Continuent have been a long term sponsor of the Percona Live conference, and the MySQL conference as it was before that, for many years. We have attended the conference both as a Diamond sponsor, and members of our staff attending and presenting our products and experience at the conference.

The nature of these conferences always changes over time, and we have seen over the last few years how the Percona Live conference has moved from being a pure MySQL conference to an open source database conference. Although Continuent continue to provide open source software and integrate with many open source databases, our core operation still revolves around MySQL clustering and replication for MySQL and Oracle.

Continuent is also evolving and changing and we are increasingly deploying and moving towards pure cloud-based environments, building and developing products that are used on the cloud or explicitly leverage cloud computing technology. We have a number of new products and initiatives specifically targeting these areas.

Over the course of the next year we will be releasing cloud editions of our clustering, replication and new backup and proxy services both directly and through our partners.

As such, this year we have made the difficult decision not to sponsor or attend the Percona Live conference, directing our energies to other conferences, webinars and meetups. We will be attending the AWS conference, for example, and we fully intend to be at some other select conferences this year dealing with analytics, in-memory computing, and cloud-based deployments.

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