AT&T announced the global launch of AT&T Synaptic Hosting(SM), its next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses.
More information on the Synaptic Hosting Service can be found on their website.
It is good to see more companies jumping into Cloud Computing. Competition and variety of services is a good thing.
Today VeriSign announced that it is raising the wholesale cost of .com domains from $6.42 to $6.86 a year and .net from $3.85 to $4.23. This change is effective 10-1-2008. This will most likely case the discount domain registrars to raise their prices roughly the same. The cost is said to help with the costs associated with maintaining the main DNS servers. In the announcement it mentions that “VeriSign processes a peak of more than 33 billion DNS queries per day under normal traffic conditions”.
Today Sun announces that they will purchase MySQL for $1 billion. This should be a very good thing for MySQL and Sun. Sun gets access to sell their equipment to a lot of users of MySQL that currently run on a flavor of Linux and PC hardware. They can put some very good bundled deals together. For MySQL, Sun has money to put into the product to help further improve the over all system and create/enhance the different storage engines. For the Java developers out there maybe MySQL will now be on equal footing with Oracle which has traditionally been the database of choice for Java.