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Matt GriffinIn April and May, Percona will hold and participate in two OpenStack events: OpenStack Summit. Join our talks at these events in Santa Clara and Vancouver for new insights into the MySQL operations of the core of OpenStack as well as the latest information on MySQL guest instances. Next week (April 13-14), Percona will host […]
Percona Toolkit is one of our most mature open source applications. Derived from Maatkit and Aspersa, Percona Toolkit has evolved significantly over the years. The software now contains 32 tools, over 4,000 tests, and has been downloaded over 250,000 times. Anyone who manages a database – from DBAs to system administrators to even software developers […]
Percona has submitted seven talks for the next Voting ends February 23, and if you aren’t already an OpenStack Foundation member (required to vote), you can join now for free MySQL and OpenStack Deep Dive Speakers: Peter Boros, Jay Pipes (Mirantis) MySQL on Ceph Storage: Exploring Design, Challenges and Benefits Speakers: Yves Trudeau, Kyle Bader (Red […]
One of the big announcements at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2014 conference this week was the unveiling of Aurora. The result of years of internal work, Aurora, currently in preview, is a MySQL 5.6-compatible option that “combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases” on […]
November is a busy month of events for Percona. Conferences in Moscow, London, Paris, Las Vegas, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo mean our experts are racking up the frequent flyer miles meeting users of Percona software from around the world, sharing our insights on MySQL performance and operations, and learning how others are growing and scaling […]
Founded in 1998, Rackspace has evolved over the years to address the way customers are using data – and more specifically, databases. The San Antonio-based company is fueling the adoption of cloud computing among organizations large and small. Today Rackspace is doubling down on open source database technologies. Why? Because that’s where the industry is […]
MySQL plays a critical role in OpenStack. It serves as the host database supporting most components such as Nova, Glance, and Keystone and is the most mature guest database in Trove. Many OpenStack operators use Percona open source software including the MySQL drop-in compatible Percona Server and Galera-based Percona XtraDB Cluster as well as tools such as Percona XtraBackup and Percona Toolkit. […]
To kick off the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2014, Percona held the first “Open Source Appreciation Day” on Monday, March 31st. Over 210 people registered and the day’s two free events focused on CentOS and OpenStack. The OpenStack Today event brought together members of the OpenStack community and MySQL experts in an afternoon of […]
The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 runs April 1-4 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and Santa Clara Hyatt – but be sure to get there a day early for the inaugural Open Source Appreciation Day on March 31 – this event is free but because space is limited I suggest registering now to […]
Percona Server provides users with a variety of powerful benefits including enterprise-grade features, high performance in demanding use cases, rich diagnostics, and access to unique Percona XtraBackup capabilities, all for free and open source. In addition, Percona Server is a drop-in MySQL replacement. Compatibility with MySQL has important ramifications (as well as some risks) as Giuseppe Maxia highlighted in a […]
Percona’s development teams are always delighted to hear about the many ways that engineers and operations teams use our open source software. Companies say they value the enterprise-grade features and high performance that Percona Server delivers for free and use the software to power critical business applications, hot new apps, and even a growing web […]
Among all of the excellent events going on like YAPC, Velocity, and Percona MySQL University, we recently released Percona Toolkit 2.2.3. It’s a small update that includes the following: pt-online-schema-change did not handle the failure of the DROP TRIGGER statements correctly Created pt-agent pt-query-digest –output json now includes more data The pt-online-schema-change issue had a high importance. […]