Pythian Group

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
• Christo Kutrovsky: Oracle Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression – Leveraging it Fully
• Marc Fielding: Oracle Exadata I/O Resource Management, Ideal Technology for Consolidation
• Maris Elsins: Concurrent Processing Performance Analysis for Apps DBAs
• Michael Abbey: RMAN Setup Best Practices & Using a Physical Standby to Minimize Downtime for Database Release or Server Change

To meet with Pythian at UKOUG send a note to us.

Web events

• 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!
• Nov. 22, 2011 – “Register – Introducing Oracle Database Appliance with Alex Gorbachev“
• Nov. 23, 2011 – “Register – Under the Hood of Oracle ASM – Fault Tolerance with Alex Gorbachev“
• Nov. 30, 2011 – “Register – Peering Through The Cloud – The Straight Goods on Oracle Exalogic with Marc Fielding“

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.

PYTHIAN NEWS UPDATE

Pythian & Schooner today announced a partnership to delivery advanced support and high availability for MySQL. Customers who are deploying Schooner MySQL into their infrastructure and require additional MySQL technical resources to do so successfully now have a professional services option to consider through Pythian.

Pythian formally partnering with Schooner increases the awareness in the market that Schooner MySQL with Active Cluster is ready for the demands of enterprise deployments and workloads. Customers will benefit because Schooner solves the MySQL replication challenges which many organizations face.

• Read the press release.
• Visit Schooner Information Technology.
• Ask about Pythian services for MySQL.

Building a successful, profitable business isn’t easy. If you’re thinking about it, best to get advice from the “voice of experience”, people who have been in the trenches, fought the startup battle and won.

In an interview with Startup 3.0, Pythian Founder, Paul Vallee tells the tale of how Pythian started and how he built his management team by appointing Andrew Waitman, accomplished businessman and venture capitalist, to the role of CEO. Paul talks candidly about what it takes to build a successful business, provides advice to budding entrepreneurs, and shares the latest Pythian news of being named one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies & opening Pythian’s newest office to bring a new wave of Oracle, MySQL & SQL Server database expertise to Toronto.

Read the full interview.

PYTHIAN NEWS UPDATE

For the second year in a row, Pythian is proud to be named to the prestigious Profit 200 Ranking of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies.

Ranking Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the PROFIT 200 profiles the country’s most successful growth companies. Published in the Summer issue of PROFIT and online at PROFITguide.com, the PROFIT 200 is Canada’s largest annual celebration of entrepreneurial achievement.

Pythian is also happy to announce the official opening of our Toronto, Canada office and the expansion of our local GTA team to include Regional Sales Director, Colin Thompson (previously with Oracle).

PYTHIAN NEWS UPDATE

The Pythian Group, Inc., a leading provider of remote database infrastructure services, is pleased to announce its selection as one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies. Measured against a running five-year revenue growth, Pythian is listed in the NEXT 100, making it one the top 200 companies overall in the 22nd annual PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by PROFIT Magazine.

“We are ecstatic to have our organization achieve the a position on the Profit 100, Next 100 list” said Andrew Waitman, Pythian’s Chief Executive Officer. “Our revenue growth is a true testament to our talented team of industry experts and the hours of hard work we put in for our clients.”

Paul Vallee, Pythian’s Founder and Executive Chairman attributes the success to the company’s unique, flexible outsourcing engagement model. “The world is different today. Rapid economic changes brought about by global economic forces require businesses to be agile, and able to rapidly respond to increases or decreases in demand. Service provider models must also adapt to the needs and demands of today’s customer.”
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For very personal reasons that don’t belong in this article, I decided a few weeks ago that it’s time for me to move on. The year and a half that I worked for Pythian have been a wonderful experience, and this is article is my tribute to this great company.

The MySQL Team

Being able to work side by side with two MySQL experts like Sheeri Cabral and Augusto Bott has been a great experience. I have learned a lot, not only about MySQL, but also about what a great DBA should be like. Both of them are recognized MySQL Community members and regular speakers at the MySQL Users Conference and other events. Sheeri has been named MySQL Community Member of the Year twice in a row. Both are a guarantee of excellent service.

My Predictions For Pythian

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