The firm’s former president, Ann Schlemmer, will step into the CEO role following the departure from that post by Peter Zaitsev, the founder of the company.

To predict the future of open data and open databases, Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev suggests that we need to look backwards to early mainframe machines. If we track the next 70 years of progress ...

The proliferation of large language models and generative AI has created fertile ground for vector database technologies to flourish.

Peter Zaitsev reported recently that new versions of MySQL Community edition are no longer available for download from the MySQL Download Area. This provoked a storm of speculation that MySQL was ...

Oracle's stewardship has been good for the MySQL database argues Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev.

In June, Peter Zaitsev, an early MySQL engineer and founder of open source consultancy Percona, said he feared the lack of features in MySQL was a result of Oracle’s focus on Heatwave, a ...

“First and foremost, I’d like to thank Peter Zaitsev for the exemplary leadership he’s provided Percona since its inception,” said Percona CEO Ann Schlemmer.

Russia-born Peter Zaitsev, who went on to co-found open source database consultancy Percona, was involved with MySQL from 1999 as a young entrepreneur and engineer and went to join the company in ...

Open source software practitioners tend to see everything in black and white: it’s open source or its proprietary. So says Peter Zaitsev, co-founder of managed database firm Percona and investor ...

Peter Zaitsev, founder of open source database services company Percona, said in the panel discussion. “Governance is very important, because if it’s a single corporation, they can change a ...