culture and heritage from MySQL, and how we as a team can capitalize on our strengths to solve the challenges that our customers face while increasing the attractiveness of the MySQL ecosystem and community.
Last week, I attended
[Read more...]Meet The SkySQL Team At OSCON 2012!
“I remember my first OSCON in 2001 and the passionate debates we had on the impact the open source movement was going to make …”
This is a quote from a conversation that some SkySQLers were having this week in Paris, where we met to discuss the future - ours and that of the MariaDB & MySQL databases as well as open source technologies in general!
That’s the thing about SkySQLers: we like discussions and meeting people; a tradition inherited from the good ol’ MySQL AB times that we’re happy to carry on in today’s and tomorrow’s world of open source technologies.
And next week there will be no
[Read more...]At a time when most companies are doing all they can to maintain the status quo, SkySQL is daring to imagine a new “normal”. We’re on a mission to change the way companies interact with and manage their data, both in the enterprise and in the cloud. Along with our strategic partners, in particular MariaDB, we’re working to develop new open source database solutions that challenge proprietary enterprise solutions and business models.
To help us achieve our goal, we’re looking for a few daring open source engineers to join our team and take on the status quo:
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SkySQL is hiring! Would you like to join a fast-paced, high-growth company where you’re able to make a difference? Please email us your CV, today, at careers@skysql.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
Here are our current open positions:
SkySQL Support Engineer – EMEA
Senior Sales Engineers – EMEA & North America
Senior Consultants – EMEA & North
[Read more...]New quick-start guide for MySQL DBAs: SkySQL™ Enterprise Monitor makes managing your MySQL & MariaDB databases that much easier
We’ve just published a new Quick Start Guide to SkySQL™ Enterprise Monitor for all MySQL & MariaDB DBAs out there, who are looking for ways to manage their databases more easily.
SkySQL™ Enterprise Monitor (SSEM) is an efficient and easy to use monitoring tool used by thousands of Database Administrators (DBAs) to analyze their MySQL® Databases every day.
In other words, you get to spend less time on routine-tasks and more time on
[Read more...]Hosted by Binlogic, the MySQL/NoSQL/Cloud Latin American Conference at the Hilton Buenos Aires in Argentina, June 26-28th, will bring together key members of the of open source database community for two intense days of technical talks and tutorials on popular open source databases like MySQL, MariaDB, and Drizzle; NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and CouchDB; and related technologies such as the Soir and Sphinx search engines.
The event will also feature keynotes from industry leaders, and numerous opportunities for networking and socializing with one’s peers.
Already, over 250 Latin American DBAs, programmers, and system admins responsible for deploying databases in the enterprise and cloud, have registered for
[Read more...]Over the past few days extensive conversations around a new security vulnerability in MariaDB and MySQL have taken place.
It all started as a chain reaction when Monty Program publicly disclosed information about the flaw they had found and about how to make sure your MariaDB and MySQL installations can be fixed. The initial information got assigned the security vulnerabitlity identifier CVE-2012-2122 and the contents can be seen e.g. here http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q2/493 .
The bug was found two months ago on April 4th.
Before disclosing the information publicly, given the seriousness of this bug and considering the millions of MySQL and MariaDB installations deployed worldwide, Monty Program informed the biggest distributors of MySQL and
[Read more...]Over the past few days extensive conversations around a new security vulnerability in MariaDB and MySQL have taken place.
It all started as a chain reaction when Monty Program publicly disclosed information about the flaw they had found and about how to make sure your MariaDB and MySQL installations can be fixed. The initial information got assigned the security vulnerabitlity identifier CVE-2012-2122 and the contents can be seen e.g. here http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q2/493.
The bug was found two months ago on April 4th.
Before disclosing the information publicly, given the seriousness of this bug and considering the millions of MySQL and MariaDB installations deployed worldwide, Monty Program informed the biggest distributors of MySQL and
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