New Speakers Enhance Already Stellar Line-Up for Percona Live New York 2012 MySQL Conference

Early Bird Registration Discounts End September 1st, Sponsorship Opportunities Still Available


PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - Aug 29, 2012) -  Percona, Inc., the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced an additional track of speakers for its Percona Live New York 2012 conference taking place Oct. 1-2, 2012 at Sentry Centers, 730 Third Avenue in New York City. Percona Live New York 2012 will feature two full days of speakers and tutorials and is an excellent opportunity for MySQL users and developers to share expertise and learn from the industry's top practitioners. Early Bird registration discounts for Percona Live New York 2012 will expire on September 1, 2012.

The conference features multiple tracks across the MySQL ecosystem -- high availability and business continuity, security, cloud, MySQL integration with NoSQL and big data, diagnostics and troubleshooting and more. New speakers added to the event include:

  • Robert Hodges, CEO, Continuent
    Topic: "Solving Large-Scale Database Administration with Continuent Tungsten"
  • Bill Bodei, Director of Systems Engineering, Nimbus Data
    Topic: "Deploying Flash Memory for MySQL"
  • Varun Singh, Founder and CEO, ScaleArc
    Live Demo: MySQL Load Balancing, Auto Read-Write Split & Caching in less than 45 minutes
  • Torben Mathiasen, Senior Solutions Technologist, Fusion-io
    Topic: MySQL Acceleration through new Flash Storage API Primitives

Sponsorship opportunities for Percona Live New York 2012 are still available. Be a part of a dynamic and growing ecosystem, and interact with developers, business managers, technology evangelists, Database administrators, and entrepreneurs. Current sponsors include:

The Conference

What:
Percona Live New York 2012

Where:
Sentry Centers
730 Third Avenue
New York, NY

When:
Oct. 1-2, 2012

About Percona, Inc.

Percona, Inc. has made MySQL faster and more reliable for over 1,400 consulting and support customers worldwide since 2006. Percona provides enterprise-grade MySQL support, consulting, training, and development services to companies such as Cisco Systems, Alcatel-Lucent, Groupon, and the BBC. Percona's founders authored the definitive book High Performance MySQL from O'Reilly Press and the widely read MySQL Performance Blog. Percona also develops software for MySQL users, including Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup, the only open source, hot backup utility for the InnoDB storage engine. The popular Percona Live conferences draw attendees and acclaimed speakers from around the world. For more information, visit www.percona.com.

Percona® and XtraBackup® are registered trademarks of Percona, Inc. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners.

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