Sun Systems for MySQL

The Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure comes in two customizable recommended configurations to suit varying data requirements and budget—and simplify and speed deployment.

As a technical specialist, you will learn how Sun Business Intelligence Web Infrastructure Solution can mean to you. We will cover:

• Introduction to the Sun Business Intelligence Web Infrastructure Solution
• System and Software Configuration
• Testing Methodology
• Results
• Q&A

Bring your most technical questions! We will have the experts available to answer them during the event, and in the live Q&A following the presentation.

Date: Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. San Francisco | 1:00 p.m. New York | 6:00 p.m. London | 7:00 p.m. Paris
Duration: 60 Minutes

Join us for this web seminar in which we will cover the following topics:

• New features on Xeon 5500 processors that speed up application performance
• Performance benchmarks and energy saving metrics
• How integrated flash technologies help eliminate I/O bottlenecks, and provide up to 65x faster response time
• Running Linux, Windows, VMware and Solaris environments
• Unique Solaris OS performance, power efficiency, reliability and virtualization advantages for running MySQL

You will learn in this webinar how Hadoop on Sun enables you to:

• Scale — Use Hadoop to store and process petabytes of data
• Performance — Maximize parallelism per node, and the results of tests varying the number of nodes
• Virtualization — Create multiple virtual nodes using Solaris Containers
• Reliability — Automatically maintains multiple copies of data and redeploys tasks based on failures
• Deployment options — Run in the "cloud" on Amazon EC2/3 services and in compute farms and high-performance computing (HPC) environments

Hadoop is typically scaled on a large pool of commodity system nodes. However, by using multicore, multithreaded processors, you can achieve the same scale with fewer machines. In this Webinar, we will discuss how Sun's chip multithreading (CMT) technology-based UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor can process up to 256 tasks in parallel within a single node.

We will also share with you how we evaluated CPU and I/O throughput, memory size, and task counts to extract maximal parallelism per single node, as well as an evaluation of the performance.

Allan will also explore in depth, several benchmarks concerning MySQL 5.4, including Sysbench results on CMT and Nehalem systems plus an OLTP workload derived from an industry-standard benchmark. If you are interested learning about the performance improvements in MySQL 5.4 and related benchmarks, this webinar is for you!

• Unprecedented speed, scale and cost savings
• Radically simplified storage management
• Innovative new tools to help isolate and resolve issues to minimize impact to your business
• Freedom from vendor lock-in and soaring licensing fees

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About the Speakers:

Jason Williams holds the positions of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer at DigiTar, a premier messaging service provider based in Boise, Idaho. He directs and oversees all design, devlopment and operations of the company's various state-of-the-art services. This includes addressing the significant storage challenges presented by real-time analysis, archival and routing of millions of messages for customers around the world. DigiTar services enhance existing messaging systems with next-generation feature sets, through state-of-the-art technology devlopment. Jason co-founded DigiTar in 2004 with the mission of elucidating and aligning the world's messaging. Williams graduated with honors from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virigina.

Raymond Austin is Ground Marketing Manager for Open Storage products at Sun Microsystems. In this role, Raymond is responsible for overall product management & business planning across Sun's Open Storage portfolio. Raymond joined Sun in 2004 and has held several senior level positions in product development, product definition & marketing. Prior to Sun, Raymond held various senior product management and marketing roles at HP, Brocade and Intel. Raymond holds a BSEE and MBA from the University of California, at Davis.

• How can you leverage Sun systems to increase performance and save money, space and energy?
• Detailed benchmark results in terms of performance, cost reduction and eco-efficiency
• Customer case studies

Sun Systems for MySQL are enterprise-ready solutions combining servers, storage and software that can give you up to three times greater performance and help you cut costs by 50%. Listen to this webinar to discover how!

Join us for the Web Seminar in which we will cover the following topics:

• What is open storage
• How can you cost effectively deploy rich media applications with MySQL
• How can you better administer dramatically increasing storage capacity
• How are companies such as Wikimedia and SmugMug dealing with demands for rich media
• How can rich media storage be improved

Database scalability and performance are essential to the success of many enterprise environments. While many companies prefer to scale solutions vertically, scaling within the system is difficult - if not impossible - on processors that are not optimized for throughput applications. As work continues on in-processor vertical scalability, the MySQL database community has scaled horizontally to gain increasing levels of database throughput to achieve optimum results.

As an attendee at this technical eSeminar, you will learn how to:

• Configure, optimize and massively scale MySQL databases;
• Implement tips and tricks from MySQL database community;
• Take advantage of chip multithreading and the Solaris OS;
• Analyze the testing and benchmarks that support the solution
• Lower administrative costs, improve datacenter space and energy efficiency;

Sun's senior engineers will describe the testing that demonstrates single server MySQL database scalability utilizing a combination of intelligent database design, and multithreaded hardware design. Horizontal scaling using the ZFS filesystem, MySQL database sharing techniques, and chip multithreading (CMT) technologies allow for intraserver scaling. In the past, many physical servers were needed to achieve similar throughput results. The techniques are used well known throughout the MySQL database community. The small footprint, and power-efficient scaling methods used are key to understanding the value of intra-system MySQL database design.