Rackspace announced today that they are no longer charging per-request fees for access to their data on the Cloud Files service. This is good news for those of you who want to closely integrate an application with a cloud storage service. The leasing service in this space is Amazon’s S3 which has a rather convoluted [...]

Today Drizzle enters BETA. Drizzle is an evolution of MySQL that’s been simplified, streamlined, and modernized. This long awaited database started from an idea in 2005 to fork MySQL, keep the good parts, and rip out or replace all the stuff that’s not good for web applications. This idea has been endorsed by large corporate [...]

Soon, the OpenStack Object Storage software will be released. It’s available now as a Developer Preview if you would like to contribute, or perhaps if you’re just curious. The first release is expected later this month. This is a fantastic piece of software that really hits the mark for scalability, high availability, and performance. About [...]