Percona Live 2022 is a wrap, and there was no better way to close out a great event than with our annual partner awards!
Each year, we’re honored to select a group of partners who’ve gone above and beyond to bring Percona’s products, support, and services to companies worldwide. These partners play a vital role in helping organizations modernize their database environments through the power and freedom of open source.
“Successful partnerships not only provide opportunities to reach new clients, but also offer valuable insights into your customer’s needs,” said Giuseppe Vitulano, Executive Vice President, Global Sales at Percona. “Having these insights is a critical precondition for a tailored solution that addresses the core business needs of the end client.”
During this year’s ceremony, live for the first time in two years, our partners took home awards in two categories: Most Valuable Partner and Strategic Partner of the Year.
Most Valuable Partner awards
Percona’s Most Valuable Partner (MVP) awards are given regionally to those companies who co-sell Percona products and services and provide an additional layer of technical value to customers.
America’s Most Valuable Partner
Paragon Micro, United States
Paragon Micro helps customers solve complex IT challenges and deliver the desired business outcome through next-generation IT technology solutions.
“We’re honored to accept this award. This partnership allows Paragon Micro to remain on the leading edge of the database field by expanding the tools and resources that we have intimate access to as a result of the strength of our growing partnership with Percona.” – Joe Yamour, Vice President of Public Sector, Paragon Micro
“Paragon has demonstrated all of the skills we are looking for from our Reseller Partners. Proactive, great communication, eager to learn more, and laser focus on the customer’s needs, I am very bullish on what we can achieve together with Paragon Micro. In particular, with the teams that they are building in the public sector and internationally.“ – Bill Irwin, Vice President, Sales, Americas, Percona
Joe Yamour, Vice President of Public Sector, Paragon Micro, accepting MVP award
EMEA Most Valuable Partner
NessPRO, Israel
NessPRO, the software distribution arm of Ness Technologies, empowers customers through advanced software solutions that facilitate enhanced business and operation efficiencies in the era of digital transformation.
“Prominent Israeli companies in the financial sector and in the high-tech industry are looking to move from relational to NoSQL databases. These companies are showing great interest in Percona server for MongoDB and are conducting feasibility studies. The feedback we’re receiving from them is excellent. We believe these companies will adopt Percona as part of their architecture. Percona’s products and services enable record database performance and allow technical teams to focus on issues related to their organizations’ core business. Today, open source databases are extremely complex with large workloads, and their maintenance requires a great deal of knowledge and experience. Percona experts provide the best products and services to ensure optimal operation of the databases.” – Eli Alafi, Director Data and Innovation at NessPRO, Ness’ software products group
“Eli and the team at Ness Technologies are superb partners. They are technically adept, have database intelligence and offerings, and continue to position Percona offerings to their customers. We are happy to have a platform to acknowledge our partnership and the way they add value by helping us scale to new customers and new technical conversations.”- Jason Meshberg, Head of Resellers and Channels, Percona
Elena Bugnet, Percona Partner Sales Manager, EMEA, accepting MVP award on behalf of Ness Technology Israel
APAC Most Valuable Partner
Smartstyle, Japan
Smartstyle is an IT solutions company specializing in MySQL.
“We are honored to be named a Percona Most Valuable Partner and appreciate this award as recognition of our long-term partnership. SmartStyle has worked with Percona since 2013, selling licenses and providing technical support to Japanese customers. Our engineers are constantly improving their skills in service to our clients, and thanks to Percona’s excellent products and support, which our customers value, we have been rapidly growing and developing as a company. Together with the community of database performance experts and inspired by this award, we will continue to drive better technology and work hard to provide even better support and services to our customers.” – SmartStyle
“Smartstyle has uniquely taken care of many customers with Percona in Japan by providing L0/L1 support and important translation and language support. Smartstyle works closely with our account and customer success teams to achieve strong business outcomes for our Japanese customers. I am proud to acknowledge our partnership and friendship and be able to rely on Smartstyle to communicate product innovations with Percona Platform.” –Jason Meshberg, Head of Resellers and Channels, Percona
Aditya Pulastaya, Percona Partner Sales Manager, APAC, accepting MVP award on behalf of SmartStyle Japan.
Strategic Partner of the Year award
Each year, Percona’s Strategic Partner of the Year Award honors one company that has been most instrumental in helping to drive Percona’s technology and growth strategy.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Service is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
“AWS is receiving this acknowledgement due to the various engagements we have with their teams. AWS teams have leveraged our expertise in high performance databases to accelerate customer cloud journeys. We endeavor to do more with an active path to marketplace automation and a consistent partner development model where we continue to find new grounds and new customers that can benefit from our partnership.” – Jason Meshberg, Head of Resellers and Channels, Percona
Congratulations to all the winners! See you next year at Percona Live 2023.
Become a Percona partner
To learn more about the Percona partner program, please email us at [email protected].
