Posted on Tue, May 29, 2012
HP Veteran, Leon de Werker named EMEA VP at NewSQL Database Leader
Amsterdam, The Netherlands and San Francisco, Calif. – May 30, 2012 – Clustrix, the leader in NewSQL transactional databases for Big Data applications, announced today further EMEA expansion, and that it has named HP Veteran Leon de Werker, Vice President, EMEA. Clustrix is seeing fast growth in the EMEA with customers such as Massive Media and Photobox among others in the region. De Werker brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic technology sales and management and will oversee all of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa territories for Clustrix and its game-changing NewSQL distributed database solution. De Werker is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
“Clustrix is proud to call several top international Internet and web companies as successful customers. We are seeing increasing demand in EMEA for a new generation of radically simple and scalable SQL databases for Big Data applications as an alternative to costly legacy or highly customized solutions,” said Robin Purohit, CEO at Clustrix. “Leon has a proven track record in strategic and international sales and management for leading global companies. He has the experience and energy to drive Clustrix’s growth throughout EMEA.”
Prior to Clustrix, De Werker was at HP, where he was most recently Director of Sales and Services in The Netherlands. Prior to HP, De Werker held strategic sales positions for Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP during De Werker’s tenure), BMC Software and Dow Jones.
“The explosion of new transactional applications built on Big Data brings incredible innovation to both web and traditional enterprises, but they demand modern, scale-out solutions like the Clustrix NewSQL distributed database,” said De Werker. “Clustrix is a true pioneer, and I am honored and excited to join their talented team to drive the growth of Clustrix’s ecosystem of customers and partners.
The Clustrix NewSQL Distributed Database
According to IDC, the Big Data market will soar to $16.9 billion by 2015 from $3.2 billion in 2010 with an 80% growth rate in unstructured data. More than 100 terabytes of data is uploaded daily to Facebook alone. Big Data demands a modern scale-out relational database that provides a scalable foundation for growth. With the Clustrix NewSQL database, any company can scale incrementally and infinitely to unlimited users, transactions and data for web, mobile, social, and real-time enterprise applications.
Clustrix is a modern, SQL relational database that delivers real-time, high integrity transactions at high concurrency without costly and complex scale-up or predatory licensing from legacy vendors. Clustrix is a fault tolerant solution that is proven in environments worldwide.
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the leader in NewSQL distributed databases for transactional big data applications. Clustrix provides a radically simple NewSQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, eliminates database sharding and automates fault tolerance. Customers include Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, and Massive Media.
Clustrix is located in San Francisco, California, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It was founded and is led by executives from companies such as Isilon, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive, and VERITAS, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix.
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Posted on Tue, Mar 06, 2012
Global Tech Sales Veteran Judi Feeley Joins the Clustrix Team
San Francisco, Calif. – March 6, 2012 – Clustrix announced today the appointment of Judi Feeley as vice president of sales. Feeley joined Clustrix from Blue Coat Systems where she led the Strategic Accounts sales organization as vice president of sales. This new appointment will allow Clustrix to capitalize on the growing global opportunities for NewSQL in both the web and enterprise segments.
A global executive with more than 25 years of successful experience accelerating the revenue growth of technology organizations, Feeley worked for companies such as SalesForce.com, VERITAS Software (later Symantec), NetFrame Systems and HP. Her accomplishments include building a global accounts organization and growing product and support revenue by more than 50 percent in the UK and France at VERITAS Software, where she was a managing director.
“It is a perfect time to accelerate our business and Judi’s international web and enterprise experience makes her a great addition to our growing team,” said Robin Purohit, Clustrix president and CEO. “Our current customers are building new transactional applications in hot market segments such as social networking, global e-commerce, SaaS and healthcare, and they grow fast, reaching millions of users almost overnight. The Clustrix product provides them both simplicity and scale-out capabilities without giving up the richness of SQL, so they can focus on growing their business. We look forward to Judi's contribution in building a world-class global sales team.”
“When I first talked to Clustrix, I was impressed with their fundamental invention of a true, scale-out relational database to support big-data applications. Even more, I was impressed with the radical simplicity of the Clustrix database appliance,” said Judi Feeley. “I have heard it from Clustrix customers already: the challenge and complexity of scaling or sharding the database are gone, and now the focus can shift completely to application innovation. I believe Clustrix is in the right place at the right time, and I am looking forward to helping them accelerate the growth of the business.”
Last month, Clustrix announced the availability of the Clustrix Development Kit as a free download of a software-only environment that simulates the hardware components of the Clustrix database appliance.
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the leader in NewSQL databases for transactional big-data applications. The company's initial offering is a radically simple database appliance that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, eliminates database sharding and automates fault tolerance.
Clustrix is located in San Francisco, California, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It is founded and led by successful serial entrepreneurs and executives from companies such as Isilon, Rackspace, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive, and VERITAS, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix.
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Georgiana Comsa
Silicon Valley PR
(408) 435-1500
georgiana@siliconvalleypr.com
Posted on Wed, Feb 08, 2012
Massive Media, 451 Research, and Clustrix to Cover Database Scaling Challenges and Real-World Deployments
San Francisco, Calif. – February 8, 2012 – Clustrix announced today that its first webinar on scaling big database applications with its NewSQL database solution will take place on February 15, 2012, at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. Those interested in the webinar can register at http://www.brighttalk.com/channel/7485.
The webinar will include a customer guest, Massive Media, that has deployed the Clustrix distributed relational database system to build and grow Twoo, a social networking site, to more than four million users in only six months without sharding the application and without any downtime. Other webinar participants include Matt Aslett, research manager, data management and analytics at 451 Research; Robin Purohit, Clustrix president and CEO; and Aaron Passey, Clustrix CTO.
Clustrix just announced the availability of the Clustrix Development Kit as a free download of a software-only environment that simulates the hardware components of the Clustrix database appliance, allowing users to try the industry’s first distributed relational database system that scales to an unlimited number of users, transactions or data.
Clustrix reinvented the relational database from the ground up to support growing big-data applications that “break” MySQL and need to scale easily, with no limits and without giving up database availability and performance.
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the leader in NewSQL databases for transactional big-data applications. The company's initial offering is a radically simple database appliance that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, eliminates database sharding and automates fault tolerance.
Clustrix is located in San Francisco, California, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It is founded and led by successful serial entrepreneurs and executives from companies such as Isilon, Rackspace, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive, and VERITAS, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix.
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Agency Contact:
Georgiana Comsa
Silicon Valley PR
(408) 435-1500
georgiana@siliconvalleypr.com
Posted on Tue, Feb 07, 2012
Clustrix NewSQL Development Kit Available as a Free Trial
San Francisco, Calif. – February 7, 2012 – Clustrix announced today that Massive Media used the Clustrix distributed relational database system to build and grow Twoo, a social networking site, to more than four million users in only six months without sharding the application and without any downtime. Clustrix also announced the availability of the Clustrix Development Kit as a free download of a software-only environment that simulates the hardware components of the Clustrix database appliance, allowing users to try the industry’s first distributed relational database system that scales to an unlimited number of users, transactions or data.
Clustrix reinvented the relational database from the ground up to support growing big-data applications that “break” MySQL and need to scale easily, with no limits and without giving up database availability and performance. With Clustrix, today’s web environments avoid the effort and expense of database sharding and benefit from a MySQL-compatible system that installs and expands in minutes, providing high scale-out transactional performance.
“Pre-Clustrix, we spent a lot of time on optimizing for performance and scale. Now we can spend those resources better,” said Lorenz Bogaert, co-founder and CEO of Massive Media. “It does not make sense to build a new site using the old system of sharding MySQL.”
"We are seeing increased interest in NewSQL database technologies that enable users to scale their databases without having to resort to complex manual sharding," said Matt Aslett, research manager, data management and analytics at 451 Research. "Clustrix's combination of an SSD-based appliance and MySQL compatibility is a compelling alternative for enterprises struggling to manage with sharding MySQL."
“Massive Media is a great example of the radical simplicity and scalability of our NewSQL database solution that entirely eliminates the need for sharding,” said Robin Purohit, president and CEO of Clustrix. “Now that our customers have proven how easy it is to scale their databases with Clustrix, we are ready to scale our business and will be highlighting the growing list of customer successes in the months ahead.”
Clustrix continues to expand both its customer base and executive team; the company recently announced the appointment of Robin Purohit as president and CEO and Mark Sarbiewski as chief marketing officer, both former HP executives.
Developers and database professionals who need a better and more cost-effective way to scale their databases can explore functionality, develop apps and ensure compatibility of the Clustrix solution with their existing big-data environments by downloading the Development Kit at http://info.clustrix.com/devkit.
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the leader in NewSQL databases for transactional big-data applications. The company's initial offering is a radically simple database appliance that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, eliminates database sharding and automates fault tolerance.
Clustrix is located in San Francisco, California, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It is founded and led by successful serial entrepreneurs and executives from companies such as Isilon, Rackspace, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive, and VERITAS, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), an ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix.
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Georgiana Comsa
Silicon Valley PR
(408) 435-1500
georgiana@siliconvalleypr.com
Posted on Wed, Jan 18, 2012
Company Moves to Larger Headquarters in San Francisco
San Francisco, Calif. – January 18, 2012 – Clustrix announced today that Mark Sarbiewski has joined the company as chief marketing officer. Sarbiewski joined Clustrix from HP, where he was vice president of product marketing for HP Software. As part of its 2012 expansion plans, Clustrix also announced its move, as of this month, to the new, more spacious headquarters at 201 Mission St., Suite 800, in San Francisco.
Sarbiewski’s appointment follows the recent appointment of Robin Purohit, a former top executive at HP and Symantec, as president and CEO. “I am pleased to announce Mark’s addition to our team,” said Robin Purohit. “He brings both large-company and startup experience to Clustrix, and his expertise with both inbound and outbound marketing, as well as category development will be very important for us in this growth phase.”
Sarbiewski joined HP through the acquisition of Mercury in 2006. Prior to Mercury, he was vice president of marketing for InterTrust Technologies Corporation, where he led all key marketing activities. Before InterTrust, Sarbiewski was a principal consultant for five years with Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd & McGrath, and spent four years at IBM as an application software engineer.
“I have been watching Clustrix for a while,” said Sarbiewski. “I was impressed with the technology, expertise and success of the serial entrepreneurs on the team, as well as the marquee customers using the Clustrix solution in production today. It is well-known that MySQL doesn't scale, and sharding is painful, expensive, and risky. Clustrix offers its customers the scale promise of NoSQL without giving up the richness of SQL. Our database solution allows them to scale to unlimited users, transactions, and data, while eliminating the need for sharding."
About Clustrix
Clustrix is the leader in NewSQL databases for transactional big-data applications. The company's initial offering is a radically simple database appliance that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, eliminates database sharding and automates fault tolerance.
Clustrix is located in San Francisco, California, with branch offices in Seattle and London. It is founded and led by successful serial entrepreneurs and executives from companies such as Isilon, Rackspace, AOL, HP, Mercury Interactive, and VERITAS, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix.
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Georgiana Comsa
Silicon Valley PR
(408) 435-1500
georgiana@siliconvalleypr.com
Posted on Tue, Dec 13, 2011
Clustrix Named Red Herring Global 100 Award Winner
San Francisco, Calif. – December 13, 2011 – Clustrix announced today that it has been selected as a winner of the Red Herring Global 100 award, honoring leading private companies from North America, Europe, and Asia. Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment of potential was complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers.
“Choosing the best out of the previous two years was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, chairman of Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed down our list from 1,100 potential companies to 100 winners. It was an extremely difficult process. Clustrix should be extremely proud of its achievement; the competition for the Top 100 was fierce. The Top 100 Global are truly the best of the best.”
Red Herring’s Global 100 list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Google, Skype, Baidu, Salesforce.com, YouTube, eBay and many others would change the way we live and work.
About Clustrix
Clustrix has developed a database appliance that solves database scalability challenges for the newSQL market, delivering the unlimited scale possibilities of NoSQL without sacrificing the richness of SQL, at the highest performance.
Clustrix is located in San Francisco, California, with branch offices in Seattle and London. The company is founded and led by successful serial entrepreneurs and executives from companies such as Isilon, Rackspace, AOL, HP, and VERITAS, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), and ATAVentures.To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix.
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Georgiana Comsa
Silicon Valley PR
(408) 435-1500
georgiana@siliconvalleypr.com
Posted on Tue, Oct 25, 2011
Largest Independent MySQL Services Vendor Confirms Performance and Scale Benefits of the Clustrix Parallel Distributed Database Architecture
PERCONA LIVE MYSQL CONFERENCE
San Francisco, Calif. – October 25, 2011 – Clustrix announced the results of a Percona head-to-head evaluation of Clustrix and MySQL systems, showing the high scalability and sustained performance of Clustrix database appliances compared to MySQL. The tests showed once more what Clustrix users have already been experiencing in web environments: with the Clustrix systems, they do not have to give up transactions or ACID properties, relational semantics, or any of the rich SQL features to meet the performance and scale demands of rapidly growing high-traffic Internet applications. Full tests and findings can be downloaded at http://bit.ly/tUKlkz.
Percona ran a Percona-written, TPCC benchmark against Percona's MySQL Server on an Intel- SSD based machine, MySQL on a Fusion-io-based machine, and different sizes of Clustrix database appliances based on a parallel distributed database architecture. On top of the high performance and scalability delivered by the Clustrix system, it also provides built-in fault tolerance and no single point of failure. The MySQL systems tested either have a single Fusion-io card or SSD drives in a RAID 0 configuration. If any component - such as drive, motherboard, or memory - fails, the entire database will fail.
The first conclusion that Percona noted was that the Clustrix database really was indeed scalable. As a website gets more and more users, concurrency goes up and aggregate performance throughput requirements increase while users expect the same or better response time.
According to Percona, the experts in MySQL performance, “For highly concurrent workloads, Clustrix provides great performance, and if you need better throughput, it scales just by adding more nodes."
“The most interesting conclusion in my opinion is the fact that transactional, relational, full-featured SQL can scale and Clustrix has proved it in this testing and at multiple production customer deployments around the world,” said Aaron Passey, Clustrix CTO, who recently wrote a blog post describing the tests and results. “The test showed a complicated workload with multi-statement transactions, aggregates, foreign key constraints, and a large percentage of writes, which are what the NoSQL movement has proclaimed as too difficult to scale. Clustrix has solved this problem; once more, we deliver the unlimited scale promised by NoSQL without giving up the features of SQL, at unmatched performance.”
About Clustrix
Clustrix has developed a database appliance that solves database scalability challenges for the NewSQL market, delivering the unlimited scale possibilities of NoSQL without sacrificing the richness of SQL, at the highest performance.
Clustrix is located in San Francisco, California, with branch offices in Seattle and London. The company is founded and led by successful serial entrepreneurs and executives from companies such as Isilon, Rackspace, AOL, HP, and VERITAS, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), and ATAVentures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix.
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Georgiana Comsa
Silicon Valley PR
(408) 435-1500
georgiana@siliconvalleypr.com
Posted on Tue, Oct 18, 2011
Successful Industry Veteran to Lead Venture-Backed Big Data Company in Its Next Growth Phase
San Francisco, Calif. – October 18, 2011 – Clustrix announced today the appointment of Robin Purohit as President and CEO. A successful executive with an impressive track record, Purohit has led more than 20 acquisitions and has been an executive leader for three successful exits of Mercury to HP (2007), VERITAS to Symantec (2005), and CANSTAR Communications to HP (1994). Purohit succeeds Paul Mikesell, co-founder of Clustrix, who will serve as vice president of strategy and technology.
Purohit came to Clustrix from HP, where he was a vice president and general manager of HP's three-billion-dollar portfolio of IT management, information management, and application security products. He joined HP through the Mercury Interactive acquisition; at Mercury, he was vice president of product management and marketing. Prior to that, Purohit was a vice president of product management and marketing at VERITAS Software, where he led a two-billion-dollar product line for storage software, backup and recovery, cluster computing, and utility computing.
“We are pleased to have Robin join the Clustrix team to help accelerate corporate growth for one of our portfolio companies,” said Greg McAdoo of Sequoia Capital, a Clustrix investor. “His remarkable management experience and industry insight in the enterprise and service provider markets make him the perfect leader to guide Clustrix through its next expansion phase.”
“I am thrilled to be here at Clustrix today,” said Robin Purohit. “Clustrix has world-class investors, an amazing parallel database architecture that is customer proven, and a team with a track record of creating new markets. We have reinvented the relational database from the ground up to support the most demanding ‘big data’ Internet applications with transactional workloads. Our customers realize significant cost and time savings with our combination of simplicity, unmatched performance, scalability, and MySQL compatibility.”
About Clustrix
Clustrix has developed a database appliance that solves database scalability challenges for the NewSQL market, delivering the unlimited scale possibilities of NoSQL without sacrificing the richness of SQL, at the highest performance.
Clustrix is located in San Francisco, California, with branch offices in Seattle and London. The company is founded and led by successful serial entrepreneurs and executives from companies such as Isilon, Rackspace, AOL, HP, and VERITAS, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), and ATAVentures.To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com, www.facebook.com/clustrix or www.twitter.com/clustrix.
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Agency Contact:
Georgiana Comsa
Silicon Valley PR
(408) 435-1500
georgiana@siliconvalleypr.com
Posted on Tue, Oct 11, 2011
Company to Exhibit Its Database Appliances at Both Percona Live Conference and Storage Networking World
San Francisco, Calif. – October 11, 2011 – Clustrix announced today that Paul Mikesell, co-founder of Clustrix, and Aaron Passey, CTO of Clustrix, will deliver the opening keynote at the Percona Live MySQL Conference in London. The keynote will take place on October 25 at 9:30 a.m. local time. The company will also exhibit its database appliances at booth spots 3 and 4, showing how to get the unlimited scale promised by NoSQL without sacrificing the richness of SQL at the highest industry performance.
In a new test, Clustrix has collaborated with Percona to characterize the performance of the Clustrix and MySQL products. Percona compared several different SSD-based technologies running both Clustrix and Percona Server with XtraDB. Percona was able to test different workloads at different concurrencies on a variety of different platforms to create a landscape of the available high-performance options in the MySQL environment. During their keynote titled “Characterizing Performance,” Mikesell and Passey will cover the tests and the results.
Clustrix is also exhibiting its database appliances this week at SNW in Orlando, Fla. at booth 712.
About Clustrix
Clustrix has built a NewSQL database with no limits. Our appliances have no limits to database size, no limits to table size, no limits to query complexity, and no limits to performance. With Clustrix you get dynamic online scaling, seamless fault tolerance, full relational and transactional capabilities. All in a single instance database that is a drop-in replacement for your MySQL infrastructure.
Clustrix headquarters are located in San Francisco, California with branch offices in Seattle and London. The company is privately held, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com.
Posted on Fri, Aug 19, 2011
Photobox focuses on growth opportunities following Clustrix adoption
San Francisco, Calif. – August 19, 2011 – Matt Aslett, Senior Analyst of The 451 Group, spoke with one of Clustrix’s customers, Photobox, to discuss their deployment of the NewSQL Database.
Having grown its use of MySQL to manage with the increased adoption of its photo-printing services, Photobox realized that it was about to hit a wall and turned to Clustrix.
Photobox first showed interest in Clustrix because of its ability to offer, “both scalability and durability as well as be compatible with MySQL applications.” In mid-December of 2009 the Clustrix database appliance was installed, giving Photobox additional capacity for the peak demand season. As a result, they found that Clustrix had "proved its claim that the appliance could be deployed to run existing MySQL applications unchanged, and in conjunction with an existing MySQL deployment to ease migration."
Photobox created a 10-point checklist that Clustrix would have to pass in order to fully migrate to the new database. They passed all of the tests with flying colors. Photobox fully deployed Clustrix in the Spring of 2010, “beginning the process of migrating its MySQL deployments to Clustrix by taking advantage of its ability to replicate to and from MySQL by adopting it first as a slave to the MySQL master, and then eventually promoting Clustrix instances to perform as both master and slave.” By adding Clustrix to their existing system, Photobox "is now in a position to continue its growth without having to worry each year about its ability to meet."
Click here to view the report on The 451 Group site or click here to view the PDF file.
About Clustrix
Clustrix has built a NewSQL database with no limits. Our appliances have no limits to database size, no limits to table size, no limits to query complexity, and no limits to performance. With Clustrix you get dynamic online scaling, seamless fault tolerance, full relational and transactional capabilities. All in a single instance database that is a drop-in replacement for your MySQL infrastructure.
Clustrix headquarters are located in San Francisco, California with branch offices in Seattle and London. The company is privately held, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), and ATA Ventures. To learn more about Clustrix, visit www.clustrix.com.