Dear HAWQs, I thought it would be fun to get to know some of the other people in the community.
My name is Greg Chase and I run community development for Pivotal for big data open source communities that Pivotal contributes to. Some of you may have seen my frequent emails about virtual events I help organize for user and contributor education. Not so long ago, I was in charge of product marketing for an in-memory data warehouse named after a Hawaiian town from a three-letter acronymed German Company. We treated Hadoop as an external table, and returning results from these queries was both slow and brittle due to the network transfer rates. So I have a special appreciation of the innovation that has gone into creating Hadoop-native HAWQ out of PostgreSQL and Greenplum. These days I'm much more of a marketer than a coder, but I still love hearing about the kinds of projects that HAWQ users are involved in. I know we'd all love to hear more about everyone else's projects, and how you became a HAWQ user. So please introduce yourselves! -- Greg Chase Global Head, Big Data Communities http://www.pivotal.io/big-data Pivotal Software http://www.pivotal.io/ 650-215-0477 @GregChase Blog: http://geekmarketing.biz/
