Bill Nye the Science Guy to Discuss the Value of Science, Critical Thinking and Reason

/EINPresswire.com/ -- DURHAM, NC -- (Marketwired) -- 03/08/16 -- Percona, the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL® and MongoDB® solutions and services, today announced the keynote sessions for Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 (formerly MySQL Conference and Expo), which will take place April 18-21, 2016 at The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center. Sponsorship opportunities are still available. A discounted block of reserved rooms at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara is filling quickly, so attendees are urged to reserve now. The reservation block expires on March 25, 2016.

Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 is the premier event for the rich and diverse open source community and businesses that thrive in the MySQL and NoSQL marketplaces. Attendees include DBAs, sysadmins, developers, architects, CTOs, and CEOs representing organizations from industry giants such as Oracle to start-ups. Vendors increasingly rely on the conference as a major opportunity to connect with potential high-value customers from around the world.

Keynote Sessions

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Session Title &                          Description
        Speakers
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                    DAY 1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome

Peter Zaitsev, CEO of
Percona
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Transcending database  Machine learning enables businesses to gain
tuning problems: How    competitive advantage through predictive analytics.
machine learning helps  But if we look deeper into the data stack, we find
DBAs play more ping     the need for the same predictive capabilities for
pong"                   MySQL tuning. With over 1,013 possible tuning
                        permutations, some requiring reboots or a rebuild,
Chad Jones, Chief       DBAs spend too much time on MySQL tuning for a
Strategy Officer, Deep  point-in-time situation that changes constantly.
Information Sciences    This session will show how unsupervised machine
                        learning based on resource, workload and information
                        modeling can predictively and continuously tune
                        databases.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Things to Keep a Nye   The best science is built on solid data. As a world-
On - A Scientist's      renowned icon in tech and geek circles everywhere,
Thirst for Knowledge    Bill Nye fights to raise awareness of the value of
and an Engineer's       science, critical thinking, and reason. He hopes
Vision of What Can Be"  that the data he brings will help inspire people
                        everywhere to change the world. Bill is the CEO of
Bill Nye                the Planetary Society.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                    DAY 2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Take back the power in As database engineers, we have had to support the
your cloud applications crazy dreams of application developers since the
with Apache Cassandra"  beginning of the internet. I say let's take back the
                        power! It's time to use a tool that was built for
Patrick McFadin, Chief  just this problem. I'm talking about Apache
Evangelist for Apache   Cassandra and how it can help you eliminate down
Cassandra at DataStax   time or span your data around the world with ease.
                        Deploying to the cloud isn't always easy, so give
                        your application developers the best chance they can
                        get and sleep easy at night. I'll tell you how to do
                        it and you'll be happy again.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
PANEL: "Data in the     As larger and larger datasets move to the cloud, new
Cloud: Cloudy with a    challenges and opportunities emerge in handling such
chance of running out   workloads. New technologies, revamped products, and
of disk space? Or Sunny a never-ending stream of ideas follow in the wake of
times ahead?"           this advance. These aim to improve the performance
                        and manageability of cloud-based data, but are they
Matt Yonkovit, Vice     enough? What issues still need to be worked out? And
President of Services   where are we going as an industry?
at Percona (Moderator)

Thomas Hazel, Founder,
CTO and Chief Scientist
at Deep Information
Science

Mark Callaghan,
Technical Staff at
RocksDB

Kyle Bader, Senior
Architect, Red Hat

Reddy Chagam, Principal
Engineer and Chief SDS
Architect, Intel Data
Center Group at Intel
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"MySQL: Combining SQL   MySQL 5.7 delivered major improvements in
and NoSQL"              performance, scalability and manageability. Let's
                        explore how MySQL can deliver on the promises of
Tomas Ulin, Vice        NoSQL, while keeping all the proven benefits of SQL.
President MySQL         This talk includes providing a better understanding
Development at Oracle   of the MySQL development priorities and what the
                        future holds for the world's most popular open
                        source database.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"MyRocks, MongoRocks    This talk will discuss how and why MyRocks provides
and RocksDB"            better performance, efficiency and compression using
                        real and synthetic workloads. In one case, MyRocks
Mark Callaghan,         gets 2X better compression compared to compressed
Technical Staff at      InnoDB for a production workload. For these reasons,
RocksDB                 we expect MyRocks to become the web-scale storage
                        engine for MySQL.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                    DAY 3
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Winning with Open      With the complexity of today's web applications, and
Source Databases"       the databases, systems and hardware that support
                        them, organizations must use the right open source
Peter Zaitsev, CEO of   tools and technology for each job -- without getting
Percona                 locked into a proprietary solution. With Percona,
                        customers are assured a choice in technology options
                        that are completely open source and include
                        enterprise features. Learn how Percona is a true
                        open source partner that helps you optimize your
                        database performance to better run your business.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"AWS Big Data Services: In this talk, I will provide an under the hood view
Reimagining Big Data    of some of the most popular Big Data services at AWS
Processing in the       including Amazon DynamoDB -- a NoSQL service, Amazon
Cloud"                  Redshift -- a peta-byte scale data warehouse
                        service, Amazon EMR -- an elastic map-reduce
Anurag Gupta, Vice      service, and Amazon Aurora -- a massively scalable


President of Big Data   relational database service, all designed and
Services at AWS         optimized for the cloud. I will also talk about best
                        practices in understanding customer desires and
                        behavior from Big Data and how to achieve 1:1
                        customer experience at scale.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Community Awards        The Community Awards are independently organized and
                        acknowledge individual achievement in a variety of
                        categories.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sponsorships
Sponsorship opportunities for Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 are available and offer the opportunity to interact with more than 1,250 DBAs, sysadmins, developers, CTOs, CEOs, business managers, technology evangelists, solution vendors, and entrepreneurs who typically attend the event. Current sponsors include:

Diamond Plus: Deep Information Science, RocksDB
Platinum: Rackspace, VividCortex
Gold: Amazon Web Services
Silver: Shopify, Yelp
Exhibit: Agildata, Blackmesh, Box, Codership, Grafana.net, Pythian, Red Hat, ScaleArc, SolarWinds, DBSeer, Vertabelo,
Other: Google, Intel, MailChimp
Media: Database Trends & Applications, Datanami, Opensource.com, O'Reilly Media

Planning to Attend?
Visit the Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 website for more information about the conference. Interested community members can also register to receive email updates about Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016.

Percona Live Conferences

What: Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016
Where: The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center
5101 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054
When: April 18-21, 2016

About Percona

With more than 3,000 customers worldwide, Percona is the only company that delivers enterprise-class solutions for both MySQL and MongoDB across traditional and cloud-based platforms. The company provides Software, Support, Consulting, and Managed Services to some of the largest and most well-known brands on the Internet such as Cisco Systems, Time Warner Cable, Alcatel-Lucent, Groupon, and the BBC, as well as to many smaller companies looking to maximize application performance while streamlining database efficiencies. Well established as thought leaders, Percona experts author content for the Percona Data Performance Blog. The popular Percona Live conferences draw attendees and acclaimed speakers from around the world. For more information, visit www.percona.com.

Percona®, XtraBackup®, TokuDB® and Fractal Tree® are registered trademarks of Percona LLC or its subsidiaries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners.

Company Information

Press Contacts
Brigit Valencia
For Percona
(360) 597-4516
Email Contact

Legal Disclaimer:

EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.