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Vertica Tech Talk

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 4:00 P.M.

Lubrano Conference Room (CIT 4th Floor)

Vertica Systems is an innovative startup in Andover, MA, developing a new kind of database technology for multi-terabyte data warehouses. Co-founded in 2005 by industry pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica's column-oriented distributed database running on cheap, industry-standard Linux hardware can beat conventional row-stores by orders of magnitude on both price and performance. This talk will describe the benefits of a column-oriented database architecture, why it is particularly relevant in today's hardware and the many key technical innovations that make Vertica blindingly fast, scalable and extremely easy to use.

Speaker Bio:

Shilpa Lawande is VP Engineering at Vertica and brings over 10 years of experience in databases, data warehousing and grid computing. Prior to Vertica, she was a key member of the Oracle Server Technologies group where she worked directly on several data warehousing and self-managing features in the Oracle 9i and 10g databases. Shilpa is a co-inventor on several patents on query optimization, materialized views and automatic index tuning for databases. She has also co-authored two books on data warehousing using the Oracle database as well as a book on Enterprise Grid Computing. Shilpa has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Refreshments will be served.

Vertica is hiring! Bring your resume to the talk.

Host: Industrial Partners Program


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