MySQL database enables Tellme to reduce costs and maintain availability.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. has announced that Tellme Networks Tellme Networks is a company founded in 1999 by Mike McCue, based out of Mountain View, California that specializes in telephone-based applications. Tellme Networks was acquired by Microsoft on March 14, 2007 for "close to $800M".[1] The deal closed in late April. , Inc. is benefiting from reduced database-related costs by using the open-source MySQL database. Tellme employs MySQL to power enterprise and carrier applications on the world's largest open platform for the phone. Tellme powers voice-based phone searches used by more than 35 million people every month. Like many fast-growing "Web 2.0" Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the businesses, Tellme's data load has scaled with the rapid growth in its traffic: from 500 million calls in 2004 to nearly 2 billion calls in 2006. Tellme uses MySQL in three distinct ways. First, the company relies on MySQL as a core technology in its distributed data cluster. In addition to handling more than 2.25 terabytes per week, this system processes logging data, performance tuning Performance tuning is the improvement of system performance. This is typically a computer application, but the same methods can be applied to economic markets, bureaucracies or other complex systems. data, recognition statistics and billing. Tellme's second use of MySQL is as a fast, highly available data store for applications. The system is geographically redundant and can provide personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. data in milliseconds. Tellme also uses MySQL as a general data warehouse to reduce costs for several of its business efforts. www.mysql.com |
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