High availability is about more than just making sure that applications can get to your data, even if there is a failure:

How about when you are upgrading your database schema What if you need to add memory to a database server or reconfigure/restart MySQL If your apps want to read data from a MySQL slave, how can you be sure they are not reading stale data without re-coding your apps What

With summer solstice approaching, we're taking Tungsten to the land of midnight sun, Finland. 

On Tuesday, May 29th, Linas Virbalas (Sr. Software Engineer) will be talking about and demonstrating Tungsten capabilities at The Helsinki MySQL User Group. Thank you, Solinor Oy, for sponsoring light snacks, sauna and refreshments!

The following day, May 30th, Linas will be presenting at 3rd

Join us, SkySQL and MariaDB for a day of free tutorials and consulting around the MySQL database and related technologies. Robert Hodges & Giuseppe Maxia will be talking about "Complex multi-master solutions made easy with Tungsten" at 1:00 pm!See you at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara!

Thursday, April 12Testing MySQL Creatively in a sandbox by Giuseppe Maxia, 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm in Ballroom CBoost Your Replication Throughput with Parallel Apply, Prefetch, and Batching by Stephane Giron, 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm in Ballroom GSee you at booth #307!

Continuent today announced the new Tungsten Enterprise 1.5. Tungsten Enterprise moves beyond simple big data by managing increasing data volume, complexity, speed and concurrency in the cloud or on-premise. Tungsten Enterprise pushes the envelope in multi-master, multi-site MySQL database clusters with the following new features:Set up Tungsten Enterprise clusters in the Amazon cloud with a

Complex multi-master solutions made easy with Tungsten by Robert Hodges & Giuseppe MaxiaFriday, April 13 at 1:00 pmTungsten has broken new ground how to make previously complex or completely unattainable solutions very simple and easy to deploy. Tungsten Replicator offers improvements in replication topologies and performance, using technologies that were either unknown or not used together

Tuesday, April 10MySQL Replication 101 by Giuseppe Maxia, 9:30 am -12:30 pm in Ballroom CWednesday, April 11Building a Multi-master, Multi-region Database Infrastructure in Amazon EC2 by Edward Archibald, 11:00 am -11:50 am in Ballroom HBe a Data Management Hero with Good Backups! by Robert Hodges, 1:00 pm - 1:50 pm in Ballroom DOne to Many: The Story of Sharding at Box by Tamar Bercovici and

Tuesday, 3/20/12 @ 9:00 am ET/14:00 CET/ 13:00 GMTMoving data between legacy Oracle databases and cheap, flexible MySQL-based applications is an increasingly important problem for open source-based businesses. Do you need to move sales requests from MySQL-based web applications to an Oracle-based procurement system? How about from your Oracle ERP applications back to MySQL? Tungsten Replicator

Continuent and SkySQL announced today a strategic partnership. SkySQL will provide its expert MySQL database software, services and support to customers of Continuent’s Tungsten Enterprise, a complete clustering and data management solution for MySQL, and Tungsten Replicator, an advanced data replication solution.Under the partnership agreement, SkySQL and Continuent will jointly offer Tungsten

Webcast: Thursday 3/1/12 @ 10 am PT/ 1 pm ETWebcast: Tuesday 3/6/12 @ 15:00 CET/14:00 GMTLearn how the next version of Tungsten Enterprise will help you push the envelope in multi-master, multi-site MySQL database clusters. We will be introducing the following features:Setting up MySQL clusters with a single installation commandAutomatic master failover without data lossBuilding disaster recovery