SANTA CLARA, USA: Provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database Continuent has announced uni/cluster 2008.

This newest version of Continuent's uni/cluster software provides the highest levels of availability and scalability for applications built using the MySQL database.

Continuent uni/cluster offers a multi-master approach to replication. Data is committed and available to all nodes in the cluster simultaneously, effectively eliminating data latency. The elimination of data latency also allows uni/cluster to offer more effective load balancing because any database server can be used to process user queries.

New features in Continuent uni/cluster 2008 include:

    * support for more than two cluster controllers and
    * platform-independent, Adobe AIR-based GUI cluster management tools.
    * official MySQL 5.1 certification,
    * Solaris support and Red Hat 5 certification,

"As organizations continue to adopt MySQL and other open source technologies for business-critical applications, high availability solutions such as Continuent uni/cluster are increasingly important," said Marten Mickos, senior vice president, Database Group, Sun Microsystems. "Continuent uni/cluster addresses what many enterprises need - a cost-effective, reliable way to ensure that MySQL database applications are available 24/7."

"With Continuent uni/cluster 2008, organizations have insurance against outgrowing the capacity of their system," said Eero Teerikorpi, CEO of Continuent. "They can add new database servers on the fly and take advantage of uni/cluster's highly efficient load balancing, where database activity is directed to the least busy server. This can be vital to maintaining continuous data availability for maximum productivity and meet customer expectations."