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PLEASANTON, California – December 5, 2012 – Percona LLC, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, announced the tutorial 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.

PLEASANTON, California – September 20, 2012 – Percona LLC, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, has put the final touches on its second annual Percona Live New York 2012 conference taking place Oct. 1-2, 2012 at Sentry Centers, 730 Third Avenue in New York City. Percona recently added keynotes from industry luminaries Clayton Cole of Clustrix and Robert Hodges of Continuent to the conference’s roster of impressive speakers. Featuring two full days of presentations and tutorials, an impressive exhibit hall, and an engaging networking reception Tuesday night following the day’s breakout sessions, Percona Live New York 2012 is this fall’s best opportunity for MySQL users and developers on the east coast to share expertise and learn from the industry’s top practitioners. Attendees who register by September 27, 2012 using the code “PLNY12” will receive 15 percent off the registration fee.

PLEASANTON, California – September 5, 2012 – Percona LLC, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced the initial list of speakers for its annual MySQL-focused conference, Percona Live London 2012, taking place December 3-4, 2012 at the Millennium Gloucester Conference Centre. Early Bird registration discounts for Percona Live London 2012 are available through September 27, 2012. Special hotel group rates are also available.

PLEASANTON, California – Aug. 23, 2012 – Percona LLC, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced Percona Server Version 5.5.27-28.0, the latest release of the company’s enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL. The new version offers four advanced features that speed up searches, increase security, and provide administrators with more control over their Percona Server environment. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona Server offers breakthrough performance, scalability, features, and instrumentation. Its self-tuning algorithms and support for extremely high-performance hardware make it the clear choice for companies that demand the utmost performance and reliability from their MySQL database server.

PLEASANTON, California – August 13, 2012 – Percona LLC, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today issued a reminder that August 17, 2012 is the deadline to submit Speaker Proposals for Percona Live London 2012 taking place December 3-4, 2012 at the Millennium Gloucester Conference Centre. Super Saver registration discounts for Percona Live London 2012 are available until August 31, 2012.

PLEASANTON, California - June 13, 2012 -- Percona LLC, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced the initial list 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. Percona also announced that its Super Saver registration discounts for Percona Live New York 2012 will expire on August 1, 2012.

PLEASANTON, California -“ May 8, 2012 - Percona LLC the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced that Zend Technologies Ltd. has selected Percona to maintain and support Zend DBi, the drop-in replacement for MySQL on the IBM i platform. The move ensures that companies that have standardized on IBM i can make a seamless transition to a feature-rich, fully supported, and open source alternative MySQL solution.

San Francisco, CA – April 18, 2012 – Percona LLC the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today commented on the success of its Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, which took place at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif., April 10-12, 2012. With sponsorship and speakers from some of the world’s most admired brands, including Diamond Sponsors HP, Amazon Web Services, McAfee, Clustrix, and Akiban and additional sponsors Craigslist, Facebook, Google, and many more, the conference was enthusiastically received by more than 1,000 attendees, many of whom praised the breadth and caliber of the sessions. Percona today also issued a Call for Participation for Percona Live New York 2012, which will take place Oct. 1-2, 2012 at Sentry Centers 730 Third Avenue in New York City. The deadline for submitting papers is May 14, 2012.

PLEASANTON, California - April 5, 2012 -- Percona LLC, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.1, the latest release of the company’s open source administration tools for MySQL and Percona Server. The new version allows administrators to change schemas without scheduling downtime, thus increasing system availability and administrator productivity.

PLEASANTON, California - April 3, 2012 -- Percona LLC, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster, a new approach to high availability MySQL. A breakthrough MySQL technology, Percona XtraDB Cluster is the only free, open source MySQL solution on the market today that uses the Codership Galera replication library—providing high performance, synchronous, multi-master replication—to guarantee data consistency. XtraDB Cluster enables high availability at lower costs, including no investment in the solution itself, reduced costs for developing the high availability architecture, and reduced training and education costs.

PLEASANTON, California - March 20, 2012 -- Percona LLC, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced that Amazon Web Services has signed on as a Diamond Sponsor of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo taking place at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif., April 10-12, 2012. Percona also announced the addition of two exciting breakout sessions discussing MySQL usage at Google and YouTube.

PLEASANTON, California - February 22, 2012 -- Percona LLC, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced that FirstServer, Inc., a leading web hosting company in Japan and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yahoo! JAPAN Corporation., will include a Percona-branded version of Percona Server as an option for FirstServer’s Z Cloud service. Offered in partnership with Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing solutions, FirstServer’s Z Cloud allows service providers, data center operators and systems integrators to offer cloud services to next-generation game, media, social entertainment network, and 4G LTE mobile application companies. The addition of Percona Server, the enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL, as an option for the service will enable Z Cloud customers that host their applications in the cloud to take advantage of Percona Server’s breakthrough performance, scalability, reliability, instrumentation, and features, including self-tuning algorithms.

PLEASANTON, California - February 9, 2012 -- Percona LLC, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced continued growth and momentum for 2011. During the past year,Percona achieved significant corporate milestones, expanded its solution offering via new and enhanced products and services, andfurthered MySQL industry education through the launch of its acclaimed Percona Live Conference series.