MySQL Community to Converge in New York City for Percona Live New York 2012 MySQL Conference

PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 20, 2012) - Percona, Inc., 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.

The conference features multiple tracks across the MySQL technical landscape. Speakers include:

• Arie Kachler, Sr. MySQL Operations Engineer, Etsy
  Topic: "Zero-downtime Schema Changes"
  
• Ryan Mack, Software Engineer, Facebook
  Topic: "Facebook Timeline Backend"
  
• Luke Welling, Author, Sams Publishing
  Topic: "How quickly and cheaply can you build a modern web application?"
  
• Mike Solomon, "The Architect," and Sugu Sougoumarane, Member, Architecture Team, YouTube
  Topic: "Vitess - Scaling MySQL at YouTube"
  
• Peter Zaitsev, Co-founder and CEO, Percona, Inc.
  Keynote Topic: "MySQL Ecosystem in 2012"
  
• Clayton Cole, Software Deployment Engineer, Clustrix, Inc.
  Keynote Topic: "Breakthrough Scalability for Ruby on Rails with MySQL"
  
• Robert Hodges, CEO, Continuent
  Keynote Topic: "Future-Proofing MySQL for the World-Wide Data Revolution"

Sponsorships
A very limited number of sponsorship opportunities for Percona Live New York 2012 are available. Sponsors already committed to the event include:

• Diamond: Clustrix, Continuent
• Platinum: Fusion-io, Nimbus Data, ScaleArc
• Exhibitor: Akiban, Codership, Couchbase, Ospero Ltd., New Relic, Parelastic, Scalebase, SkySQL, Tokutek
  
• Media: Database Trends & Applications (DBTA), DaniWeb
  
• Other: MariaDB, OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.

Clustrix is the official sponsor of the Tuesday evening networking reception which will be held in the exhibits area at Percona Live New York immediately after the final sessions of the day.

After Party
DaniWeb, a media sponsor for this year's event, will host a Percona Live New York MySQL Conference after party. Featuring Roulette and Blackjack tables, dancing, DJs, live entertainment, celebrity impersonators and amazing giveaways including 3D TVs, the party is scheduled to start following the Tuesday evening Percona Live New York networking reception on October 2^nd and will be held at the Slate Lounge.

The Conference

What:
Percona Live New York 2012
Where:
Sentry Centers
730 Third Avenue
New York, NY
When:
Oct. 1-2, 2012

About Percona, Inc.

Percona, Inc. has made MySQL faster and more reliable for over 1,400 consulting and support customers worldwide since 2006. Percona provides enterprise-grade MySQL support, consulting, training, and development services to companies such as Cisco Systems, Alcatel-Lucent, Groupon, and the BBC. Percona's founders authored the definitive book High Performance MySQL from O'Reilly Press and the widely read MySQL Performance Blog. Percona also develops software for MySQL users, including Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup, the only open source, hot backup utility for the InnoDB storage engine. The popular Percona Live conferences draw attendees and acclaimed speakers from around the world. For more information, visit www.percona.com.

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