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Learn why Nutanix was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure — unifying hybrid, edge, and AI under one platform.

Nutanix has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Platforms, with the highest position on Ability to Execute.

The Nutanix Database Service (NDB) solution offers a highly automated MySQL High-Availability (HA) topology backed by group-replication consensus, a redundant router tier, and NDB Time Machine for point-in-time protection.

The Nutanix Move migration tool 6.3.0 now supports Nutanix’s Projects platform initiative, empowering Service Providers (SPs) and Large Enterprises to seamlessly migrate VMs and security policies into multi-tenant Nutanix environments built on Nutanix.

Database modernization is a top priority for IT organizations, but moving complex database estates to a new management platform requires thought and planning.

The IT infrastructure market has hit a disruption that separates reactive organizations from resilient ones. The CIOs who navigate these moments best are the ones who refuse to let hardware availability dictate the pace of their business.

Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents MySQL vs MongoDB – Choosing the Right Technology for Your Application on Thursday, August 23, 2018, at 10:30 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:30 PM EDT (UTC-4).

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Are you considering to adopt the most popular open source relational database or the most popular open source NoSQL database? Which one is right for your particular application?

In this presentation, we will look into advantages and disadvantages of both and examine the applications where MySQL or MongoDB are the most appropriate choice.

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Learn to design web-based applications with MySQL and PHP - Developing Dynamic Web Applications. In this 4-day live, instructor-led class, you will learn to:

• Design schemas based on MySQL
• Use include files to make code easier to maintain
• Use PHP 5 and takes advantage of its advanced features
• Build applications following a precise flow
• Authenticate users in a secure way against a database
• Handle errors in your PHP applications efficiently and gracefully
• Writes composite queries using JOINs and subqueries
• Use indexing efficiently in order to manipulate large amounts of data efficiently
• Uses joins to extract data from multiple tables
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Mark Cuban is no fool. A tech billionaire, the no-nonsense owner of the Dallas Mavericks is just the sort of person you'd expect to value software patents. So the title of his blog post this Tuesday, "I hope Yahoo crushes Facebook in its patent suit," may not look out of place to you.

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There has been no shortage of reaction to HP’s move to make the Linux-based WebOS open source software. Below, I offer some of my thoughts on the meaning for the different players affected.

*What’s it mean for WebOS?
Moving WebOS to open source was best option for HP. It retains some value in the software depending on its involvement. It is also the best fate for the code, rather then being sold or simmered to its IP and patent value or even used as another weapon in the ongoing mobile software patent wars. Still, the move comes amid huge developer and consumer uncertainty for WebOS. Nevertheless, at least WebOS was already in the market with a compelling products, the Palm the Pre, in the modern smartphone market. WebOS will hopefully have a faster path to open source than Symbian since the former is based on Linux. I still think the greatest opportunity for WebOS may be in serving as an …