Eucalyptus Systems follows Amazon's cloud standard, but CEO Marten Mickos thinks open standards will emerge

McAfee's open source security audit plug-in for MySQL s aimed at cloud deployments and businesses

Oracle has beefed up its Database Firewall to help system administrators combat SQL injection attacks

Facebook's reliance on MySQL is unsustainable and requires a total rewrite, warns Michael Stonebraker

Oracle's new template eliminates most of the manual configuration required for virtualised MySQL environments

With the first developer release of MySQL 5.6, Oracle is fine-tuning the database for cloud systems

SQL injection attacks targeting Oracle sites have exposed database names and email addresses

Despite previous fears over Oracle's commitment to MySQL, the company has made the new version of the open source database generally available

Amazon Web Services has added Read Replica copying to improve scaling of MySQL database instances

MySQL 5.5 release candidate got high marks for its performance enhancements from analysts at the Oracle OpenWorld conference