Filed under: Database Blogs
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Vertica Systems has launched a new multi-author blog, Database Column, that will be one to watch. The blog authors are luminary database architects and administrators, CIO’s and IT pros who will shed some light on the evolutions, emerging technologies and developments in the database field. Vertica Systems’ September 5 news release introduces their panel of blog contributors:
- Don Haderle, pictured, technical advisory board member, ANTs Software. Haderle is the father of the IBM DB2 relational database management system. He served as vice president and CTO of the company’s $4 billion information management segment. Haderle secured more than 50 patents and disclosures across all areas of database management while at IBM;
- Dr. Mitch Cherniack, associate professor of computer science at Brandeis University. Cherniack has published numerous research papers about query optimization, profile-driven data management and stream processing systems;Dr. David DeWitt, professor of computer sciences at University of Wisconsin. DeWitt developed the first relational database system benchmark in the early 1980s and has penned more than 100 technical publications about database management;
- Dr. Jerry Held, CEO of the Held Consulting Group. Held is chairman of the Vertica board of directors, chairman of Software Development Technologies, and serves on the boards of Business Objects, Openwave, MetaMatrix and Mirapoint. Previously, he led Oracle Corporation’s server product division, helping the company grow to $6 billion annually.
- Dr. Samuel Madden, assistant professor at the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at MIT. Madden’s past projects include the TinyDB system for data collection from sensor networks and the Telegraph adaptive query processing engine; and,
- Dr. Stan Zdonik, professor of computer science at Brown University, where he has led the Advanced Data Management Research Group since 1983. He has written over 100 research papers focusing on a variety of database technology issues.
Andy Palmer, co-founder and CEO of Vertica Systems discusses the Database Column blog and says, “For the past 30 years, innovation has been slow in the database industry. Now a combination of rapidly growing databases and increasingly complex business queries is forcing the industry to change rapidly. This blog will be an invaluable resource for those who need to see what technology is on the horizon, and what they can do now to better store, query and manage their data.”
This will certainly be a blog to watch!
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