REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - April 12, 2010 - Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today that Roger Burkhardt, president and CEO, will put the spotlight on Ingres VectorWise and the breakthrough capabilities it enables for business applications in the cloud at SugarCon 2010. SugarCon 2010 unites CRM customers and developers with companies and projects committed to building open business applications for the cloud. The conference takes place today through Wednesday at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA. Burkhardt's presentation titled "Gain a Competitive Edge with Customer Data" is set for Wednesday from 4:10 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. (PT) as part of the business applications in the cloud track.
Ingres VectorWise is a groundbreaking database technology that delivers the performance required to analyze today's exploding quantity of customer data to enable instant profit maximization. This breakthrough performance means SugarCRM customers can analyze critical business data at speeds previously considered impossible. Built on the proven open source enterprise class Ingres Database, this is the first database technology to take advantage of the massive advances in modern chip technology from Intel and others to generate up to 80 fold improvements in database efficiency.
At SugarCon, Burkhardt will explain how Ingres VectorWise enables a new generation of business applications in the cloud by powering instant analysis of customer data right down to the click level. Attendees will learn about the availability of a full range of complementary open source tools and open standards programming interfaces. They will also learn how Ingres collaborated with Intel on the project to leverage their latest technology to deliver this competitive edge. Ingres VectorWise is a collaboration between Ingres and VectorWise, a spin out from the leading database research team at CWI of Amsterdam, a research institute in mathematics and computer science. To learn more about Ingres VectorWise, please go to http://www.ingres.com/vectorwise/.
"Ingres VectorWise unlocks the power of modern hardware for the very first time and I am very pleased to be asked to present at SugarCon and detail further how this powerful technology can change the speed in which we access critical business information," said Roger Burkhardt, president and CEO, Ingres. "Early results demonstrated by our partners and customers in the beta program show that Ingres VectorWise can easily analyze business data at the 'speed of thought' which you must do in order to compete and succeed in today's fast-paced global economy. Ingres VectorWise truly is breakthrough technology from a proven company and I look forward to giving the attendees of SugarCon a first glimpse of the future of database technology."
SugarCon 2010, SugarCRM's fourth annual user and customer conference, brings together SugarCRM users, developers, partners and industry experts from around the world. Packed with more than 100 sessions, SugarCon provides a wealth of practical knowledge that any business can apply to improve performance and differentiate in the market.
For more information about SugarCon, visit: http://www.sugarcon.com.
Ingres is a leading open source database management company. We are one of the largest open source companies in the world and the pioneer of the New Economics of IT, providing open source solutions at a dramatically reduced cost compared with proprietary software vendors. As a leader in the New Economics of IT, Ingres delivers low cost and accelerated innovation to more than 10,000 customers worldwide.
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