Product News

The Infobright Optimizer Extends its Reach!

At Infobright, we’re very excited about the new release of both our community open source and commercial enterprise products, with release candidates available now for ICE and IEE. Infobright 3.2 builds on the expanded depth of query functionality introduced in version 3.1, where we delivered over 120 additional SQL functions fully optimized in Infobright’s high
performance Knowledge Grid.

Infobright 3.1, released in March, delivered up to a 10X performance boost for complex queries using our new optimized SQL functions. Version 3.2 further advances the breadth of query support where customers will experience further increases in performance. Extending the query coverage in
the Knowledge Grid means more queries run natively thru the Infobright Optimizer without any query restructuring–resulting in effortless performance.

Infobright beta users have seen significant performance increases with our 3.2 release for queries now going through the Infobright Optimizer. For example, queries that previously ran in hours are now taking seconds, and queries that previously ran in 20 minutes are being returned in less than a
second. This reflects the huge benefit achieved by Infobright’s query optimizer using rough set algorithms.

Infobright 3.2 expands the support for SQL functions allowing complex expressions to execute within the Infobright Optimizer. Support for complex expressions have been implemented on the SELECT list with GROUP BY, and the ORDER BY, UNION, HAVING, WHERE, DISTINCT, LIMIT, IN, and OFFSET clauses, and across a broader range of sub-queries.

Infobright now includes support for Windows Server 2003/2008 for both our Infobright Enterprise and Community Editions. New install packages have been introduced to improve the user experience, facilitate ease-of-install and configuration. The install packages automatically detect upgrade versus new installs, updating the software seamlessly while preserving data and
configuration settings.

More information is available at www.infobright.org

New to the Infobright team

Bob Zurek joins Infobright - CTO, VP Product Management. Bob has joined the company's executive team as chief technology officer and vice president, product management. He will also be responsible for client services including sales engineering and implementation services. Bob has over 25 years of proven success in software development, technology research, and product management, along with deep expertise in database management systems, business intelligence (BI), and open source technologies. read more below...

Callum Lavelle joins Infobright as the EMEA Country Manager, and is opening the first European office for Infobright, based in the UK. Callum will be working closely with Infobright’s customers and partners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and is responsible for expanding the company’s presence in these regions. Callum is a very talented sales executive with experience at both emerging companies and large multi-nationals including Hitachi Data Systems, Onaro and Highground Systems. He can be reached at: callum.lavelle@infobright.com C: +44 (0)7900 404561

What's New at Infobright

• Partner Program Growing

We are pleased to welcome our 39th partner to the program, Totalindo in Indonesia. We now have partners on all continents (except Antartica).

• Many New Customers

We now have over 70 enterprise customers across the world. They are from many industries, with the largest concentration in online analytics (online marketing/advertising, social networks, online retail etc.), telecommunications and financial services. You can read about some of them here and here.

• Growing Open Source Community

ICE has been downloaded over 10,000 times since it was first released last year. We are also very pleased to have worked with Pentaho and Jaspersoft to offer integrated, open source virtual machines available for download on Infobright.org. We will soon have VM images available for Talend and BIRT/Actuate. Try them out!

• Industry Recognition

We have received excellent press and analyst coverage in the market in 2009. Infobright was named a "Cool Vendor in Data Management and Integration" by Gartner, and a "MySQL Partner of the Year" at the annual MySQL User Conference. Our 3.1 product announcement garnered over 25 feature articles in the press in April.

• New Infobright Offices

Infobright is pleased to announce the opening of our Chicago office at: 5157 Main St. Suite 202 Downers Grove, Il. T: 630 297 4081

We have also opened a UK office at: Victoria House Suite D, 38 Victoria Avenue, Harrogate, United Kingdom. T: +44 (0)1423 520116

Upcoming Webinar
Open Sesame:
The Gaining Acceptance of Open Source

A Webinar with Dr. Claudia Imhoff.

Date: August 6, 2009
Time: 9 am PT, 12 pm ET,18:00 CET
Location: online
Duration: 1 hour

Sponsered by Infobright and Talend.

To register for the webinar: click here.

To download the white paper: click here.

Letter from Bob:

What a great time to be joining Infobright. Here it is early summer and fortunately the weather has been terrific every time I’ve made the trip to our offices in Toronto, which is about every other week. However, I’m also very curious about the winter up here. Let me tell you, I’ve heard the stories from my colleagues here in Toronto. Seeing I live in the Boston metro area, I suspect and hope my New England roots have somehow prepared me for the cold weather of Toronto in the winter.

Since joining Infobright in early June of this year, I’ve been drinking from the proverbial fire-hose and frankly, it has been a wonderful and very enlightening experience that has me very excited about being part of this great team and company. As I see it, the world is generating and consuming more and more data every day. With this massive amount of data comes a requirement to deploy a data warehouse or mart that can rapidly digest and deliver key nuggets of data that tell a story or answer a question for a business.

To respond to these requirements, our customers have turned to the unique attributes of our columnar oriented database to achieve success. Our partners and customers are innovators who provide us the critical and important feedback about our products as they go from development into test and then into full production. Critical feedback and feature requests are very important to our team, keep them coming thru direct contact with our team and our great forums.

I tell my teams that we are building products with the help of our partners, customers and community participants. Without them, we obviously wouldn’t have a product or business. In fact, our newest release, version 3.2 has been significantly enhanced with new functionality thanks to the feedback from our partners, customers and community members. While, I’m not quite ready to tell the story about our next major release, I can tell you that over the next several months our whole product team will be working very hard to develop and deliver even more exciting new features as we embark on our mission to build the worlds best open source columnar database system.  Finally, I’m very excited to be working with some of the most innovative open source companies on this planet. These open source innovators include our partners Pentaho, Jaspersoft, Sun/MySQL, Talend and Actuate (the people behind BIRT) to name a few. I’ve had the pleasure of working with executives from these companies for many years and before joining Infobright, so I was very excited to learn about the details of our success with these leaders.

Have a great rest of the summer and please, don’t ever hesitate to contact me if I or anyone on our team can be of any assistance to you. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks for your time.

Bob Zurek

bob.zurek@infobright.com

p. 617-331-8289

Infobright Inc.
47 Colborne Street, Suite 403, Toronto, ON M5E 1P8, Tel. 416 596 2483
www.infobright.com

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