Today, VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 became generally available. With this update we are excited to announce vSAN 6.6.1, which adds even more new features on top of the major vSAN 6.6 release that launched only a few months back. Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)powered by vSAN will now benefit from even lower operational costs and accelerated

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Oxford, United Kingdom - August 27, 2017

2ndQuadrant is proud to announce that the 2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Conference 2017 (2Q PGConf, for short) will be hosted on November 7th in New York City, NY (with optional training day on Nov. 6th) and November 9th in Chicago, IL.

2Q PGConf is a conference dedicated to exchanging knowledge about PostgreSQL and helping you to understand how it can work for your enterprise or business.

2Q PGConf provides a unique opportunity to learn more about PostgreSQL from world-class experts talking about both recent achievements and the exciting developments coming in the future.

In addition to the world class talks being presented in New York and Chicago - we are also offering training sessions the day before the conference in New York (Nov. 6) in the following areas: Postgres-BDR, Postgres-XL & Performance, and PostgreSQL 10 New Features.

For more details about 2Q PGConf 2017, please visit http://www.2qpgconf.com/#about

Call for Papers

Call for Papers is officially open! We are looking for dynamic presentations, case studies, and talks on the following topics:

• PostgreSQL 10
• PostgreSQL 11 - What's in store for the future of PostgreSQL?
• Administering large scale PostgreSQL installations
• Case studies and/or success stories of PostgreSQL deployments (or interesting failures)
• PostgreSQL tools and utilities
• Community and local user groups
• Tuning and performance improvements
• Migration from other database systems
• Replication, Clustering and High Availability
• Disaster Recovery and Backup strategies
• Benchmarking and hardware
• DevOps and continuous deployment/configuration/integration around PostgreSQL

This list is not exhaustive, we would love to receive any interesting submissions surrounding PostgreSQL.

For a full list of topics or to submit a talk, visit http://www.2qpgconf.com/#cfp

Submission deadline is midnight August 22, 2017 Pacific Time.

Sponsorship

Want to be a part of the Open Source PostgreSQL movement? Join us as a sponsor of 2Q PGConf 2017! Read about sponsorship opportunities at http://www.2qpgconf.com/#sponsors

Important Dates

• 25 July 2017 - CFP Opens
• 22 Aug 2017 - CFP Closes
• 5 Sept 2017 - Speakers are informed of talk acceptance

For any additional questions or information about 2Q PGConf, please contact 2QPGConf@2ndQuadrant.com

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