Global 1000 organizations are aggressively deploying new technologies such as service-oriented architectures (SOAs), Web services, and VoIP to modernize their infrastructure. They are also deploying a host of new applications such as eCommerce, customer self-service, and instant messaging to improve business processes. These new technologies and applications are creating a significant increase in network traffic volume and complexity, making it more difficult to maintain a high performance network that doesn’t disrupt application availability. This is especially true for large networks with thousands of servers, clients and network links.

ScienceLogic Relies on MySQL to Deliver Integrated Network Management Appliance »

To overcome the high cost of manually monitoring network traffic and network devices, organizations are relying automated network management products that help organizations:

• Improve network performance and ensure applications are running smoothly
• Immediately identify network performance problems using real-time data
• Pin point network problems by application, device and time of issue
• Analyze trends to see how changes to the network impact performance
• Improve capacity planning with network utilization rate details

Network Management products can be expensive and are difficult to implement. More importantly, they have trouble capturing the level of detail network managers need to effectively identify traffic bottlenecks and optimize the performance of large networks. MySQL enables ISVs and OEMs to overcome these limitations and build modern network management products by providing the following benefits:

• High Performance enabling network management products to capture more data than products that rely on file systems or proprietary database technology. This provides network managers with more granularity to successfully find and fix network bottlenecks
• Cost-effective enabling ISVs/OEMs to implement a network management solution at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions. This allows OEMs/ISVs to target large enterprises as well as price sensitive Small & Medium Businesses (SMBs).
• Ease of installation, configuration and use, so customers can get a complete network management solution up-and-running quickly using an out-of-the box configuration
• Zero Administration so customers don’t have to hire high-cost database administration skills to maintain the database. SMBs in particular can’t afford to hire a dedicate DBA to manage their network management solution.
• High Reliability so network management products can capture and track a high level of detail such as host, conversation and protocol data over extended periods of time

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• Guide to Choosing an Embedded Database
• MySQL 5.0's Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture

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• Upgrading to MySQL 5.0 for OEMs and ISVs
• For OEMs Only: Embedding MySQL