…, for one thing. Also, we blended support and consulting, so you paid our consulting rate for support, when you wanted a more… of other software for which we have offered top-notch consulting since 2006. Just MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server with XtraDB, and… time when needed. Our new system differentiates between support and consulting tickets. We have people literally at the phone and at…
Post: Percona is hiring performance experts
February 13, 2009 By 2 Comments
… consultants to be ready to travel 80% of the time. We do not hire consultants in the way a lot of other consulting… own billing systems like you do at some consulting companies. The successful Percona consultant has a combination of experience, aptitude and attitude… home for an email/IRC/chat/phone based support or consulting organization. If you think you’re a good candidate, please…
Post: Percona turns two today !
August 1, 2008 By 13 Comments
… see what other challenges our customers have and we have consultants joining us with different backgrounds which allows us to provide… obligations to deliver huge returns to anyone. We believe as consulting company we do not need these to maintain comfortable growth… administrative sales process, ensuring we’re paid and paying our consultants, managing people and leadership on leading the company. We’re…
Comment: About This Blog
June 23, 2006 By 48 Comments
…, Sorry I did not notice you are looking for performance consulting services, In other thread I thought you’re looking for some free advice. If you would like to order performance consulting from MySQL you can contact our profession services department. Here… base offers: http://www.mysql.com/consulting/packaged/. You can than request me as consultant if you would like me to perform…
Comment: Time for Zero Administration effort at MySQL ?
January 9, 2012 By 4 Comments
… tasks so what people previously needed consultant for they can do themselves, or can hire consultant for a lot fewer hours. Yet… not believe end result is what you describe – We as consultants just can be relieved from doing mundane work which can…
Post: Tutorial Insights for Percona Live, London
August 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… Availability with DRBD, and with his experience both as Senior Consultant and Instructor he knows how to run a good class… with very in-depth engine operation and when moving to consulting and having lots of practical experience deploying and operating MySQL…. Yves is perhaps one of the most experienced MySQL Cluster consultants in United States, having worked with MySQL Cluster deployments in…
Post: What's required to tune MySQL?
July 27, 2011 By 4 Comments
… considered. More than configuration To do a proper job, the consultant will need more than simply looking at your my.cnf… my.cnf file and see something wrong. Usually, though, the consultant needs to look at several important factors, including the following… addition to requiring more than the configuration as input, the consultant is likely to suggest changes to other areas as a…
Post: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… fit. For example, we frequently refer people to expert PostgreSQL consultants when needed. We believe that people who need Percona’s… offers of partnerships either turn into paid evaluations on a consulting basis, or we reach a mutual understanding that it isn… vice versa. Sometimes we invite vendors to speak to our consulting team on our periodic conference calls, to present their solution…
Comment: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users
November 7, 2010 By 10 Comments
…’s not completely true that constraining yourself to per-hour consulting fee makes you free from any compromising incentives. With your model, you have an incentive to sell more consulting hours! So you could say that Percona is biased to… engineering! What’s worse, since we don’t have a consulting practice, I couldn’t even bill for the 30 minutes…
Post: When to use Hardware upgrade instead of Software Optimization
December 5, 2008 By 5 Comments
… I’ll look at the same topic from the consultants view. When consultant should suggest hardware upgrade and when it is not… balance things and see what can be easily done by consultant or the customer and what is not. Adding the indexes…
