GenieDB Announces Availability of Worldwide Database in Rackspace Cloud Tools Marketplace

GenieDB, a provider of distributed relational database technology, asserted that its worldwide database will be hereon available on the Rackspace (News - Alert) Cloud Tools Marketplace. The company will be delivering the first ever multi-region distribution of MySQL for high availability in the cloud.

Waqas Makhdum, manager of Rackspace Cloud Tools Marketplace commented, “Some enterprises interested in cloud deployments are initially concerned about performance and availability. GenieDB is designed as a MySQL storage engine plug-in for easy distribution across regions, taking enterprise applications beyond a simple failover configuration to applications with 100 percent uninterrupted availability while delivering local performance to users anywhere. Until now, that performance was still a ‘holy grail’ for MySQL implementations – but no more. GenieDB’s technology lowers the barrier to cloud adoption for enterprises everywhere. We’re glad to have GenieDB as part of our Cloud Tools Marketplace.”

The worldwide database was built specifically to distribute one’s applications data across different clouds, regions and datacenters, removing downtime due to outages completely. GenieDB is available as a MySQL plug-in which simplifies enterprises job to protect their mission critical applications without massive application re-writes or painful migrations to new databases.

GenieDB explained that it is capable of offering scalability by radically simplifying the migration of enterprises into geographically distributed cloud-based infrastructures. Its approach automates and optimizes how data consistency, replication and synchronization are managed across global networks and clouds, providing continuous availability and local database performance on a global scale.

Cary Breese, CEO at GenieDB remarked, “Rackspace’s commitment to cloud innovation, along with the distribution of their datacenters around the world, aligns perfectly with our goals of highly available, fully distributed cloud applications. We are delighted to be part of the Cloud Tools Marketplace and look forward to working with Rackspace to accelerate development and deployment of next generation cloud-enabled applications.”