Webinars

Our webinars aim to provide useful information for MySQL users and Continuent customers and discuss topics focussed on achieving continuous operations for business-critical MySQL applications.

Is “Free” Good Enough For Your Business-Critical MySQL Environment?

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Watch the replay of this joint webinar with our partner Datavail hosted by DBTA

Business-Critical MySQL using open source is free, right? Managed MySQL cloud services don’t need DBAs, right? Think again!

MySQL can be the perfect answer for fast-growing, highly-performant and geographically-distributed database environments, but in order to function as a business-critical system with immediate response times, the ubiquitous database server needs a little help.

Watch this special webinar to learn about the limitations and hidden costs of DIY solutions for business-critical MySQL. In addition, find out why ‘managed’ database-as-a-service solutions, like AWS Aurora, may not be quite as self-managing as people would like to believe.

You’ll hear several case studies on how clients are effectively utilizing Continuent Tungsten software and Datavail services to optimize their MySQL environments.

Agenda

Hidden costs of ‘free’ DIY solutions for business-critical MySQL
How managed are the ‘managed' database-as-a-service solutions such as AWS Aurora?
Three use cases of Business Critical MySQL
- HA - Online radio service with tens of millions of users
- HA/DR - Modern, award-winning SaaS focusing on medical records management
- Geo-distributed Database — Large gaming company with hundreds of millions of players
Benefits of Continuent solutions
What Datavail brings on top of these solutions
Q&A

Presenters

Srinivasa Krishna

Practice Leader – MySQL Practice, Datavail

Krishna has more than 11 years of experience in the IT industry, including 8+ years as a MySQL database administrator and manager with Datavail. Krishna now leads that growing practice for Datavail, and is partnering with companies like Continuent to find additional solutions that optimize clients’ MySQL environments. He specializes in MySQL database administration but also have deep knowledge and expertise in technologies like MongoDB, Amazon Redshift and Linux Administration and scripting. He also specializes in database architecture, database administration, high availability solutions, performance tuning, and managing enterprise level database support. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from the University of Madras.

Eero Teerikorpi

Founder and CEO, Continuent

The founder of Continuent is a 7-time serial entrepreneur who has more than 30 years of high-tech management and enterprise software experience. Eero has been in the MySQL marketplace virtually since day one, from the early 2000s. Eero has held top management positions at various cross-Atlantic entities (CEO at Alcom Corporation, President at Capslock, Executive Board Member at Esker S.A.) Eero started his career as a Product Manager at Apple Computer in Finland in the mid-80s. Eero also owns and manages a boutique NOET Vineyards producing high-quality dry-farmed Cabernet Sauvignon.

Eero is a former Navy officer and still an avid sailor on San Francisco Bay and around the world. Eero is a very active sportsman: a 4+ tennis player, a rookie golfer, a very careful mountain biker, and an experienced (40+ years) skier, both slalom and cross-country.