Initial Roster of Speakers Revealed for Percona Live London 2012 MySQL Conference

PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 5, 2012) - Percona, Inc., the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced the initial list of speakers for its annual MySQL-focused conference, Percona Live London 2012, taking place December 3-4, 2012 at the Millennium Gloucester Conference Centre. Early Bird registration discounts for Percona Live London 2012 are available through September 27, 2012. Special hotel group rates are also available.

Percona Live London 2012 is an intensive, practical workshop that will feature technical and informative sessions that show attendees how to succeed with MySQL. The conference features multiple tracks across the MySQL ecosystem including high availability and business continuity, security, cloud, MySQL integration with NoSQL and big data, diagnostics and troubleshooting and more. Initial speakers selected to participate include:

• Henrik Ingo, Senior Performance Architect, Nokia
  Topic: "Introducing Xtrabackup Manager"
• Colin Charles, Chief Evangelist, MariaDB, Monty Program Ab
  Topic: "MHA: Getting Started and Moving Past the Quirks"
• Giuseppe Maxia, Quality Assurance Director, Continuent, Inc
  Topic: "MySQL High Availability: Power, Magic, and Usability"
• Seppo Jaakola, CEO, Codership
  Topic: "Galera Cluster - Best Practices"
• Peter Boros, Consultant, Percona
  Topic: "Advanced Query Optimization Techniques on Large Queries"
• Frederic Descamps, Consultant, Percona
  Topic: "Percona XtraDB Cluster in a Nutshell"

Sponsorship
Sponsorship opportunities are available for Percona Live London. Be a part of a dynamic and growing ecosystem, and interact with developers, business managers, technology evangelists, DB administrators, and entrepreneurs. Download a sponsor prospectus today. Sponsors already committed to the event include:

• Diamond: Continuent, Clustrix
• Platinum: Couchbase
• Tuesday Break: New Relic
• Exhibits-Only: Ospero Ltd.

The Conference

What: Percona Live London 2012
Where: Millennium Gloucester Conference Centre
4-18 Harrington Gardens
London, SW7 4LH
When: December 3-4, 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.

Percona® and XtraBackup® are registered trademarks of Percona, Inc. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners.