Provider of support and consulting services for MySQL, Percona, celebrates supporting their 1000th customer. Founded in 2006 and having a staff of 50 people globally, Percona provides MySQL support to companies such as Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Groupon, the BBC, and StumbleUpon; attributing success to heir lower system downtime, faster time to market, cost savings, state-of-the-art solutions, and business agility.