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Includes Upcoming Webinar on Development of Windows Apps with MySQL

MySQL on Windows continues to be a popular choice for independent software vendors, original equipment manufacturers, hosting providers and organizations developing custom web, departmental and enterprise applications. The MySQL Website has several resources on using the open source database software on Windows, including access to a free, technical webinar set for Jan. 21.

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Free Sun Startup Essentials Webinar

Databases are a key part of any application. The storage subsystem contributes most to performance of the database. In recent days, new storage technologies like Solid State Storage (SSD) and high performance drives are becoming cheaper and more accessible, but it takes a lot of planning to use these technologies in a cost effective way for best price-performance. Get tips and tricks for tuning storage systems for database workloads in a free Sun Startup Essentials Webcast presented by Senior Architect Angelo Rajadurai.

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Free, One Hour Webinar Set for October 7th

Sun CTO of Cloud Computing Lew Tucker will be presenting “Cloud Computing 101″ on Wednesday, October 7th, 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT / 19:00 Central Europe. This one-hour, free webinar will attempt to answer what types of problems cloud computing solves and how this type of computing can benefit startups and developers.

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Webinar Examines the Benefits of the New GlassFish Release

The webinar (55+ minutes) on GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 entitled “Turbo Charge Your AMP Deployments with GlassFish Web Stack,” presented by Jeff Trawick provides an overview and demo of the new Enterprise Manager in GlassFish Web Stack and instructs viewers in how to leverage the AMP/SAMP stack with their existing in-house GlassFish Enterprise Server deployments.

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Presentation by Daniel Raskin, Sun’s Chief Identity Strategist

Sun is hosting a free webinar on OpenSSO Express. Set for Wednesday, August 19th at 10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST / 19.00 CET, the 40-minute presentation to be given by Daniel Raskin, Sun’s chief identity strategist, will focus on the latest version of OpenSSO and how it can help secure a data center’s core resources regardless of whether they are internal, external or in the cloud. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session so that specific listeners’ questions can be addressed.

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Insights into the Technologies Behind VBox

Tune into the Webinar for the latest on VirtualBox (VBox). Through an audio broadcast and slide presentation, Andy Hall, senior product manager at Sun Microsystems opens with a background on VBox and provides a product overview. He describes what is new in VBox, including networking modes and building a virtual appliance.

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Sun will be hosting the Webinar “Scaling MySQL” on Thursday, January 22nd at 10:00 a.m. PST, 1:00 p.m. EST, 6:00 p.m. GMT with speaker Steve Staso, Lead Web Solutions Architect, Global Systems Practice. The presentation, expected to run about 45 minutes followed by Q&A, will address the following:

• When should you scale out or scale up?
• When and why does MySQL virtualization make sense?
• 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