RALEIGH, NC – September 27, 2021 – Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, today announced that Donnie Berkholz has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Product Management, expanding the company’s leadership team. He will be an instrumental part of the company’s transformation from a service-focused company to one that offers open source products with database software, services, and best-practice expertise integrated into their design. Berkholz brings his experience developing products aimed at software developers to Percona, along with his support for the open source community approach. “I’m excited to be joining Percona as the company believes in keeping open source open, enabling everyone to contribute and providing expertise around data to the community – just like I do. Helping Percona on their journey to develop more innovative open source products is such a great opportunity. I’m passionate about keeping open source software free, available and sustainable for the future, and the Percona leadership team thinks the same way – it’s one of just a few companies demonstrating that commitment to open source staying open.” said Berkholz. Ann Schlemmer, President at Percona said: “As a company, we are expanding our approach and building new products using our services experience around the most popular open source databases; MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. Donnie’s experience developing open source projects, expanding software developer communities, and building products for developers will support Percona’s company vision. We are thrilled he has joined us, and that the open source community will benefit from his expertise, passion, and insight.” Berkholz brings nearly twenty years of experience in open source development and product strategy to Percona. He will use this to help the company provide more expansive open source database distributions to the market. His previous roles include leading product development strategies as Vice President, Products at container software company Docker, driving the DevOps transformation and creating platform products at travel-tech leader CWT, and roles at developer analyst firm RedMonk and 451 Research, where he advised companies on product strategy and development in the software developer, data scientist and DevOps spaces. Alongside these roles, Berkholz worked in the Gentoo Linux community, moving from developer and manager roles to leading the distribution over thirteen years. He has also served on the program committee for the Open Source Summit event since 2017. Percona supports a range of open source database distributions based on MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB that provide enterprise-class functionality and drop-in replacement deployment. Percona combines the best of the open source community tooling alongside the company’s expertise in deployment and management. This enables Percona to offer customers the best fully open source options for their database deployments without being locked into any single vendor’s products. Alongside these distributions, Percona provides open source database management tools, and support and services packages. These help customers make the best decision on their future data strategies, whether they plan to deploy their own server instances, move to the cloud, or take advantage of managed database services.
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With more than 3,000 customers worldwide, Percona is the only company that delivers enterprise-class solutions for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB® and PostgreSQL across traditional and cloud-based platforms. The company provides Software, Support, Consulting, and Managed Services to large, well-known global brands such as Cisco Systems, Time Warner Cable, Alcatel-Lucent, Rent the Runway and the BBC, as well as smaller enterprises looking to maximize application performance while streamlining database efficiencies. Well established as thought leaders, Percona experts author content for the Percona Database Performance Blog, and the Percona Live Open Source Database Conferences draw attendees and expert technical speakers from around the world. For more information, visit www.percona.com.
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