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Mike Waas

Mike Waas is the founder and CEO of Datometry, a SaaS database virtualization platform enabling existing applications to run natively on modern cloud data management systems without being rewritten. He has held senior engineering positions at Microsoft, Amazon, EMC, and Pivotal and is the architect of Greenplum’s ORCA query optimizer. He has 40+ scientific peer-reviewed publications and holds 20+ patents.

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How to Modernize a Data Warehouse in Months, Not Years

Modernizing a data warehouse ranks among the worst imaginable tasks for IT. The end result is immensely desirable. The benefits of moving from an on-premises to a cloud data warehouse are well-documented. But database migrations require huge efforts and the stakes are high. What makes it so difficult? All applications, including ETL, BI, analytics and […]

Feb 17, 2023 · 3 min

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Database Virtualization: Breaking Vendor Lock-In

Every enterprise is battling vendor lock-in—constantly. Ask any IT leader about what keeps them up at night and vendor lock-in is certainly near, if not at, the top of the list. And while network, storage and compute have long been democratized by virtualization, one discipline has held out as the last bastion of vendor lock-in: […]

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