About Barry Zane
Barry has 32 years of product development experience, principally focused on large distributed and parallel software and hardware systems. He has led the development teams for several products from inception to successful customer and market segment acceptance.

Prior to joining the ParAccel project, Barry served, since its inception in 2000, as Vice President of Architecture for tera-scale database appliance vendor Netezza Corp. He was responsible for guiding all aspects of software architecture and implementation, from initial prototypes through volume shipments to leading Telecommunications, Retail and Internet customers.

Prior to Netezza, Barry was CTO at Applix Inc., which he joined shortly after it was founded in 1983. He held several key development positions there before being named CTO in 1991. Barry was responsible for the development of Applixware, he participated in the acquisition of two companies and was part of the senior management team that led Applix to a successful initial public offering (IPO) in 1994. Previously, Barry held development and management positions at Prime Computer since 1978.

Barry received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University.

About ParAccel
ParAccel™, Inc. provides cost-effective DBMS for all forms of analytic processing—from traditional data warehousing (DW) and analytic applications to operational BI and reporting. The ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB) combines patent-pending innovations with a columnar, compressed, massively parallel, memory-biased architecture to yield significant gains in both performance and price-performance.

Product Offerings
ParAccel offers the ParAccel Analytic Database as enterprise software or as an appliance on standard
hardware from all major vendors. Installed and running in a day, PADB can be implemented stand-
alone or in a SAN-attached environment. ParAccel offers several appliances including the ParAccel Analytic Appliance (PAA) and the Scalable Analytic Appliance (SAA).

• The ParAccel Analytic Appliance (PAA) is a software appliance created for simple installation
  and configuration of the ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB) on commodity hardware. The
  PAA is also available as a packaged appliance on commodity hardware in ultra performance
  (with Fusion-io solid-state storage) or standard configurations.
  
• The SAA, powered by ParAccel and EMC, is a jointly integrated and differentiated solution
  that includes the ParAccel Analytic Database and CLARiiON storage; the EMC Navisphere
  Management Suite is optional. It provides the power and simplicity of an appliance with the
  availability and manageability of an enterprise solution.
  

Agenda
Technology overview, product line and roadmap, price-performance with commodity hardware.

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