PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 19, 2012) - Percona, Inc., the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, announced a stellar speaker schedule for the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013. The 2012 conference was widely regarded as one of the best MySQL-focused conferences in years. With sponsorship and speakers from some of the world's most admired brands, the conference was enthusiastically received by more than 1,000 attendees, many of whom praised the breadth and caliber of the sessions. The conference was so popular that Percona added a fourth day to the 2013 conference schedule.
Breakout sessions provide attendees with an opportunity to dive deep into a variety of topics spanning the rich and diverse MySQL ecosystem including: MySQL 5.6, Best Practices for Businesses, Database Administration, Developing Applications, High Availability Strategies, New Features, Replication, Trends in Architecture and Design, Tools, and Utilizing Hardware. Speakers include:
- Matt Aslett, Research Manager, Data Management & Analytics, 451 Research
Topic: "MySQL, YourSQL, NoSQL, NewSQL - the state of the MySQL ecosystem" - Yoshinori Matsunobu, Database Engineer, Facebook
Topic: "Practical Failover Design - Automated, Semi-Automated and Manual Failover" - Grant Allen, Technology Program Manager, Database Architect, Google
Topic: "Google Cloud SQL - MySQL in the Cloud, One Year On" - Patrick Galbraith, Senior Systems Engineer, Hewlett Packard
Topic: "Managing MySQL with Chef" - Chris Schneider, MySQL Architect, Ning.com
Topic: "MySQL and Hadoop" - Vadim Tkachenko, CTO & Co-Founder, Percona Inc.
Topic: "Percona XtraBackup: Old and New Features" - Andrew Aksyonoff, CEO & CTO, Sphinx
Topic: "Full-Text Search: From Scratch to a HA Cluster" - Evan Elias, Core Application Engineering Lead, Tumblr
Topic: "Introduction to Sharding with Jetpants"
Sponsorships
Sponsorship opportunities for the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 are available. Sponsors become a part of a dynamic and growing ecosystem and interact with more than 1,000 developers, business managers, technology evangelists, database administrators, and entrepreneurs in the heart of Silicon Valley. Sponsors already committed to the event include:
- Diamond Plus: Continuent
- Silver: Box, Couchbase, ParElastic, SkySQL
- Exhibitors: Akiban, Booking.com, Codership, Sphinx, ScaleArc, STEC
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Conference
What:
Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013
Where:
The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center
5101 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
When:
April 22-25, 2013
About Percona, Inc.
Percona, Inc. has made MySQL faster and more reliable for over 1,800 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.
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