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Xeround: database-as-a-service in the cloud

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One of the advantages of the cloud infrastructure is its ability to make databases both highly scalable and highly available. However, as users add layers and layers of complexity to their infrastructure, a relatively simple process can become challenging. Xeround aims to remove the burden of that complexity with its service that seamlessly replaces your MySQL database.

“Scaling and high availability for regular instances can be fairly straight forward—that’s a no-brainer,” explains Razi Sharir, CEO of Xeround. “But when you take an instance and build a database on top of it and now try to make multiple replicas of this database and try to move data around between the replicas and scale them and stretch them as they move along, that is somewhere between totally undoable and very complex to do. This is exactly where [Xeround] steps in.”

Xeround provides database-as-a-service and endeavors to make it as easy as possible to begin using. “It’s a worry-free philosophy,” says Sharir. “You get in, you get a username and password, you load in your schema or you create your schema from scratch. It’s very straightforward and super simple. It takes you about a minute to create a database and you’ll be up and running. And from this point on, high availability and scalability are not your worries any more. Underneath the hood we have a very scalable database and infrastructure that handles the multiple machines and the multiple data stores around where they are—they could be in a single data center or they could be in multiple data centers.”

We sat down with Xeround at the 2011 O’Reilly MySQL Conference where the company was making two important announcements. The first centered around the service’s auto scaling capability, which manages periods of peak demand. “When the peak comes in,” explains Sharir, “if you weren’t using Xeround, you would have to plan for it and buy machines ahead of time to accommodate it. If you’re running on our service, there’s nothing for you to plan for because we take care of the scaling…[Xeround] would stretch and shrink depending on needs and your traffic.”

The second announcement was that the service is now available on Rackspace, joining Amazon EC2 in the U.S. and Europe as well as the Heroku platform. This represents another step towards Xeround’s vision of providing a vendor-agnostic service available everywhere. “We will be available on any cloud provider anywhere around the world,” says Sharir, “and you’ll be able to run your database.”

More info:

Xeround web site: http://xeround.com/
Xeround blog: http://blog.xeround.com/
Xeround on Crunchbase: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/xeround-2
Xeround on Twitter: http://twitter.com/xeround

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