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 Docker decided to use some of the $40M from its most recent funding round at the end of last month to purchase Koality today for an undisclosed price. Koality launched in 2012 to help developers test software in a more efficient way by letting them set up multiple instances of a build very quickly, so they wouldn’t be working in the production environment. In fact, they… Read More

 Unlock that value.
Following news and confirmation that HP will separate itself into two separate, public entities, investors sent its shares soaring more than 5 percent, to $36.87, at the end of regular trading. That’s a market cap gain of around $3 billion.
Investors are enthused that the company is working to unlock whatever value may have been hidden inside of the conglomerated firm. Read More

 Disruption is an overused word, these days, but even if you’re sick to death of hearing it, you can’t deny that change has swept over HP, a long-time enterprise stalwart, and it’s feeling the effects in a big way. By now you’ve heard that HP plans to spin its PC and printer division off into a separate company, while moving their corporate servers and services… Read More

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.5 on October 2, 2014. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.

New Features:

• Percona XtraBackup has been rebased on MySQL 5.6.21.

Bugs Fixed:

• The fix for bug #1079700 introduced a problem for users with huge numbers of InnoDB tablespaces, and the workaround of raising the open files limits didn’t work in all cases due to a limitation in the Linux kernel. A new innobackupex --close-files option has been implemented to close the file handles once they are no longer accessed. NOTE: Using this option may result in a broken backup if DDL is performed on InnoDB tables during the backup procedure. Bug fixed #1222062.
• Fix for bug #1206309 introduced a regression in Percona XtraBackup 2.2.0 which caused Percona XtraBackup to fail to copy redo logs in random cases. Bug fixed #1365835.
• innobackupex --galera-info didn’t copy the last binlog file when it was taking a backup from server where backup locks are supported. Bug fixed #1368577.
• xtrabackup binary would accept arguments that were not options, which could lead to unexpected results. Bug fixed #1367377.
• If innobackupex is run against MySQL 5.1 with built-in InnoDB, it will now suggest using Percona XtraBackup 2.0 or upgrading to InnoDB plugin, rather than just failing with the generic unsupported server version message. Bug fixed #1335101.
• Using the (deprecated) log parameter in mysqld section would cause backups to fail. Bug fixed #1347698.
• Percona XtraBackup now uses MySQL code to get the stack trace in case Percona XtraBackup crashes with a segmentation fault or an assertion failure. Bug fixed #766305.
• Attempt to use any of the following options without the --incremental option now fails with an error message rather than creates a full backup: --incremental-lsn, --incremental-basedir, --incremental-history-name, --incremental-history-uuid. Bug fixed #1213778.

Other bugs fixed: #1367613, #1368574, #1370462, #1371441, #1373429, #1373984, and #1265070.

Release notes with all the bugfixes for Percona XtraBackup 2.2.5 are available in our online documentation. Bugs can be reported on the launchpad bug tracker. Percona XtraBackup is an open source, free MySQL hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases.

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 Business Intelligence is a highly mature market that’s been altered once before, but new-comer Zoomdata wants to disrupt the space one more time –and they got $17M in Series B funding today to continue their quest. The round is led by by Accel Partners with help from NEA, Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Razor’s Edge Ventures and B7. It follows their Series A round of… Read More

 HP will indeed split itself into two companies, with its corporate hardware and services division becoming Hewlett-Packard Enterprise under CEO Meg Whitman, and HP Inc. becoming the PC and printing brand, with new initiatives like 3D printing spinning up, under Dion Weisler (Whitman remains as Chairman of the board for the consumer company, too). The company’s decision to split is part… Read More

 Alteryx, a company that has been providing a way to build analytical apps from a variety data sources via a workflow interface, got a big boost in funding today, announcing a $60M Series B round. The round was led by Insight Venture Partners with participation from existing investors SAP Ventures and Toba Capital. Their most recent round prior to this was $12M Series in May, 2013. The… Read More

 1, 2, 3, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, [airgap], 10!
Microsoft’s Windows 10 must patch the consumer-facing flaws present in Windows 8.x, and also bring enterprise customers into the modern era of computing. Couple that to the larger Windows trend of platform unification that Windows 10 will be the apparent culmination of, and you have what must be one of the most audacious… Read More

 Microsoft is rolling out new Office 365 plans for companies with fewer than 250 employees that will slowly replace the company’s existing plans for small and midsize businesses. The company had already outlined some of these changes earlier this year, so this week’s announcement doesn’t come as a huge surprise.
Here is what these new plans look like:

Office 365… Read More

 Now that the market has had time to begin digesting the new bits that Windows 10 will unveil in the middle of next year, it’s important to place the operating system into proper historical context.
It is Friday, so crank up your speakers and let’s get crazy:

Jokes aside, there is a minor irony that much of what Windows 10 will contain is something of a forward-leaning look… Read More