Three Easy Pieces to Today's Postgres

Postgres has advanced in ways that support three critical market demands - for improvements in ease-of-use, high-end enterprise requirements and new, emerging workloads for next-generation applications and application design practices. Postgres has made tremendous progress in these areas with expanded NoSQL capabilities, data federation and virtual data warehousing capabilities represented by new, more powerful Foreign Data Wrappers and continued enhancements to scalability and performance.

About the Speaker
Marc Linster is the Senior Vice President, Products and Services, EnterpriseDB. Before joining EnterpriseDB, Marc spent almost 4 years at Polycom, the leading maker of video communications equipment, focusing on the Services Supply Chain, Business Intelligence, Customer Data Management and Cloud Solutions. Prior to Polycom, Marc led a supply chain consulting and systems integration company working with customers in the US, Canada, France, Germany and Switzerland. This tapped the expertise he developed at Avicon Group, where he spent six years, first as chief technology officer then as vice president of operations, developing an extensive background in management, business consulting, systems integration, data management and business intelligence. Marc holds a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat) in Computer Sciences from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.