Pythian DevOps services accelerate AWS adoption and delivery of innovative customer experiences

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – AWS RE:INVENT – October 6, 2015 – Pythian, a global IT services company specializing in helping companies adopt disruptive technologies to optimize revenue-generating systems, today announced it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) DevOps Competency. As an addition to Pythian’s existing Advanced Consulting Partner status in the APN, the DevOps Competency further validates the company’s deep capabilities and demonstrated performance in helping customers transform their business to be more efficient and agile leveraging the AWS platform and DevOps principles, particularly around continuous integration, continuous delivery, and configuration management.

Pythian DevOps services use a documented maturity model and client-centric strategic planning process to …

Addition of support for Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise extends Pythian’s leadership in extreme-scale database deployments and big data services

OTTAWA, Canada – July 8, 2015 – Pythian, a global IT services company specializing in helping companies leverage disruptive technologies to optimize revenue-generating systems, today announced the general availability of its consulting and follow-the-sun managed services support for both Apache™ Cassandra™ and DataStax®, the company that delivers Apache Cassandra to the enterprise. Cassandra is an open-source, distributed database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure.

Pythian leverages an extensive suite of managed services, tools, and database experience to get organizations up and running in their Cassandra and …

Alvarez will help deliver industry-leading database management services to the Asia-Pacific region

OTTAWA, Ontario — September 8, 2014 — Pythian, the global leader in data management consulting and services, today appointed Francisco Alvarez as Vice President, Asia Pacific to oversee the company’s regional expansion effort and deliver high-level database and data infrastructure support to an underserved region.

In his new role, Alvarez will oversee a team of more than 50 Pythian experts. Alvarez will be based out of Pythian’s Macquarie Park, Australia office and be responsible for extending Pythian services in major practice areas, including Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, big data, DevOps, and system administration. He will also manage all Pythian user groups in the Asia-Pacific region.

“In a career spanning more than two …

Acquisition positions Pythian for industry shift with additional DevOps, big data, enterprise infrastructure, MySQL, and NoSQL services and expertise

OTTAWA, Ontario and SAN FRANCISCO — June 26, 2014 — Pythian, the global leader in data management consulting and services, today announced that it acquired Blackbird.io, a DevOps and data services provider. The acquisition is part of Pythian’s strategy to leverage the rapid increase in demand for agile development, operations, and technology delivered “as a service.” With the addition of Blackbird.io’s team, Pythian will now become the largest open-sourced database managed services company in the world.

Blackbird.io, formerly PalominoDB and DriveDev, is dedicated to helping its customers achieve optimal development velocity and operational excellence. The company supports applications …