Greenplum Hires Mark Kirkwood to Help Advance PostgreSQL Capabilities for Business Intelligence; Momentum for Bizgres.org Continues to Build as PostgreSQL Contributor Joins Other Leading Developers and Community Leaders.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Greenplum, sponsor of Bizgres.org, the project that is making PostgreSQL the world's most robust open source database for business intelligence (BI), announced today that it has hired Mark Kirkwood, a PostgreSQL contributor and deep database technologist. Kirkwood will focus full-time on advancing PostgreSQL capabilities for BI and data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse through the Bizgres.org project. "In less than one year, Bizgres.org has become a leading community project, contributing important enterprise BI features and enhancements to PostgreSQL," said Luke Lonergan, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , Greenplum. "Mark's experience, hard work and enthusiasm further strengthen a great Bizgres team working to make PostgreSQL the world's best open source database for BI." Mark Kirkwood has been an active user and community member of PostgreSQL and has contributed several code modules to the PostgreSQL Global Group. Mark previously spent several years at Oracle, working as a developer in the areas of performance tuning Performance tuning is the improvement of system performance. This is typically a computer application, but the same methods can be applied to economic markets, bureaucracies or other complex systems. and database administration. At Greenplum, Mark will focus his Bizgres research and development on resource management, throughput optimization and access methods. "I am very excited to join Greenplum, as I believe that the timing is right for an open source-powered data warehouse product," said Kirkwood. "My role at Greenplum will allow me to focus full-time on contributing to Bizgres.org and working with other leading developers and organizations around the world to develop critical enterprise-class features for PostgreSQL." Over the past year, the Bizgres.org community has quickly grown to thousands of organizations worldwide. Bizgres.org has been responsible for several key PostgreSQL innovations, including on-disk bitmap indexing A bitmap index is a special kind of index that stores the bulk of its data as bit arrays (commonly called "bitmaps") and answers most queries by performing bitwise logical operations on these bitmaps. , which is unique within open source databases, as well as table partitioning and enhancements to sort performance. Bizgres.org is a truly open, multi-vendor community that has attracted leading developers and companies from around the world. Mark Kirkwood joins other key Bizgres community members, including Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Core Team), Alon Goldshuv (Greenplum), Barry Klawans (JasperSoft), Luke Lonergan (Greenplum), Simon Riggs (EnterpriseDB), Nicholas Wakefield (Kinetic kinetic /ki·net·ic/ (ki-net´ik) pertaining to or producing motion. ki·net·ic adj. Of, relating to, or produced by motion. kinetic pertaining to or producing motion. Networks) and Jie Zhang (UC Davis). About Bizgres.org Bizgres.org aims to make PostgreSQL the world's most robust open source database for business intelligence. Bizgres.org is a commercially sponsored and community-supported open source project. About Greenplum Headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , Greenplum is the leading provider of high-performance PostgreSQL for business intelligence. Greenplum's Bizgres family of breakthrough database products is poised to revolutionize rev·o·lu·tion·ize tr.v. rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·es 1. To bring about a radical change in: Television has revolutionized news coverage. 2. the way enterprises use BI to gain key competitive advantages in the marketplace, from departmental data marts A subset of a data warehouse for a single department or function. A data mart may have tens of gigabytes of data rather than hundreds of gigabytes for the entire enterprise. See data warehouse. to multi-terabyte data warehouses. The company sponsors The Bizgres Project, a community effort designed to make PostgreSQL the most robust open source database for data warehousing and BI. For more information about Greenplum, visit www.greenplum.com. For more information on the Bizgres Project, visit www.bizgres.org. |
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