Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
March 8, 2012
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: March 8, 2012. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Continuent, Inc., a provider of replication and clustering solutions for open source databases, and SkySQL Ab, a provider of solutions for the MySQL database in the enterprise and cloud, have announced a strategic partnership. SkySQL will provide its MySQL database software, services and support to customers of Continuent's Tungsten Enterprise, a complete clustering and data management solution for MySQL, and Tungsten Replicator, an advanced data replication solution.
MapR Technologies and Informatica have announced joint support for MapR's distribution for Hadoop with the Informatica Platform. In addition, Informatica HParser Community Edition which is available for free will be available for download as part of the MapR distribution from the MapR website. The MapR distribution is also available through the EMC Greenplum MR Edition and Cisco UCS.