Savvica replaces MySQL with GRIDIRON and DB2 Express-C

their free, on-demand Learning Management System -- with a MySQL database in December 2005. The unique new service quickly caught the eye of bloggers around the world and traffic skyrocketed. This surge in popularity meant that just two months after launch, the worldwide demand for Nuvvo had quickly saturated their existing MySQL setup.

By using open standard interfaces (in this case JDBC), Savvica was able to port Nuvvo and all of its data to DB2 Express-C in less than a day.

"The increase in scalability and performance offered by the combination of DB2 Express-C and xkoto's GRIDIRON is impressive," said Bob Picciano, Vice President IBM data servers. "Clients like Savvica are choosing GRIDIRON with DB2 because it delivers a strong competitive solution and effectively addresses the current and future state of their information infrastructure."

IBM DB2 Express-C provides industry-leading performance, with the lowest administration cost in the industry. DB2 Express-C's autonomic capabilities provided Savvica with a set of recommended configuration parameters that allowed DB2 Express-C to perform better than MySQL with no tuning. The health monitor that is part of all editions of DB2 allows Savvica to concentrate on software development, rather than monitoring the database.

Albert Lee, xkoto's CEO, added, "Savvica, xkoto, and IBM are proving that businesses can deliver non-stop, enterprise-class services at lower cost to their customers with brighter technology."

The xkoto GRIDIRON Database Load Balancer transforms lower cost commodity servers running Linux (and by March 2006, AIX and Solaris) into a high performance active/active data cluster that delivers superior horizontal scalability (over 85% on average for OLTP workloads), non-stop availability, and real-time disaster recovery. GRIDIRON also transforms the software pricing model: licensing is a flat fee per data cluster, regardless of the number of users, applications or cluster CPUs/nodes. For more information about xkoto, visit http://www.xkoto.com.

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