Continuent Takes Home LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award; Continuent p/cluster Wins Award For Best Clustering Solution.EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Continuent, Inc., the leading provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , today announced that Continuent(TM) p/cluster, the latest release of its database virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. suite, won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for Best Clustering Solution. The Awards, which as in previous years were organized jointly by SYS-CON Media's LinuxWorld Magazine and IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) World Expo, recognize product and service innovations by LinuxWorld exhibitors and were presented in 12 separate categories, plus the "Best of Show" award. Winners were selected as the top product and service innovations and solutions in open computing See open system and open source. by a panel of industry experts. The awards were announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. "The recognition from the LinuxWorld award judges is a great independent validation of the strength of Continuent's product suite, as well as of our support of the open source community," said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Continuent. Continuent is demonstrating its database virtualization solutions, including Continuent p/cluster, at the LinuxWorld Expo Conference and Expo. For more information about Continuent products, visit http://www.continuent.com, and for information on Continuent's involvement in the open source community, visit http://www.continuent.org. About Continuent Continuent provides database high availability software that ensures business continuity for the enterprise. Continuent's solutions deliver the highest levels of availability and scalability for business-critical data to eliminate costly downtime, manage high growth and guarantee customers' peace of mind. Continuent's industry breakthrough software works with all major databases, including MySQL(R), PostgreSQL, Sybase(R), Microsoft(R) SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. , Oracle(R) and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (R) DB2(R), to support today's heterogeneous database environments. The company offers both an enterprise-grade database high availability solution as well as core open source software for developers. Continuent is headquartered in Emeryville, CA, with research labs in France and Finland. For more information, please visit www.continuent.com. MySQL is a registered trademark of MySQL AB MySQL AB (founded 1995) is dual headquartered in Uppsala Sweden and Cupertino California USA. The company is the creator and owner of MySQL, a relational database management system. in the USA and other countries. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Sybase is a registered trademark of Sybase, Inc. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle. IBM and DB2 are registered trademarks of IBM in the United States. Other products mentioned may be trademarks of their respective corporations. |
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