Blog

In this blog post, we explore the 10 basic steps for doing a secure Tungsten Clustering deployment. A fresh Tungsten version 7 installation is secure by default. We also cover the various tungsten.ini options that impact an install.

This is a short blog answering the question: "I have a cron job running as a non-tungsten user, and that job needs access to the tungsten-owned files under /opt/continuent, but cannot access the files it needs - how do I give access to those files to my cron job?"

Performance tuning any system provides more speed for the same hardware spend, gives the end-user a better, faster experience and typically reduces the stress on staff all around. Security tuning locks down critical data to prevent unauthorized access. Today we will explore both the security and performance enhancements available for the Tungsten Replicator THL sub-system as of version 7.x.

Sometimes you really, really want to know what a MySQL client is asking of the MySQL server. As of Tungsten Clustering v7.0.0, you may now enable Connector Audit Logging, which captures data transferred between client applications and MySQL servers to a file, database or socket. This blog post will walk you through the feature and how to enable, configure and disable Tungsten Connector Audit Logging.

In this post we will explore a new command in v7.0.1, tpm report. The purpose of tpm report is to provide easy access to all of the settings that pertain to a specific topic. Since Security is a high priority at Continuent, the current default (and only) topic is the Security stance. The tpm report command will evolve and grow over time. This first version is Continuent’s way of providing as much transparency about Tungsten Cluster Security as possible.

We are pleased to announce that Tungsten Clustering and Tungsten Replicator GA version 6.1.17 are now available. Tungsten allows enterprises running business-critical MySQL database applications to cost-effectively achieve continuous global operations with commercial-grade high availability (HA), geographically redundant disaster recovery (DR) and geographically distributed active/active.

It goes without saying that database security is top priority at Continuent; Tungsten Clustering customers in financial and healthcare organizations among others implement the strictest standards of data security, and so we have always kept it a mandate to not only support HIPPA and PII compliance, and maintain strict boundaries and protocols in design of our software solution and when providing support.