Ralph Breslauer, CEO of Database Analytics Leader Vertica, Joins Influential Financial...

Ralph Breslauer, CEO of Database Analytics Leader Vertica, Joins Influential
Financial Experts at Venture Summit East in Boston

Conference touted as the place "Where the Big Money Meets the Big Ideas"

BILLERICA, Mass., May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

Who: Ralph Breslauer, CEO of Vertica, a leading database analytics company,
brings more than 20 years of successful business development and software
sales growth experience to Vertica's strong leadership team. Breslauer drives
Vertica's growth, research and development, sales, customer adoption and
strategic partnerships to ensure companies of every size can capitalize on the
substantial benefits of column-oriented databases. He works with co-founders
Mike Stonebraker and Andy Palmer as well as chairman of the board Jerry Held
to continue Vertica's development as the market innovator for high-performance
analytic database management systems that run on industry-standard hardware.

What: Presented by AlwaysOn, JPMorgan and Forbes.com, Venture Summit East is
a two-day gathering of senior high-tech and digital media execs that explores
the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting today's
business ecosystem. The speaker list includes recognized venture capital and
private equity leaders, as well as accomplished CEOs from New England.

Details: Friday, May 22, 2009 at 10:15am - Salon II - "Applying Wisdom from
the Last Downturn to the Recession of 2009"

Seasoned innovation-economy veterans describe how to survive the 2009 downturn
-- Moderator: Jeff Leopold, Managing Director, Technology &
Communications, Cook Associates
-- Ralph Breslauer, CEO, Vertica
-- Jaime Ellertson, CEO, Gomez
-- Gary Greenfield, CEO, Avid
-- Steve Papa, CEO, Endeca
-- Alan Trefler, CEO, Pegasystems

-- Mark Cattini, President, Pitney Bowes Markets Services & Former
CEO, MapInfo

When: May 20-22, 2009

Where: The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Boston

About Vertica
Vertica Systems is the market innovator for high-performance analytic database
management systems that run on industry-standard hardware. Co-founded by
database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica has developed
column-oriented analytic database technology with an MPP architecture that
lets companies of any size store and query very large databases orders of
magnitude faster and more affordably than other solutions. The Vertica
Analytic Database is available as software only, as a hardware based
appliance, as a virtual appliance on VMware or online as a cloud computing
solution. The technology's unmatched speed, scalability, flexibility and ease
of use helps customers like JP Morgan Chase, Verizon, Mozilla, Comcast,
Level(3) Communications and Vonage capitalize on business opportunities in
real time. Vertica is headquartered in Billerica, Mass. For more information,
visit the company's Web site at http://www.vertica.com.

SOURCE Vertica

Ed Marshall of Beaupre & Co. Public Relations for Vertica, +1-603-559-5816,
emarshall@beaupre.com