News Bulletins

Our news and press releases, in reverse chronological order:

Percona Launches Training on InnoDB/XtraDB Storage Engines for MySQL Databases

PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 24, 2009 -- Percona, Inc. (http://www.percona.com/training), provider of pay-as-you-go consulting for the popular LAMP stack and other open-source software, announced today training workshops for InnoDB and XtraDB, which are among the most widely used storage engines for the open-source MySQL database.

MySQL Founder Monty Widenius and Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev Launch the Open Database Alliance

May 13, 2009 -- Monty Program Ab, a MySQL database engineering company, and Percona, a MySQL services and support firm, today announced the "The Open Database Alliance", a vendor-neutral consortium designed to become the industry hub for the MySQL open source database, including MySQL and derivative code, binaries, training, support, and other enhancements for the MySQL community and partner ecosystem. The Open Database Alliance will comprise a collection of companies working together to provide the software, support and services for MariaDB, an enterprise-grade, community-developed branch of MySQL.

Percona Performance Conference Set For April 22-23, 2009

PLEASANTON, Calif., Feb 11, 2009 -- Percona, a leading provider of consulting and support for large, high-performance Internet applications built from open-source software, has announced their Percona Performance Conference 2009. The conference theme is “Performance is Everything.”

Early MySQL Director Joins Percona as Chief Operating Officer

PLEASANTON, Calif., Dec. 9, 2008 -- Percona, Inc., provider of pay-as-you-go consulting and support for MySQL databases, announced today the appointment of Tom Basil as Chief Operating Officer of the company.

Baron Schwartz Joins Percona

April 01, 2008 -- Baron Schwartz, the creative force behind the popular Maatkit tools (and others), as well as co-author of the upcoming second edition of High Performance MySQL, has joined Percona as a consultant. Baron's expertise in InnoDB, scaling, and automation is a great addition to the team and will be very beneficial to our clients. Welcome, Baron!

Percona Goes to the MySQL Conference

April 01, 2008 -- Our consultants will be at the 2008 MySQL Conference next week. We'll be presenting on Investigating InnoDB Scalability Limits (Vadim Tkachenko, Peter Zaitsev), Sphinx: High Performance Full Text Search for MySQL (Andrew Aksyonoff, Peter Zaitsev), EXPLAIN Demystified (Baron Schwartz) and The MySQL Query Cache (Baron Schwartz). Aurimas Mikalauskas will also be attending the conference. We hope to see you there!

Heikki Tuuri gets technical with InnoDB

November 7, 2007 -- Heikki Tuuri finally found the time to answer the questions and Peter Zaitsev found time to provide his comments and publish the answers. They come in Two Parts - Part I and Part II.