Open Cloud Initiative launches. HP joins OpenStack. Oracle releases Java 7. And more.

# The Open Cloud Initiative launched to drive open standards in cloud computing.

# HP announced its support for OpenStack.

# Oracle announced the availability of Java SE 7. The Apache Software Foundation warned of index corruption and crashes in Apache Lucene and Solr.

# Nebula …

CloudBees raises $10.5m. Microsoft commits $100m to SUSE. And more.

# CloudBees secured $10.5m in Series B venture funding.

# Microsoft renewed its vows with Attachmate’s SUSE business unit, committing to invest $100m in new SUSE Linux Enterprise certificates over the next four years.

# Oracle announced that it has acquired Ksplice, twhioch offers zero downtime update technology for Linux.

# Ingres announced that Steve Shine has been named Chief Executive Officer and President.

# Dell …

We have two engineers from SkySQL who will be talking at the MySQL London Meetup on the 18th July and we welcome anyone who wants to chat to us to sign-up and come along.

I (Andrew Hutchings) will be giving a talk on Drizzle (a database server that originated as a fork of MySQL) and mydumper (a multi-threaded, high-performance dump/restore toolset for MySQL).

We also have Mark Riddoch coming along to talk about the work on our Reference Architecture toolset.

There will also be other representatives of SkySQL there and we will be hanging around in the pub afterwards to talk about anything in the MySQL ecosystem.

A herd of Hadoop announcements. Rockmelt raises $30m. And more.

A herd of Hadoop announcements
# Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital confirmed the formation of Hortonworks, an independent company focused on the development and support of Apache Hadoop.

# Cloudera announced the availability of Cloudera Enterprise 3.5 and the launch of Cloudera SCM Express, based on the new Service and Configuration Manager in Cloudera Enterprise 3.5.

# MapR …

Apache OpenOffice.org proposal approved. SkySQL Tekes new funding. And more.

# The proposal for OpenOffice.org to become an Apache incubator project was unanimously approved.

# Rob Weir discussed how the relationship between OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice need not be a zero-sum game.

# Simon Phipps offered his thoughts on the potential positive and negative outcomes.

# Tekes, the main public funding agency for research, development, and innovation in Finland, …

It has happened to the best of us.  Our MySQL servers are running nicely when the tea-lady in the data centre trips over a wire, knocks a cup hot of java down the UPS batteries and fries every server in the data centre.  OK, so that doesn't happen very often, but there have been cases where data centre failures have physically damaged servers.

So, if this happens with your MySQL server, what do you do?  You can setup new servers in a new data centre and hope you have an up-to-date backup.  But unless you had remote slaves these backups probably won't be as current as they could be.  When you get to the point where you have many servers keeping slaves for every one just for backups can be difficult to maintain.  Many DBAs have different backup strategies to cover this potential problem.

This is where the new mydumper 0.5.0 comes in. …

It has happened to the best of us.  Our MySQL servers are running nicely when the tea-lady in the data centre trips over a wire, knocks a cup hot of java down the UPS batteries and fries every server in the data centre.  OK, so that doesn’t happen very often, but there have been cases where data centre failures have physically damaged servers.

So, if this happens with your MySQL server, what do you do?  You can setup new servers in a new data centre and hope you have an up-to-date backup.  But unless you had remote slaves these backups probably won’t be as current as they could be.  When you get to the point where you have many servers keeping slaves for every one just for backups can be difficult to maintain.  Many DBAs have different backup strategies to cover this potential problem.

This is where the new mydumper 0.5.0 comes in.  It has …

Recently, we celebrated SkySQL reaching its first, “half birthday” since its official launch on October 15th. It’s been an amazing half-year. While most “newborns” are still getting a feel for the lay of the land at 6 months, SkySQL is already off and running!

Keeping to the high level corporate strategy we set in place when we dreamed-up SkySQL last summer, we have worked hard to establish a presence in the MySQL™ database ecosystem and to drive awareness amongst customers/users. Our goal continues to be for SkySQL to become the first and obvious choice for affordable MySQL database solutions for the enterprise and cloud. In our first six months, we:

• Grew the company to nearly 40 employees, working out of 14 countries, ensuring that we’re able to deliver our expert MySQL database services and support wherever our customers are located;

• Extended our global reach …

I have a bunch of notes from the O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011, and I figure its about time I started blogging it. These are notes from the panel on the SkySQL Reference Architecture, led by Kaj Arno and Ivan Zoratti. The notes are raw (read their FAQ for more), and I talk a little bit about the SkySQL Configurator at the end (a tool I immediately used, and submitted some bugs/improvements for – 7 at last count, which I hear got fixed in the 0.02 release, which got pushed last night!).

There were 7 panelists. The MySQL world needs:

• technical support
• monitoring & administration tools
…

A lot is happening in the world of MySQL lately. If you’re in Asia, SkySQL has been organising roadshows. On May 18, there was a captive audience in Singapore, listening to David Axmark (advisor to SkySQL, co-founder of MySQL Ab), Daniel Saito (SkySQL), and Colin Charles (Monty Program). On May 20, there was a huge audience in Manila, and I was totally bummed to have missed out on it.

I’m told there’s going to be an awesome audience tomorrow, May 27, in Seoul, South Korea. Lotte Hotel will be abuzz with all things SkySQL, Monty Program, and MariaDB, and it will feature Kaj Arno and Daniel Saito from SkySQL, and Colin Charles from Monty Program.

May 30 brings upon the SkySQL Roadshow in Tokyo, hosted at the Yurakucho International Forum.

If you plan to attend any of these events (Daniel tells me they’re also reaching capacity) and are in the area, don’t …