Today was a double celebration for Pythian & founder Paul Vallée (happy birthday again Paul).
We’re thrilled to be recognized for our unique and varied culture of top industry talent. I’m proud to announce our latest award, the 2012 Employer Excellence Award for Retention and Engagement by Hire Immigrants Ottawa, for our achievement in workplace diversity. Read the news, or watch Paul’s acceptance speech.
Looking for a great job opportunity? We’re hiring! If you love data as much as we do make the first move and register with us & check out our latest postings. It will be the best move of your career!
From left: Paul Vallee, Pythian; Adrian Harewood, CBC; and Denyce Daiken, Algonquin College. Photo courtesy of HIO.
We’d like to take this day of adoration to thank our clients and partners for their loyalty and business. We hope we say it enough: we love your data.
One of the most familiar icons on this day of romance is Cupid, the god of love. And just like Cupid, our roots also go back to the classics – with the Greek priestess Pythia. Commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi, the Pythia was widely credited for her prophecies inspired by Apollo. The Pythia was an esteemed source of wisdom in ancient Greece. We’d like to hold a similar place in your heart—and the hearts of all our clients and our extended Pythian family of partners and community friends—for the insights we can offer into data and applications infrastructure.
Just like a supportive spouse or partner, Pythian will always be there for your data. With Pythian’s 24/7 support, we’re around when you need us.
Through the ups and downs of life, your data will never go unloved. We know that it’s the little things that mean the most. With Pythian, your data receives constant touches of tender loving care.
Successful and long lasting relationships are based on good teamwork. While others might shy away from a challenging relationship…we’re in it for the long run.
Happy Valentine’s Day from the entire team at Pythian.
Pythian continues to have a busy quarter with events right up to the end of the 2011 calendar year.
If you happened to miss us at a past event, email events@pythian.com to reconnect or request a copy of the any of the presentations we’ve made through 2011 or earlier.
Live events
Ottawa, ON – Nov. 16, 2011 – The HRPA presents it’s 2011/2012 CEO Dinner series and kicks off the season with a rare appearance by Pythian CEO Andrew Waitman speaking with his unique insight on “Perspectives on Business Success and The Critical Role of HR”. If you missed this rare opportunity to hear Andrew and are interested in the subject, reach out to us to connect with him.
Birmingham, UK – Dec. 5-7th, 2011 – Find Pythian experts at the UKOUG’s Annual User Group Conference. Founder Paul Vallee will be in attendance, along with our sales and local UK team members. Catch sessions by:
Alex Gorbachev: Database I/O Performance, Measurement, Planning & Amazon RDS, EC2 and S3 for Oracle Databases
Nov. 2011 – Movember Campaign: Team Pythian, both individually and collectively are adding to the “mo”mentum of the Movember “mo”vement in support of men’s health issues. Go Mo’s go!
Watch for Pythian across North America presenting our experience with Oracle Database Appliance in various cities and at various user group and local Oracle events in conjunction with your Oracle field sales team. If you missed us recently at TOUG, and NoCOUG – send us a note at oda@pythian.com and we’ll share our beta experience and details of the free migration offer we announced at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 where Pythian will upgrade or migrate you to ODA free of charge. Get all of your ODA questions answered candidly by our expert team, and learn how to take advantage of all Oracle Database Appliance has to offer and get upgraded to Oracle Database 11g in the process.
Better late than never – we absolutely have prizes this year for the Blogger’s Meetup. Alex has been way too busy of late to get this organized (joking, not ALL his fault…). Seriously, we do have prizes. We will have beer and there will be food at Jillian’s in a very short time.
I gotta run and get this organized, so this post is short and sweet. Should be no complaints as this year we have not just two, but THREE prizes. Read on, or you’ll get the scoop at the meetup.
1) Bandana art contest on stylish Pythian & OTN designer bandanas — one lucky blogger will receive an Ipod touch generously sponsored by Pythian (we love this event, can you tell?).
2) For the best, most creative blog post about the meetup itself, OTN is giving away a free registration to Oracle OpenWorld in 2012. But, there are a few small rules:
the blog post must use as many names of people in attendance as possible.
the blog post must be readable. It needs to make sense to someone who wasn’t there. It must be a story and not a list.
Live from Oracle OpenWorld Pythian is thrilled to share news of our big win: Oracle North America Titan Award for Oracle Exadata solution that was planned, deployed and is currently managed for online marketing corporation LinkShare in New York.
Pythian and Scalar Decisions today announced a formal partnership providing Oracle customers an unparalleled one-stop shop solution provider in Canada. Combined, we can help Oracle customers develop, fulfill, implement, and manage their whole Oracle solution stack.
Pythian makes deployment of new Oracle Database Appliance even easier with fixed-price offering. Pythian’s EasyMigrate offering gives customers firm pricing and a predictable, streamlined migration plan to get Oracle Database Appliance up and running in the shortest possible timeframe.
Today was a busy day in the news for Pythian, as Oracle released Oracle Database Appliance. Pythian is now offering fixed-price services to migrate to ODA and support it on an ongoing basis. Small and midsized business can leverage Pythian’s Oracle expertise and take full advantage of the cost and performance advantages of ODA.
Will you be at Oracle OpenWorld? Pythian is presenting tips, best practices, real-world experiences and lessons learned at over 8 sessions, including co-presentations with clients Western Union and WWT. If you want to connect with any of our technical, sales or executives team attending send us an email.
Pythian is happy to announce today the achievement of three new Oracle PartnerNetwork Specializations bringing the total to seven under our Platinum level membership of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) program.
Now added to the list are Oracle Exadata, Oracle Data Warehousing, and Oracle GoldenGate.
Complementing the added specializations is Pythian’s launch of new Oracle Exadata-focused products and services including an Oracle Database 11g Release 2 migration calculator, Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache Monitoring Tool, and an Oracle Exadata Managed Services program that extends the company’s Oracle Exadata-readiness services.
Pythian’s most recent Oracle Exadata clients include a major financial services company in New York and an e-commerce company specializing in data aggregation for the travel industry. Pythian’s Oracle GoldenGate expertise is supporting Western Union currently.
In celebration of the company’s 14 year anniversary, Pythian today announced a donation of $30K worth of scholarships to support students in the MIS Program at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management.
The scholarship will support four Honours Bachelor of Commerce students specializing in Management Information Services (MIS) each year by providing them with a $2,500 scholarship and a paid internship.
Since opening its doors in 1997, Pythian has grown from an ambitious local startup into one of the world’s most respected database services companies. Founder Paul Vallée and team members Marc Fielding, Sylvain Fontaine, and Greg Leger are alumni of the MIS program. Read the rest of this entry . . .
Fahd states that “Oracle Exadata Database Machine” has most changed his life – changing the game, and setting very high standards of performance, support, scalability, reliability and unification.
Shout out to Fahd from your peers at Pythian!
I guess there might be just a little truth to Pythian’s growing reputation as an “Oracle ACE Factory” ;), as recently mentioned by Justin Kestelyn in the May 11, 2011 OPN PartnerCast:
Please join me in congratulating Fahd by adding a comment below.
