High Availability Clustering: Designing scalable, fault-tolerant databases with MySQL Cluster Monty Taylor, Senior Consultant for MySQL, Inc. This seminar is sponsored by www.paggo.com.br Abstract: MySQL Cluster combines the world's most popular open source database with a fault tolerant database clustering architecture so you can deliver mission-critical database applications with 99.999% availability. MySQL Cluster enables you to: * Cost-effectively deliver 5 nines availability using parallel server architecture with no single point of failure. * Deliver the performance and high throughput required to meet the most demanding enterprise applications. * Incrementally scale your applications in a linear fashion as your needs grow without having to invest in expensive hardware. MySQL Cluster has a flexible distributed architecture which gives you complete control over the level of performance, reliability and scalability you need to match your application requirements. The seminar will discuss the architecture and implementation of MySQL Cluster, common use cases and information necessary to study the technology further. BIO: Monty Taylor is a Senior Consultant for MySQL, Inc. He is MySQL's primary consultant in North America for High Availabilty Solutions. Monty is a strong advocate of Free Software and is active within the Python, Debian and Ubuntu projects. In the upcoming months he will be presenting talks at the PyCon and the MySQL User's Conference. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington and is thrilled to get out of the cold and rain.