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Andrew Palmer (technologist)
Andrew Palmer (born 17 June 1966) is an American technologist, Internet entrepreneur, and investor. Biography Andrew Palmer is CEO and co-founder of the data analytics company Tamr and founder of Koa Labs, a seed fund for first-time entrepreneurs. Previously he was co-founder of database software company Vertica with computer scientist Michael Stonebraker. Vertica was successfully acquired by Hewlett-Packard in March 2011. Earlier in his career he served as Global Head of Software and Data Engineering at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) and as a member of the start-up team and Chief Information and Administrative Officer at Infinity Pharmaceuticals. Additionally, he has held positions at Bowstreet, pcOrder.com, and Trilogy. He earned undergraduate degrees in English, history and computer science from Bowdoin College, and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. In 2023 Palmer co-authored the book ''Live for A Living'' with Paula Caligiuri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vertica
Vertica Systems is an analytic database management software company. Vertica was founded in 2005 by the database researcher Michael Stonebraker, with Andrew Palmer as the founding CEO. Ralph Breslauer and Christopher P. Lynch served as later CEOs. Lynch joined as chairman and CEO in 2010 and was responsible for Vertica's acquisition by Hewlett Packard in March 2011. The acquisition expanded the HP Software portfolio for enterprise companies and the public sector group. As part of the merger of Micro Focus and the Software division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Vertica joined Micro Focus in September, 2017. Products The column-oriented Vertica Analytics Platform was designed to manage large, fast-growing volumes of data and with fast query performance for data warehouses and other query-intensive applications. The product claims to greatly improve query performance over traditional relational database systems, and to provide high availability and exabyte scalability on co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |