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Combination of open source, Kubernetes and database technologies delivers open ‘database as a service’ style platform for users

Leader in open source database management and orchestration now offers tailored, 24/7 support for the increasingly popular open source, in-memory key-value store

Percona, a global leader in enterprise-grade open source database software and services, today announced that its groundbreaking new database platform, Percona Everest, is now generally available to the public. Percona Everest is an open source, cloud-native database platform designed to deliver similar core capabilities and conveniences provided by database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings but without the burden of vendor lock-in and associated challenges.

Percona, a global leader in enterprise-grade open source database software and services, today announced the release of a new research report, “Key Value Stores: Adoption Trends Through a Valkey Lens.” The report reveals a number of industry-first insights into customer sentiment regarding Redis’s decision to revoke the open source status of its popular key-value data store software — forcing its extensive customer base into an unplanned revamp of their business operations. The report also gauges how this decision has affected customers’ awareness of, interest in, and adoption of Redis alternatives—most notably, the Linux-Foundation-led, open source Valkey Project.

Percona, a global leader in enterprise-grade open source database software and services, today announced the addition of two preeminent technology business leaders – John Newton, Co-Founder of Alfresco and Documentum, and Rob Young, a veteran of the open source software ecosystem – as independent directors to its board. The appointments expand the wealth of business strategy, industry expertise and strategic counsel the Percona board offers CEO Ann Schlemmer and her leadership team.

Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade, open source database software, support, and services, today announced the appointment of Liz Warner as its new Chief Technology Officer, to help meet the growing demand to make data simpler, faster, and easier to manage.

Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade, open source database software, support, and services, has entered 2024 fresh off a year marked by sustained customer growth, multiple prestigious award wins, and innovative product enhancements. The company's impressive 2023 has further solidified its standing as a go-to provider of open source database solutions and support services.

Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade open source database software, support, and services, today announced the initial findings of its State of Open Source Database Survey report for 2023 during its annual Percona Live conference. According to the survey of nearly 300 database professionals working in companies ranging in size from small-to-medium-sized business to large enterprise, the database market is currently in a period of stasis around database deployments and changes, most likely due to economic uncertainty and post-COVID-19 recovery. The research indicates that most organizations are not planning to make significant alterations to their database strategies over the course of the next three years.

Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade open source database software and services, will host the latest in its annual Percona Live conference series in Denver at the Marriott Tech Center from May 22-24, 2023. Percona Live is the longest-running independent open source database conference, covering a range of database and data management topics including cloud-native deployments, performance improvements, and real-world experience from some of the world’s largest database deployments.

Percona, a leader in open source database software, support, and services, today announced that Ann Schlemmer, former President, is officially stepping into the role of CEO, while Peter Zaitsev is transitioning from CEO to the role of Founder, where he will remain strategically engaged with the company.

Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, today announced that Man Group, a global, technology-empowered active investment management firm with $151.4 billion in assets under management[1], has selected Percona for 24/7/365 support for its critical applications that depend on MongoDB. Percona will provide Premium Support to Man Group’s Alpha Technology division, guaranteeing uptime for its core research and trading data applications.

Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, today announced the general availability of Percona Platform, which brings the company’s expertise with databases including MySQL®, PostgreSQL® and MongoDB® together alongside services, management and automated insights into a single product. Using the company’s experience in managing and improving some of the largest database installations in the world, Percona Platform helps users monitor, manage, secure and optimize their database instances across any infrastructure.

Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, today announced the call for papers for its annual Percona Live conference, taking place in Austin, Texas on May 16-18 in-person. The conference welcomes proposals for speakers and panel discussion topics, technical deep dives, case studies, and tutorials from the open source community across a range of open source databases and related projects.

Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, today announced that Toolstation, a UK-based multi-channel tool and building supply retailer, has appointed Percona to manage its crucial MySQL databases and strengthen the core of its business-critical applications.

Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, today announced that MultiPay Group, a global payments technology company, has signed with Percona to provide Managed Services for its MySQL open source database deployments.

Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, celebrated record growth for Q3 2021, including 44 percent Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth year over year. With more than 10 million downloads of its open source projects and tools, Percona actively enables developers and database administrators in their roles powering business applications.

Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, today announced Percona Platform to bring together database distributions, support expertise, services, management and automated insights into a single product. Building on the company’s expertise with databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, the new Percona Platform will simplify how users monitor, manage and optimize their database instances across any infrastructure. In addition, Percona Platform will enable developers and database administrators to run their own private Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) instances.

Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, will host a live-stream open discussion on Thursday, July 15 at 11 am Eastern time to discuss news and software features announced during MongoDB.live, as well as the impact on the MongoDB user community.

Over two days, Percona Live ONLINE 2021 attracted thousands of attendees who wanted to discover more about the vast ecosystem of open source database technologies. These sessions are now available for replay on-demand.

Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, today announced a preview of its 100% open source Database as a Service (DBaaS), which eliminates vendor lock-in and enables users to maintain control of their data.

Enterprises have a deep appreciation for the value of open source software with 100% of the information technology (IT) decision-makers in a recent survey saying that “using open source provides benefits for their organization.” The survey of 200 IT decision-makers was conducted over the past month by Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Percona, a leader in open source database software and services.

The slate of speakers for the Percona Live ONLINE Open Source Database Conference 2021 includes those from leading companies dealing with the challenges of scaling their businesses to handle increasing numbers of customers and volume of data while maintaining high levels of performance that are always on, and always available.

Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, today announced keynote speakers for the Percona Live ONLINE Open Source Database Conference 2021. On Wednesday, May 12 at Noon Eastern there will be back-to-back 20-minute keynotes examining the business implications of open source software.

Percona, a leader in open source database software and services, today announced the full conference schedule for the Percona Live ONLINE Open Source Database Conference 2021. This year there is a strong focus on how organizations successfully managed the last challenging and unprecedented 12 months. The final keynote schedule will be announced next week.