In today's economic climate, IT departments must control and accurately assess the total costs of any purchase. This can be particularly hard to do when a solution is comprised of multiple products from different vendors: as the number of cost variables rises, usually so do complexity and cost. IT appliances, which offer complete turn-key solutions from a single vendor help contain this risk.

Appliances provide all of the software and hardware necessary to deliver a function-specific “shrink-wrapped” solution. They eliminate much of the cost, complexity and “guesstimates” inherent in self-assembled solutions. Appliances offer:

• Lower upfront costs Appliances eliminate separate hardware, database, and software costs And, they do not require testing, tuning, integration, consulting or training.
• Fast and easy deployments Appliances are built to be “plug and play”, usually requiring only the connection and minor configuration of the box in the data center.
• Ease of use and maintenance Appliances offer a single management console for all functions, which keeps training and maintenance costs very low.
• Higher performance The particular software, operating system and hardware combination used within an appliance is already optimized by the vendor.
• Lower, more predictable TCO – All-in-one appliances significantly reduce the number of variables that can impact cost.

To deliver low TCO, high performance, full functionality, and general ease of use, all of an appliance's constituent products must provide the same. Using MySQL Embedded Server enables appliance vendors to:

• Deliver a differentiated solution that can capture, store and report on data with speed and granularity by embedding a full-featured, relational database. My SQL provides the performance and reliability necessary to meet the needs of both large and small enterprises and doesn't limit your growth into new markets.
• Bring products to market faster by embedding a proven database rather than building and maintaining a proprietary database in-house, or spending time on difficult tuning or integration.
• Reduce COGS and improve profitability by using a cost-effective database solution without artificial license restrictions on CPU or memory. This is vital to appliance vendors who must be able to control their costs or sacrifice their profitability or business, even.
• Win competitive comparisons using a SQL-compliant, relational database with superior performance and reliability. The appliance market is growing and with each new entrant come new competitive pressures that force vendors to add new and more sophisticated capabilities. Using MySQL from the start ensures that you can do this easily and helps you avoid the difficult and expensive task of having to migrate your product and customers to another database.
• Deliver a Zero Administration solution so that your customers don't have to hire dedicated DBA resources and you aren't beleaguered by costly database-related support calls.
• Run reports easily, whether scheduled or ad hoc, using a cost-effective open source reporting solutions like Jasper for MySQL: OEM Edition

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