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 Cloud Foundry, the open-source platform as a service (PaaS) offering, has become somewhat of a de facto standard in the enterprise for building and managing applications in the cloud or in their own data centers. The project, which is supported by the Linux Foundation, is announcing a number of updates at its annual European user conference this week. Read More

 Salesforce launched three AI tools for developers today at the TrailheaDX developer conference. These algorithms, which fall under the new Einstein Platform Services, enable third-party developers to add Einstein intelligence to applications built on top of the Salesforce platform. The new services include sentiment and intent analysis and some pretty sophisticated image recognition… Read More

 Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation, the non-profit behind the open source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service project that’s currently in use by about half of the Fortune 500 companies. Microsoft is joining at the Gold Member tier where it joins the likes of Google (which joined last December and also hired the foundation’s former… Read More

Please join Percona’s Jon Tobin, Director of Solution Engineering at Percona, and Rob Masson, Solutions Architect Manager at ScaleArc, on Thursday, January 26, 2017, at 9:00 am PST / 12:00 pm EST (UTC-8) for their webinar “Overcoming the Challenges of Databases in the Cloud.”

Enterprises enjoy the flexibility and simplified operations of using the cloud, but applying those advantages to database workloads has proven challenging. Resource contention, cross-region failover and elasticity at the data tier all introduce limitations. In addition, cloud providers support different services within their database offerings.

Jon and Rob’s webinar is a discussion on how to overcome these databases in the cloud challenges. You’ll learn:

• The differences between IaaS and PaaS
• How AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud stack up
• Tricks for managing smaller database instances
• Tips for achieving cross-region failover
• Best practices for hybrid deployments

Register for the webinar here.

Jon Tobin, Director of Solution Engineering, Percona

When not saving kittens from sequoias or helping the elderly across busy intersections, Jon Tobin is Percona’s Director of Solutions Engineering. He has spent over 15 years in the IT industry. For the last six years, Jon has been helping innovative IT companies assess and address customer’s business needs through well-designed solutions.

Robert Masson, Solutions Architect Manager, ScaleArc

Over the past ten years, Robert has been working with leading edge Product Companies that are defining the future of Computing. When at EMC,  he led an Advanced Development Team that explored the capabilities of new technologies and helped to drive innovation within a world leader in information management technologies. Robert also was the Director of Research on the East Coast and interfaced with researchers at MIT, Harvard and Boston University (among others).

Currently, Robert works with the world leader in cloud management platforms, allowing customers to manage assets easily and securely across disparate platforms seamlessly. He gets to work hands-on with implementation teams and business drivers to help understand their needs, design their organizations and implement that vision into a game-changing infrastructure and toolset.

 When you think of Autodesk, you probably think of desktop software and traditional manufacturing, but the company is trying hard to change that perception, and today it announced the first three investments from its $100 million Forge Fund, which includes a 3D robotics drone company, an on-demand machine shop service and a platform for building smart connected Internet of Things devices… Read More

 If every company is a software company, perhaps every line of business (LoB) employee should be a programmer. That would be appear to be the idea behind Salesforce’s massive TrailheaDX announcement today. Ultimately, Salesforce hopes these LoB employees will be able to build apps without the help of IT or trained programmers. While the technical folks with programming knowledge… Read More

Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev leads a track at the inaugural Percona University event in Raleigh, N.C. on Jan. 29, 2013.

About two years ago we held our first-ever Percona University event in Raleigh, N.C. It was a great success with high attendance and very positive feedback which led us to organize a number of similar educational events in different locations around the world.

And next month we’ll be back where it all started. On February 12, Percona University comes to Raleigh – and this time the full-day educational event will be much more cool. What have we changed? Take a look at the agenda.

First – this is no longer just a MySQL-focused event. While 10 years ago MySQL was the default, dominating choice for modern companies looking to store and process data effectively – this is no longer the case. And as such the event’s theme is “Smart Data.” In addition to MySQL, Percona and MariaDB technologies (which you would expect to be covered), we have talks about Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, SQLLite.

However the “core” data-store technologies is not the only thing successful data architects should know – one should also be well-versed in the modern approaches to the infrastructure and general data management. This is why we also have talks about Ansible and OpenStack, DBaaS and PaaS as well as a number of more talks about big-picture topics around architecture and technology management.

Second – this is our first multi-track Percona University event – we had so many great speakers interested in speaking that we could not fit them all into one track, so we have two tracks now with 25 sessions which makes that quite an educational experience!

Third – while we’re committed to having those events be very affordable, we decided to charge $10 per attendee. The reason for this is to encourage people to register who actually plan on attending – when hosting free events we found out that way too many registered and never showed up, which was causing the venues to rapidly fill past capacity and forcing us to turn away those who could actually be there. It was also causing us to order more food than needed, causing waste. We trust $10 will not prevent you from attending, but if it does cause hardship, just drop me a note and I’ll give you a free pass.

A few other things you need to know:

This is very much a technically focused event. I have encouraged all speakers to make it about technology rather than sales pitches or marketing presentations.

This is low-key educational event. Do not expect it to be very fancy. If you’re looking for the great conference experience consider attending the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo this April.

Although it’s a full-day event, you can come for just part of the day. We recognize many of you will not be able to take a full day from work and may be able to attend only in the morning or the afternoon. This is totally fine. The morning registration hours is when most people will register, however, there will be someone on the desk to get you your pass throughout the day.

Thinking of Attending? Take a look at the day’s sessions and then register as space is limited. The event will be held at North Carolina State University’s McKimmon Conference & Training Center. I hope to see you there!

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 Enterprise IT is undergoing a platform shift from web-based, client-server systems to a mobile-cloud platform. This shift has caught the attention of all the major tech vendors who have either acquired or launched Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Backend as a Service (BaaS) technologies to address this growing opportunity. Facebook acquired Parse, PayPal bought StackMob, Salesforce launched… Read More

 Pivotal, the enterprise cloud platform that raised a $105 million private equity round last year, today announced a large expansion of its product portfolio today. The update introduces new services for mobile development to the company’s Pivotal CF platform-as-a-service offering that are designed to work side-by-side with the company’s previously announced data services. The… Read More

 Docker, Inc., the commercial company behind the open source Docker project, announced today it had sold its dotCloud Platform as a Service business to Berlin-based cloudControl. The deal allows Docker to focus on its core software containerization business. Docker CEO Ben Golub told TechCrunch the company wanted to concentrate on the Docker part of the business. “At a high level, what… Read More