Videos tagged with MySQL Conference 2009

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign created an unprecedented online grassroots movement in which supporters generated thousands of events, made millions of phone calls, raised record amounts of money, and received over a billion emails. Blue State Digital, whose PHP/MySQL-based tools powered my.BarackObama.com, only had the 2004 and 2006 elections to use as guidance—before oth...

Andreas von Bechtolsheim Sun Microsystems Inc. Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee number one, is a product architect with the Systems Group. Andy works with the Systems Group to help drive next generation X64 and storage servers product architecture as well as HPC opportunities. Bechtolsheim has more than 25 years of Network Computing knowle...

There has been a lack of substantive data about the state of open source in the business intelligence and data warehousing market. In this session noted industry analyst Mark Madsen will present the results of his recent market research on adoption profiles and characteristics for open source BI/DW.  This research surveyed adopters of open source to understand their reasons for adoption an...

SmugMug relies heavily on MySQL to keep its site and more than half a billion photos and high definition videos blazingly fast. That usually means hanging out on the bleeding edge – always exciting, dangerous, and changing. Today, that means blending game-changing new hardware like SSDs, OpenStorage appliances, and cheap 8-way+ large RAM systems with brilliant software such as&n...

Storage class memory (SCM) fundamentally redefines the traditional memory and storage hierarchy by combining the performance of DRAM with the capacity of disks. Using SCM to enable fast, random, and low-latency access to large ‘in-memory’ databases, Virident’s GreenCloud servers offer dramatic improvements in performance, scalability, and energy and cost ef...

This lively panel discussion keynote will address the nature of the Cloud, with cloud technologists at Sun Microsystems, with industry analysts, experts and customers in the cloud area. This panel is moderated by Kaj Arnö, and attendees are encouraged to participate online via Twitter. Kaj Arnö Sun Microsystems, Inc. Kaj Arnö is VP MySQL Community at Sun Microsystems. He promotes...

Sheeri K. Cabral, a two-time winner of the MySQL Community Advocate award, passes the baton to the next generation of MySQL Community superheroes—you! Though you cannot fly or have X-ray vision, Sheeri will explain how you can make a difference in the MySQL Community without writing a single line of code. Sheeri K. Cabral The Pythian Group Sheeri K. Cabral has a master’s degree in c...

With the volume of data exploding and the need for business insight more critical then ever, a new breed of open source solutions delivers the simple-but-sophisticated analytics an enterprise needs to make fact-based decisions and compete more effectively. Hear from Miriam Tuerk, CEO of Infobright and Brian Gentile, CEO of Jaspersoft, as they discuss how the best businesses ...

In the annual State of MySQL keynote, Karen Padir, Vice President for MySQL & Software Infrastructure at Sun Microsystems discusses the current and future role of MySQL in the modern online world. The presentation also covers the broader role MySQL plays at Sun, the role open source is playing for users and customers all over the planet, and what the visions for the future are. Karen Padir ...

What happens after you launch a product that depends on MySQL and the product becomes successful? Suddenly everyone expects much more from the MySQL deployment and everyone includes database users, bosses, auditors and the general public. I will describe the work we have done to meet these expectations from 2006 until today. The work continues as problems change, new problems arrive and our und...