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Ralph Breslauer, CEO of analytic database leader Vertica, joins influential financial experts at Venture Summit East in Boston
Conference touted as the place “Where the Big Money Meets the Big Ideas”
| Who: | Ralph Breslauer, CEO of Vertica, a leading data warehouse database management software company, brings more than 20 years of successful business development and software sales growth experience to Vertica’s strong leadership team. Breslauer drives Vertica’s growth, research and development, sales, customer adoption and strategic partnerships to ensure companies of every size can capitalize on the substantial benefits of the high-performance Vertica Analytic Database. He works with co-founders Mike Stonebraker and Andy Palmer as well as chairman of the board Jerry Held to continue Vertica’s development as the market innovator for high-performance analytic database management systems that run on industry-standard hardware or in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). |
| What: | Presented by AlwaysOn, JPMorgan and Forbes.com, Venture Summit East is a two-day gathering of senior high-tech and digital media execs that explores the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting today’s business ecosystem. The speaker list includes recognized venture capital and private equity leaders, as well as accomplished CEOs from New England. |
| Details: | Friday, May 22, 2009 at 10:15am — Salon II — “Applying Wisdom from the Last Downturn to the Recession of 2009″Seasoned innovation-economy veterans describe how to survive the 2009 downturn
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| When: | Venture Summit East takes place May 20-22, 2009 |
| Where: | The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Boston |
About Vertica
Vertica Systems is the market innovator for high-performance analytic database management systems that run on industry-standard hardware. Co-founded by database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica has developed column-oriented analytic database technology with an MPP architecture that lets companies of any size store and query very large databases orders of magnitude faster and more affordably than other solutions. The Vertica Analytic Database is available as software only, as a hardware based appliance, as a virtual appliance on VMware or online as a cloud computing solution. The technology’s unmatched speed, scalability, flexibility and ease of use helps customers like JP Morgan Chase, Verizon, Mozilla, Comcast, Level(3) Communications and Vonage capitalize on business opportunities in real time. Vertica is headquartered in Billerica, Mass. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at http://www.vertica.com.