Single View of Customer with MongoDB -- Capgemini's Perspective

There's been many presentations and articles on why it makes sense to use MongoDB for Single View of the Customer.

Customers like Metlife widely adopted our technology and built applications never possible before (Read: Built in record time, the MetLife Wall knocks down barriers to great customer service). At MongoDB we believe this is a transformative use case and have spent a considerable amount time to explain the reasons why our technology should underpin such projects (Read: Single View use cases on MongoDB.com).

Last week, at MongoDB London, I've seen one of the best presentations on the topic. Rob Hill, Head of Big Data for Financial Services at Capgemini, discussed the topic in details from a business and technical point of view. Value of the technology was also shown in the context of an internal Single View system currently being developed. Rob's domain knowledge is outstanding and having him at MongoDB London was a great privilege. Thanks!

Lecture starts with an overview of traditional architectures, then goes through the key challenges for SCV, why Big Data makes things even worse and then highlights why MongoDB is such a natural fit. Slides below are self-explanatory, but let me quote a few key passages.

The business reasons to start your projects today:

• A customer data flaw in a demand forecasting system cost a major US airline $50 million in one year of operation…on top of the $40 million development cost to implement it
• When a global stationary retailer examined their views of a customer, it was found that every real customer had roughly 2.5 “virtual” customer records across 75 source data systems.  Resulting cost was estimated as a net loss of 9% per customer transaction

Why should you use MongoDB as a platform:

• It solves many problems associated with existing RDBMS-based SVC solutions, especially in the areas of: Speed of Access, Speed of Comparison, Representation Flexibility, Data Flexibility and Reliability
• MongoDB provides a demonstrably lower Total Cost of Ownership than previous generation SVC solutions

Want to know more? Reach out to me or Rob directly or to your contacts at MongoDB. 

See the full deck on slideshare:

MongoDB Partner News and Benefits for the Ecosystem

Every organization needs an healthy ecosystem to succeed. At MongoDB we are pretty serious on partnering and we've invested in building our network and enabling our partners and customers to be successful. We've been constantly growing and we now have more than 600 companies working with us to change the database landscape forever.

This week's announcements prove how serious we are:

• Introducing the New and Improved MongoDB Partner Program (July 22, 2014)
• MongoDB Enterprise Certification Highlights Excellent Technology Integrations (July 23, 2014)
• Differentiating Proven Services Partners with MongoDB Services Certification (July 24, 2014)

I see our ecosystem not just growing, but maturing as partners and clients are willing to build more and more solutions with MongoDB. Our partner program is maturing with them.

We've started our partner journey by hiring selected partners with whom we've built a trustful relationship and they've grown with us. We've then launched the first version of the partner program that served to pave the way to scale the quantity of partners and they joined. Later on we've introduced benefits and requirements to improve quality and partners stepped up their knowledge. 

In this latest iteration we've launched a comprehensive set of benefits to increase the productivity of our ecosystem. We've introduces many things, but I'm particularly excited of the Technology and Service Certification Program and the Partner Development Subscription.

• Technology Certification allows partners to reach out to the largest community in big data. Our community is massive with over 8 millions downloads (and counting) and hundreds of thousands of deployments at scale. Each of them needs to work with proven technologies. Enterprises want to reduce risk and need to have fully supported solutions. Clients want to be reassured that integrations have been made according to best practices and tested. Certify your solution!
• Services Certification means being different. The world out there is competitive and customers struggle to find good partners to build, integrate and manage their solutions. Being certified proves that your delivery team knows the technology inside out.  Get certified!
  
• Partner Development Subscription reduces risks, improves time to market and helps launch new solutions. We've launched this special offering to assist partners in building, testing, and optimizing their integration or solutions offerings on an unlimited number of servers. Partners get access to a Market Development Fund that can be used in co-marketing your MongoDB-based solution. Learn more.

Facebook posted on their walls the phrase "this journey is one percent finished". We want to build the largest and most productive ecosystem in the software world and our journey has just begun.

MongoDB in 2013 -- A Year in Review

It's again that time of the year. Analysts are spending oceans of words to predict the future, companies are making plans for the next year and people are resting and enjoying the break with their families. To me, this is the perfect time to reflect on my choices, the direction I'm headed to and consider if I still love what I do.

At the beginning of the year I decided to join MongoDB (formerly 10gen). The more I think about it, the more I realize I've been wrong. Yes, it's been the worst decision in my life not to join MongoDB when I was first offered the opportunity years ago. At that time an insightful friend asked me to consider the opportunity. At that time I didn't see what I see today.

I didn't see the database world changing so quickly. I didn't see lots of new applications being built on MongoDB and an ecosystem growing around the product. I couldn't glimpse the future of it becoming the leading NoSQL database. I couldn't understand the opportunity for Document Databases and for JSON emerging as a new standard for developers... or maybe I just preferred stability over challenge.

Time has passed since then and now I'm here. How was 2013 at MongoDB? Just amazing. As a good scribe I want to capture the key developments in the MongoDB world in a single page. This is an exercise that I'm doing since years and it gives an idea of the pace of growth, how well we communicate and the level of engagement of the ecosystem.

Company

• MongoDB Extends Its Lead As The Industry's "Best NoSQL Database"
• MongoDB Closes $150 Millions in Funding
• MongoDB is the Fastest-Growing Community in Big Data
• First Ever MongoDB World 2014 Announced
• 10gen Announces Company Name Change to MongoDB, Inc.
• MongoDB Establishes Financial Services Advisory Group
• MongoDB CEO Visits Dublin to Open New EMEA Headquarters
• MongoDB Moves to Former New York Times Building
• 10gen Recognized as a 2013 Computerworld Honors Laureate
• 10gen Hires Former TIBCO CFO Sydney Carey
• Philip Carty to Lead Global Sales at 10gen
• 10gen Promotes Max Schireson to CEO

Products

• MongoDB Certification now available for Developers and DBAs
• Private, On-Demand Training for MongoDB Now Available
• Integration of Hadoop and MongoDB, Big Data’s Two Most Popular Technologies, Gets Significant Upgrade
• MongoDB Backup Service Announced
• 10gen Releases MongoDB 2.4

Clients

• Forbes Succeeds with MongoDB
• Trend Micro Aims for 24/7 Uptime With MongoDB
• Seven Bridges Genomics Relies on MongoDB for Next-Generation Sequencing Analysis
• EnerNOC Unlocks Insights for Electrical Grid with MongoDB
• Novawise Chooses MongoDB to Power Flexible Pharmaceutical App
• MongoDB to Power UK Met Office Space Weather Predictions
• Comparethemarket.com Selects MongoDB to Improve User Experience
• MetLife Leapfrogs Insurance Industry with MongoDB-Powered Big Data Application
• ServiceSource Scales to Manage $8 Billion in Recurring Revenue with MongoDB
• CARFAX® Selects MongoDB to Power 11 Billion Record Database

Partners

• Pentaho Announces New Offering for MongoDB-based Business Intelligence
• MongoDB and Red Hat Deliver Integrated Security Solution for MongoDB
• IBM and MongoDB Collaborate to Bring Mobile to the Enterprise
• Informatica and MongoDB Partner to Expand Data Integration for MongoDB
• 10gen Launches Partner Program

I want to say thank you to all partners, customers, colleagues and users who made this journey a great one. I'm looking forward to working with all of you even more in the years to come. PKPFZ79ENW4D

The MongoDB Ecosystem: Energy, Commitment and Passion

Our American friends are celebrating thanksgiving and, even if I'm not, I'd like to spend a few lines to say thank you to the amazing MongoDB ecosystem.

November has been a great month. This week we've been invited by Xpand-it to a great event in Lisbon and by Jaspersoft to their JasperDirections conference in Milan. SPP42 recently hosted a MongoDB conference in Ankara and we're platinum sponsors at Codemotion Milan with Byte-code. We've also co-sponsored a Big Data conference in Israel with Trainologic.
Partners are reaching out to us with greenfield opportunities and making MongoDB the core of their business.

This is what happens each and every month when you have such great allies!

We perceive your energy, commitment and passion and rest assured that we're here to support you. To that end, we've launched the project referral form. Do you want to work with a MongoDB expert to help your customers adopt our technology? Fill the questionnaire appropriately and we'll cooperate with you on the opportunity.

Let's go and conquer the market together!

An Ecosystem Always Wins -- Lessons Learned from Red Hat and Pentaho Partner Conferences

Last week was intense and productive. I've had the pleasure to attend the Red Hat Partner Conference in Madrid and to speak at the Pentaho Partner Summit in Sintra. I've learned a lot of lessons, but the most important one is that an ecosystem always wins.

The world of technology is built on interactions. Interactions between customers and partners. Synergies amongst different species of partners. Even competitors are interacting with each other and the term "coopetition" has been coined to explain new and complex relationships.
The very foundation of IT is intercommunication. Systems Integrators are connecting disparate sources. Technology companies are investing in certification and integrated systems to make it easier for tools to cooperate. Cloud vendors are promising to hide the complexity behind and simplify how we interact with solutions. Channel partners are integrating different products as part of their portfolio to simplify provisioning.

I'm convinced that to win in the long run we need to build the greatest and most productive ecosystem ever. It should be easy and rewarding to do business with us. Each and every MongoDB partner we onboard should share our vision and be part of a global community. Customers working with our ecosystem should feel the difference. Ultimately, these alliances will contribute to our bottom line and make a difference.

Want to partner with MongoDB? Join our network! ... as the Red Hat guys would say: we're stronger together!

MongoDB Alliances ― What Happened in the Last 90 Days in EMEA? (Update)

“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flown. How did it get so late so soon?”

― Dr. Seuss

Time flies is an expression that you can fully grasp when you're doing the things you love. I started to work at 10gen three months ago and it seems like yesterday. What happened? How? Why? To force myself into writing here are my answers. I'll be focusing on our results in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Note: I've added a few clarifications inline on Aug 5th, 2013.

Executive Summary ― What happened? 
In the last quarter we've added more partners than in all the previous quarters together. We've seen a triple digits growth in members and a fortyfold increase in the average number of employees per partner. It's been a crazy ride and the momentum around MongoDB is unbelievable and (hopefully) unstoppable. This trend is all-encompassing and includes technology, cloud, service and channel partners.  How have we reached this goal?

A Stellar Team ― How?
A company growing so fast can make a lot of mistakes and hire the wrong people. 10gen is one of the most notable exceptions to this rule. Each and every hire brings adds exceptional skills and knowledge to an already stellar team. Sales reps, solution architects, support staff, engineers and consultants are all helping to build a great ecosystem. The MongoDB Community is contributing too. The results are due to all of us working in the same direction. However, you can't drive adoption exclusively from the inside. Partners are embracing MongoDB, but what drives them?

What's in it for Partners ― Why? 
One key reason is that the market opportunity is huge. With MongoDB you can cover 80% of the use cases of Relational plus NoSQL databases. Obviously, it doesn't make sense to "rip and replace" or migrate all your databases... if you're happy with your existing tools, keep them. However, if you're building a new application, chances are that it can be entirely built on MongoDB.

If you were to choose a new technology, what would you pick? There's a chance that you'll select the one that gives you more advantages in more cases. Partners (and customers) tends to adopt easy to use, well supported and stable technologies. Complex, fragile or incomplete solutions might hurt your reputation and your clients.

The addressable market is enormous. Let's win together. We look forward to working with leading partners in EMEA. To join our partner network, you can apply here.

How and Why Partner with 10gen, The MongoDB Company

It’s been said that “no man is an island, entire of itself” and that’s true for humans, but more than true for organizations. Companies live and thrive in complex markets only by working with a lively ecosystem. Cooperation is even more important for Open Source products.

10gen recently launched a new Partner Program, meant to help and strengthen our commercial ecosystem. We closely work with software, hardware, cloud, channel and service companies to make sure they can get the maximum out of MongoDB. 

Want to know more about the benefits of the partnership program? Interested in becoming a 10gen Partner? Working on complex Big Data projects with MongoDB and need help?

Join us on June 13th for a Webinar titled: "How Partners Can Benefit from our New Program"

From Oracle to 10gen, The MongoDB Company

Those who are familiar with me know I've a dream.

5 years ago I decided to leave a systems integrator where I was doing great. Why? I wanted to be in a company with the same growth prospects that Oracle had in the 80s. I dreamed to be in the Oracle of 30 years ago and, as time travel wasn't affordable, I decided to join MySQL AB to help expand the business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
A few years later my dream came true, but in a slightly different sense. Sun acquired MySQL and was later swallowed by Oracle giving me the opportunity to join the company I wished I could have helped build.

Oracle is an amazing company and the MySQL family is full of energy and passion. The product is much better now and the opportunities are even more. MySQL is a dream that I've proudly been part of, but I decided to move on to a new adventure to keep the energy, commitment and passion that are part of me. That's why I decided to leave Oracle.

I've joined an outstanding company, with a leading solution and huge growth prospects. A company that could become the size of Oracle in less than 30 years. I'll be working with a product sitting at the intersection of Cloud, Mobile and Big Data. A document database that will shape the technology landscape in the years to come.

With an attractive partner program and a shiny new version of MongoDB just launched, it's the right time for me to join 10gen. I've accepted the exciting challenge of building the ecosystem and work with software, hardware, cloud, services and channel partners to make MongoDB the de-facto standard NoSQL database.

Interested in a partnership with 10gen? Let's talk! Reach out to me via LinkedIn or firstname.lastname at 10gen.com. ;)

My new dream starts today, and today is the time to say Thank You! to all friends, colleagues, customers and users who made the MySQL journey a great one. I look forward to working with all of you again in the future.

All the best!

2012, the Best Year for MySQL (...so far, but more to come)

It's the end of the year and, before the world ends ;-) , I feel the pressure to follow up on last year's article "2011, a great year for MySQL in Review". I'll adopt a similar format and mention things in context, covering products, marketing, momentum, etc. at a high level. I may have missed something and I hope my colleagues will contribute to the list.

I really do think it's been the best year for MySQL so far... well, at least since when I signed my contract with MySQL AB at the end of 2007. We're just at the beginning of our journey and I wish to the MySQL family, to our community and ecosystem an even better 2013!

Summary
With MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA, MySQL 5.6 Release Candidate and Cluster 7.3 DMR this is the start of something exceptional. These products are introducing long-awaited features and received very positive feedback from our community.

New windows tools joined the party to help customers migrate from Microsoft SQL Server and access MySQL from Excel. MySQL Cluster Manager has been updated and the new auto-installer saw the light of the day. We improved our Connectors, released new ones and delivered additional value to MySQL Enterprise Edition customers. We've also held our first ever MySQL Connect conference that's been a phenomenal success and the MySQL momentum is growing exponentially.

Products
MySQL 5.6 will be loved by developers, giving them more freedom to build next generation applications. With huge performance improvements, new NoSQL access and better replication, that's going to be the best MySQL release to date.
New options for High Availability are waiting to be deployed in your data centers to increase service levels and policy-based auditing will make your servers safer.
MySQL Cluster 7.2 went GA in February, initially delivering 1.2 Billion queries per minute, but then beating his own achievement and producing 1.1 Billion queries writes per minute. Adaptive Query Localization and better ease of use increased Cluster use cases. Leveraging our Not-Only SQL strategy, the latest previews introduced Node.JS access to provide developers further flexibility. Last but not least, Foreign Keys are now part of MySQL Cluster 7.3 DMR.

Case Studies
A lot of case studies can be found here, but let me pick some of the recent noteworthy ones:

• MySQL Cluster Powers El Chavo from Playful Play, Latin America's Most Popular Facebook Game.
• RedeHost Quadriples Backup Speed with MySQL Enterprise Edition
• With Its MySQL Database-as-a-Service CERN Empowers Scientists
• StayFriends Secures a Leading Position Among European Social Media Sites with Robust, High-Performance, Relational Database
• Tilgin Improves Subscriber Device Management by Enabling Telecommunications Operators with Robust Database Solution
• Verizon Wireless Supports its Mission-Critical Employee Portal with MySQL
• A special mention goes to Twitter, who's handled a huge workload with MySQL during 2012 Presidential Elections

Events & Momentum
At the first ever MySQL Connect conference, Edward Screven presented enlightening statistics:

• Over 15 Million Estimated Active Installations
• Facebook: 163k Fans, +35% Yoy Growth
• Twitter: 25k Followers, +67% Yoy Growth
• MySQL Newsletter: 1,4m Subscribers, +20% YoY Growth
• Events: Dozens Of Fully Booked Dev Days & Tech Tours
• Awards: CRN, Linux Journal, PHP Architect...

Several of those numbers have grown since then, and MySQL once again got awarded the Linux Journal Reader’s Choice Award as Best Database for 2012.

People are downloading, tweeting, liking, adopting and blogging about MySQL at a great pace. Embedding MySQL has become a common practice. Adoption in the Cloud is skyrocketing and MySQL has emerged as the leading database, offered by the vast majority of cloud services providers. MySQL is also a key component of big data platforms, with Hadoop vendors estimating 80% of their deployments are integrated with MySQL. MySQL is everywhere!

To all MySQL users, customers, partners, colleagues, developers, advocates and aficionados: Thank you for another amazing year! Go MySQL!

Related articles

• Thank You MySQL Community! MySQL 5.6.9 Release Candidate Available Now!
• MySQL, An Ideal Choice for The Cloud
• MySQL and Hadoop Integration - Unlocking New Insight
• Top 5 Developer Enabling Nuggets in MySQL 5.6
• MySQL Cluster Manager 1.2 - using the new features
• With Its MySQL Database-as-a-Service CERN Empowers Scientists

Meeting the MySQL Team at UKOUG (ICC Birmingham, December 3-5 | 2012)

If you're planning to attend UKOUG in Birmingham on Dec 3-5, here's your guide to know more about Oracle's MySQL.

There's a MySQL stream on Monday 5th and we've a great list of sessions, including:

• Rich Mason's keynote on how to Deploy, Scale and Save with Linux, Virtualization and MySQL
• Keith Hollman on stage to discuss how to Embrace Database Diversity
• Mark Swarbrick's lecture on Tips & Tricks for MySQL Replication
• Mario Beck's talk on Performance Schema
• My two slots on how to Leverage Oracle (and MySQL) Data Management Solutions together and then on the High Availability Options available with MySQL

I'd like also to mention Dr. David Harper, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, on Better Living Trough Metadata: Harnessing the Power of MySQL Information Schema.

Want to meet myself or my team at the UKOUG? Feel free to get in touch via LinkedIn or Twitter.

Want to come prepared? Here's what you can read beforehand:

• MySQL Connect Presentations Available (blogs.oracle.com)
• New Options for MySQL High Availability (blogs.oracle.com)
• What's new in MySQL 5.6 Release Candidate (dev.mysql.com)
• New MySQL Cluster 7.3 Previews: Foreign Keys, NoSQL Node.js API and Auto-Tuned Clusters (dev.mysql.com)

MySQL Enterprise Monitor, my super powers and my life

Last week I had an enlightening experience. It may sound strange, but I found I have super powers... let me explain.

I had a meeting with a big customer of mine to show the value of MySQL Enterprise and Cluster CGE and to share with them the latest and greatest features available in our commercial offerings. During the discussion I said: "Imagine if your MySQL database has a problem at 3pm. Thanks to My Oracle Support and MySQL Enterprise Monitor you can quickly resolve your issues and restore the service".

MySQL Enterprise Monitor

Well, this is exactly what happened at 2.50pm... I missed the prophecy by just 10m and found I have super powers!

You could imagine how happy the customer was about my incredible abilities ;)
However, thanks to MySQL Enterprise Monitor, I'm still alive and I'm here to tell the story.

By using correlated graphs we've been able to filter all the events running at that time and quickly diagnose the problem. For those of you who're curious, they had an issue on their advertising network and, at that particular time, all the banners pointed to the portal bringing the number of active MySQL connections to 8000+ and putting a lot of pressure on the database. In the troubleshooting process we also found some regular spikes in the charts, probably related to batches they weren't aware of and they started an internal discussion to find the cause.

At the end I've learned a few things:

• MySQL Enterprise Monitor is an amazing troubleshooting tool and could also be used to start a conversation between DBAs and DEVs
• Never mention, during a customer visit, that the database might have a problem... or this could really happen
• I've a debt of gratitude with the my colleagues in the MySQL Enterprise team at Oracle. Guys, the next time we meet, drinks are on me ;)

That's it... thanks for taking the time to read this life-changing story ;)

MySQL Events that I don't want to miss

Do you want to closely follow what MySQL is doing around the globe? We've created a Lanyrd guide just for that. It's curated by the MySQL Community, Marketing, Presales and Product Management teams and with some other contributions too.
Tomorrow we'll host the MySQL Innovation Day (in streaming too) and MySQL Connect is also quickly approaching. If you'd like showcase your products and services to the MySQL Community you can take advantage of the various sponsorship opportunities.

Stay tuned for the latest and greatest updates from the MySQL team at Oracle and from our vibrant community!

MySQL Cluster 7.2 -- Unlimited Possibilities

We've recently seen some great announcements of MySQL Cluster delivering amazing results for both selects and updates. The posts (see related articles below) are full of juicy technical details and proofs, but today I'd like to change the perspective a bit. Let's compare those figures with real-world data and imagine what could be done. Please note that I'm not using any scientific method here, just dreaming about the unlimited opportunities offered by MySQL Cluster today.

MySQL Cluster 7.2.7 -- 1B+ Writes per Minute

Cluster can deliver 1B+ selects per minute with 8 nodes and 1B+ updates per minute with 30 nodes.

Our planet is getting quite populated and interconnected. World population is 7B+ and 2B+ of us are using internet. Let's assume that, due to time-zones, only 1/3 of the total internet population is online at a given time (700M+) and that a single action generates one update and one select on the database.

What kind of services can we offer then?

With such scalability and performance, MySQL Cluster offers endless opportunities to develop something new that can support the exponential growth of the web and offer always-on services to everyone, for example:

• Hellos from the world -- a website where everyone can say hello to the world, whenever they want. MySQL Cluster can handle the entire online population in less than 1 minute;
• Let's shop together -- a global eCommerce website selling everything with 100% market share. If everyone would buy an item per minute, MySQL Cluster could easily fulfill the needs of the entire internet population with 30 nodes;
• Like everything you like -- a like button that can be attached to everything in order to collect statistics on users' favorite things. MySQL Cluster could easily sustain the total online world assuming they'd like 1 thing per minute;

Furthermore, MySQL Cluster could handle updates from all of Zynga's 60M active daily users in 3 seconds or all of Facebook's 900M+ active users in less than a minute. All of that giving you ACID compliance and synchronous replication to ensure no data loss.

The Oracle MySQL engineering team did a great job with Cluster: let's build the next big thing with it!

Related articles

• Where would I use MySQL Cluster?
• MySQL Cluster 7.2.7 achieves 1BN update transactions per minute
• 1 Billion Queries Per Minute - MySQL Cluster 7.2 is GA!
• Challenges in reaching 1BN reads and updates per minute for MySQL Cluster 7.2

Changing Name and Improving Focus

You might have noticed that this blog changed name and URL. Instead of having one single blog for everything, I decided to split my blogging activities in two separate blogs.

If you're interested in MySQL, Oracle, Databases, Business Intelligence, Open Source, Cloud, etc. this is the place to be. Blog's new name is Data & Co.
A big "Thank you!" to David Stokes who moved all the planet.mysql.com references to the old blog to this new one.

On the other hand, if you'd like to read about communication, marketing, advertising, PR, soft skills, etc. feel free look at Publicime.  Please see the introduction of my new blog here. I've moved non-technical articles to this one to make sure my posts on Data & Co are exclusively technology-centric.

This will result in better focus for both blogs and I won't annoy you with topics you're not interested in. The old url is redirecting to Data & Co. by default.

2011, A great year for MySQL in review...

I see so many posts on what happened to company X, product Y and dream Z that I couldn't resist the temptation to summarize this great year for MySQL. At the end of 2010, Oracle did an announcement we were all waiting for: MySQL 5.5 is GA! Another year has passed since then and it's time to reflect on what has been done.

I know this is a long post. I tried to rewrite it at least 10 times to make it shorter, but I couldn't condense the list. Hence, I wrote a summary in the beginning for those who don't want to read it all.

I believe that 2011 was an exceptional year for MySQL and I really enjoy being part of this team. I wish all of us a lot of success and fun in the years to come!

Summary:
Oracle released many MySQL 5.6 and MySQL Cluster 7.2 DMRs accompanied by new versions of MySQL Enterprise Monitor, MySQL Enterprise Backup, MySQL Workbench (and utilities), MySQL Proxy, MySQL Cluster Manager and Connectors.

The MySQL team unveiled new products like the MySQL Installer for Windows and Oracle VM Templates for MySQL. Besides, the MySQL Enterprise offering has been enriched with new commercial extensions. MySQL can now be leveraged as one of the Oracle data management solutions with new certifications and the integration with My Oracle Support increased the business value of customers' investment on Oracle technologies.

Additionally MySQL presented at major events across the world and won a few awards.

The Oracle's MySQL Sales Consulting Team is Hiring Across EMEA

Would you like to work with the biggest websites and social networks in the world? Do you want to support large enterprises with their database initiatives? Would you like to assist ISVs and OEMs providing the technology that powers their products?

In the MySQL Sales Consulting organization we do just that.

You’ll support MySQL partners, customers and prospects across EMEA, evangelize our products, assist marketing and cooperate with product management to shape the future of MySQL.

Sounds interesting? We're actively looking for senior professionals to join the team!
Feel free to reach me on LinkedIn for more information or have a look at the links below:

• Germany
• Spain
• Austria
• Switzerland

Please note that the location in some posts is wrong as Malaga is obviously neither in Austria nor in Switzerland. :)
Multiple locations for each position are possible and we'll fix the error soon.

Update: we've fixed the location typos now!

Live Event in Rome (May 19th) - Improve Performance and Scalability with the Latest from MySQL

MySQL, the world's most popular open source database, powers today's most demanding web sites and applications. With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle continued to invest and improve MySQL - to make MySQL a better MySQL.
Come join us to see what we have accomplished - from the MySQL database itself and across the MySQL product suite of development, management, and monitoring tools.

Register now for this seminar that will be held in Rome on the 19th of May. Agenda and location details are available on the event registration page.

Cost?
None, it’s a free event! But places are limited and the seminar is held on a first come first served basis, so register quickly!

MySQL, Oracle and their Marriage

During Collaborate 11, the biggest IOUG conference, I'll be presenting on MySQL, Oracle and their integration in a session called: "Integrating MySQL and Oracle: The Journey of a Transaction". 

Apart from the usual self-promotion about a speaking engagement, this time I'd like to make the session interactive. I'd love if you could add your comments on the challenges you find integrating the two products and on the hints you might want to share. I'll do all my best to address your concerns during my lecture, at the MySQL community dinner (see Sheri's post below) or in a blog post after the event.

See you in the sunny Florida!
Luca

Related articles you might be interested in:

• Presenting on MySQL Cluster at Collaborate 11 (clusterdb.com)
• MySQL Beginner's Guide to Collaborate (palominodb.com)
• When the IOUG Meets the MySQL Community - Interview with Andy Flower, Sarah Novotny, Lenz Grimmer and Dave Stokes (dev.mysql.com)
• MySQL Community Reception by Oracle - Santa Clara (opensourcedba.wordpress.com)

Free Webinar: MySQL Enterprise Backup - Online "Hot" Backup for MySQL (EN,IT) - January 20, 2011

Online backup has been one of the most requested features for MySQL. With MySQL Enterprise Backup, developers and DBAs have tools they need to safely and rapidly backup and restore their databases. In this webinar we will go into the advantages of Hot "Online" backups. We will show how MySQL Enterprise Backup supports full, incremental, partial, and compressed backups that allow you to perform consistent Point-in-Time Recovery, as well as saving both time and money.

In this Webinar you will learn:

• Backup Strategies & Methods
• Comparison of backup types for MySQL
• MySQL Enterprise Backup: Features
• MySQL Enterprise Backup Performance
• MySQL Enterprise Backup: Architecture
• MySQL Enterprise Backup: How it Works
• MySQL Enterprise Backup: Script Examples

Who
Mike Frank and Alex Roedling for the English session.
Luca Olivari for the Italian one.

When
Thursday, January 20, 2011: 09:00 Pacific time (English)
Thursday, January 20, 2011: 10:00 Central European time (Italian)

Register now: English, Italian.
On demand French and German versions available as well.

Related articles

• Introducing our "Hot" MySQL Enterprise Backup (blogs.oracle.com)

Webinar: Designing MySQL Databases (Italian) - Nov, 25@10am CET

We already have more that 500 registrants for this MySQL web seminar. Join us and the crowd to learn the design dos and don'ts for MySQL. We will show you how to design, forward and reverse engineer databases including discussions on datatypes, indexes, and foreign keys for various application scenarios.

In this technical presentation, we will cover:

• MySQL design basics
• Data Modeling Basics
• Physical and Logical Models
• "Dos" and "Don'ts"
• How to design MySQL for your specific application
• Datatypes
• Indexes
• Foreign keys
• MySQL Workbench
• Design
• Reverse Engineering
• Design
• Deploy (Forward Engineer)
• Maintain (Synchronize)
• Develop
• SQL Coding

Whether you are developing commercial applications, Web-based applications, or in-house applications, and whether you are a novice or more advanced, you will benefit from this presentation.

When
Thursday, November 25th, 2010 at 10am CET

How

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