by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jan 14, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.8 on January 14, 2015. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for...
by Kortney Runyan | Jan 13, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Today we announced the full conference sessions schedule for April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2015 and this year’s event, once again at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center, looks to be the biggest yet with networking and...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 8, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Whether you’re looking at the overall MySQL ecosystem or the all-data management landscape, the choice of technologies has never been larger than it is in 2015. Having so many options is great but it also can be very hard to make a selection. I’m going to...
by Tom Diederich | Dec 16, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
I attended the OpenStack Paris summit last month (Percona had a booth there). It was my first opportunity to meet face-to-face with this thriving community of developers and users. I’m proud that Percona is part of this open source family and look forward to...
by Tom Diederich | Dec 15, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live
The many hours of intensive tutorials, led by some of the top minds in MySQL, have always been a major draw each year to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. And 2015’s event will be no exception. Percona Live 2015 runs April 13-16 in Santa Clara, Calif....
by Kortney Runyan | Dec 9, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live
On behalf of the OpenStack Live Conference Committee, I am excited to announce the sneak peek schedule for the inaugural OpenStack Live 2015 Conference! This new annual conference, running in parallel with the already established Percona Live MySQL Conference and...
by Peter Boros | Dec 4, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Webinars
Fact: MySQL is the most commonly used database in OpenStack deployments. Of course that includes a number of MySQL variants – standard MySQL by Oracle, MariaDB, Percona Server, MySQL Galera, Percona XtraDB Cluster, etc. However, there are many misconceptions and...
by Tom Diederich | Dec 4, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
You know you’ll be there so why not save some $$ by registering now for the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2015 (April 13-16 in Santa Clara, Calif.). Super Saver registration discounts are available through Dec. 14 at 11:30 p.m. PST. (That’s just 10...
by Jay Janssen | Nov 21, 2014 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
I’m happy to announce that Google has added Click-to-deploy functionality for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) on Google Cloud Compute nodes. This gives you the ability to rapidly spin up a cluster for experimentation, performance testing, or even production use on...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Nov 17, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.12. Released on November 14, Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex for DBAs to...
by Jay Janssen | Nov 14, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Thanks to all who attended my Nov. 12 webinar titled, “Percona XtraDB Cluster as a MySQL HA Solution for OpenStack.” I had several questions which I covered at the end and a few that I didn’t. You can view the entire webinar and download the slides...
by Terry Erisman | Nov 11, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live MySQL Conference in Silicon Valley (April 13-16, 2015) features a full day of tutorial sessions and three full days with keynote talks and breakout sessions from leading MySQL experts from around the world. Birds of a Feather sessions, two networking...
by Terry Erisman | Nov 11, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The OpenStack Live conference in Silicon Valley (April 13-14, 2015) will emphasize the essential elements of making OpenStack perform better with emphasis on the critical role of MySQL and Trove. If you use OpenStack and have a story to share or a skill to teach, we...
by Matt Griffin | Nov 10, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
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...
by Jay Janssen | Nov 6, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
MySQL is the most popular and widely used open source database on the planet. OpenStack is fast evolving as the defacto open source cloud platform. OpenStack services such as Nova (Compute), Cinder (Storage), Neutron (Networking), to name just a few, all use MySQL as...
by Tom Diederich | Oct 30, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live
With 1.28 billion active users, Facebook MySQL database engineers are active and extremely valuable contributors to the global MySQL community. So naturally they are also active participants of Percona Live MySQL conferences! And next week’s Percona Live London 2014...
by Peter Boros | Oct 29, 2014 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
I will present a benchmarking talk next week (Nov. 4) at the OpenStack Paris Summit with Jay Pipes from Mirantis. In order to be able to talk about benchmarking, we had to be able to set up and tear down OpenStack environments really quickly. For the benchmarks, we...
by Frederic Descamps | Oct 27, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events
You can already feel the cold of February coming slowly… you can also smell waffles, fries and see a large amount of beards walking around with laptops… you are right, FOSDEM is coming! And as every year, the MySQL Community will also be present! For the...
by Tom Diederich | Oct 22, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live
The countdown is on for Europe’s largest annual MySQL event, Percona Live London 2014. The two days of technical tutorials and sessions, November 3-4, will focus on the latest MySQL industry trends, news, best practices – and a look at what’s on the...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 20, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
Autumn is a season of MySQL-related conferences and I’m about to hit the road to speak and attend quite a few of them. This week I’ll participate in All Things Open, a local conference for me here in Raleigh, N.C. and therefore one I do not have to travel...
