Dave Rosenberg over at the Open Sources blog stopped by the MySQL Users Conference this week. He didn’t mention the conference (PR Gal sighes regretfully), but has three posts on conference sponsors:
Five Runs–Open Source Systems Management
FiveRuns offers system management software, both as open source software and as a hosted service. Functionality includes monitoring, analyzing, reporting and predicting system health.
Zmanda–Open Source Data Protection
There is a huge market for storage products, backup and recovery, data protection and such. In the open source space, only Zmanda seems to be making any progress with the open source approach to this problem.
SolidDB and MySQL making open source databases better for enterprise
According to Paola Lubet, VP of Marketing at SolidDB, the major roadblock for OSS databases into mission-critical environments is the real time nature of transactional data. SolidDB has been developing real-time databases for the last 14 years with features that go beyond basic storage
