Amer Sports captures MySQL support

Sporting goods company Amer Sports – the home of brands including Arc’teryx and Wilson – as chosen a support partner for its MySQL databases

As the company’s ecommerce operations grow and consumer spending behaviour shifts online, Amer Sports has appointed Percona to support its continued digital transformation and ensure its MySQL databases are optimised to provide the real-time performance and scalability both it and its customers require.

Percona’s team of open source database experts will implement best practices and support services across Amer Sports’ MySQL database deployments, reducing operational costs, improving performance and enhancing security.

Pascal Bocquet, IT operations team lead at Amer Sports, said: “Working directly with Percona is very important for our group as it gives us the benefit of available experts, trained teams, and enterprise grade support, as well enabling us to be proactive participants in our future evolutions around databases in general.”