Planet OmniTI ~ News and Blog Posts http://omniti.com/thinks en-us Planet OmniTI Appoints Wayne Moore Vice President of Product http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/omniti-appoints-wayne-moore-vice-president-of-product http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/omniti-appoints-wayne-moore-vice-president-of-product Wayne Moore Ph.D. has been appointed vice president of product. Moore will be serving as a senior management team member for both OmniTI and Circonus, OmniTI’s spinoff company, a provider of performance monitoring solutions. Wayne has a unique blend of business and technical savvy, and will strategically support marketing, sales, strategic and business development activities for both companies.

Moore has more than 30 years of experience in a variety of strategic marketing and business roles, most recently as the founder, technical leader and CEO of Microcosm, Inc., a successful engineering instrumentation development company. Prior to Microcosm, Moore was a founding member of three successful engineering start-up companies. Wayne earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University and his Masters and Ph.D. in Engineering from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is an adjunct instructor of Marketing, Strategy and Operations at the Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business.

According to Theo Schlossnagle, OmniTI’s founder and CEO, “Wayne’s track record of success speaks for itself, and we're thrilled to have such a great leader and executive on our team. Wayne brings his market knowledge, experience and enthusiasm to both OmniTI and Circonus. We look to him to develop an aggressive marketing plan that will create new opportunities in new markets for our products and services. Wayne will add tremendous value to our companies through his strong business and leadership experience.”

“Both OmniTI and Circonus are growing at a tremendous pace, and they are well known in the industry for driving innovation,” said Wayne Moore, vice president of product at OmniTI/Circonus.

I am looking forward to developing and capturing new market opportunities, as well as defining our market strategy and ongoing roadmap. It’s a great opportunity to expand on the already impressive service offerings and product lines.

~ Wayne Moore, Ph.D.

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 14:37:15 GMT OmniTI's Treat and Sorber To Speak at PGCon http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/pg-con-2012 http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/pg-con-2012 PGCon is the place to meet, learn valuable insights and generally chat about the work being done with PostgreSQL, and it's shaping up to be the Postgres conference of the year. OmniTI is proud to be involved again this year, with perennial speaker Robert Treat doing two presentations, and this year he will be joined by Phillip Sorber, a Postgres contributor and DBA at OmniTI.

Treat will co-present a tutorial, Mastering PostgreSQL Administration, with Bruce Momjian, co-founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. In this two-part course, attendees will learn the essential details of PostgreSQL configuration, security, maintenance, monitoring, tuning, backups and recovery. The course is designed for people with experience in database administration, but who are new to the Postgres platform.

In addition, attendees will hear Treat's Big Bad "Upgraded" PostgreSQL talk, covering several tools and tactics used at OmnITI to bring a large pg_upgrade project to completion, including all the different ways that things went wrong. Treat will discuss some of the changes seen after the upgrade, and improvements made using new, 9.1 features. According to Treat,

If you are using Postgres for mission-critical applications, you'll enjoy this look inside the operations of a complex system that lives on the edge.

OmniTI's Phillip Sorber is presenting a tutorial playfully titled, "Getting Hot and Streamy with Postgres: Using Postgres' Built-in Replication Facilities." This will be an overview of Postgres' built-in replication system, from PITR to cascading replication, complete with demonstrations. More emphasis will be given to the more recent and interesting technologies, such as streaming replication and hot standby. Sorber said,

My goal is that someone attending this tutorial would be able to understand enough about how replication works in Postgres to implement and maintain it going forward,

For more information about the conference, see PGCon.org.

 

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 19:17:11 GMT OmniTI's Schlossnagle to Speak at #ChefConf 2012 http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/omnitis-schlossnagle-to-speak-at-chefcon-2012 http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/omnitis-schlossnagle-to-speak-at-chefcon-2012 OmniTI's CEO, Theo Schlossnagle, will once again hit the road to speak at a new, major conference on Cloud Infrastructure. He'll be in San Fransisco on May 16 at #ChefConf, the inaugural conference hosted by Opscode. It promises three days of demonstrations, interactive workshops and presentations designed to help users harness the power of cloud infrastructure automation for their business. Organizers describe this new conference as "a meeting of the minds shaping the future of cloud infrastructure automation."

Schlossnagle asks: How can monitoring embrace the future of infrastructure automation? In this session he'll review how the world of infrastructure management has evolved over the past five years, and how the cloud and SaaS have caused a strong migratory pattern to automated provisioning and configuration. But, monitoring itself has not made the move to accommodate these shifts; he'll share his thoughts on what this all means and where monitoring products need to go to support the future.

Circonus, OmniTI's sister company, is a conference sponsor. Please visit the Circonus booth (#12) to learn about how you can gain real-time visibility into your entire organization's operations with a single, easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use unified system.

For more information, please visit #ChefConf.

]]> Tue, 08 May 2012 19:19:29 GMT Denormalizing the real world to normalize your database http://philsorber.blogspot.com/2012/04/denormalizing-real-world-to-normalize.html http://philsorber.blogspot.com/2012/04/denormalizing-real-world-to-normalize.html Tue, 01 May 2012 01:21:56 GMT OmniPITR 0.6.0 http://www.depesz.com/2012/04/26/omnipitr-0-6-0/ http://www.depesz.com/2012/04/26/omnipitr-0-6-0/ Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:21:09 GMT pg_upgrade Gets The Job Done http://keithf4.com/big_pg_upgrade http://keithf4.com/big_pg_upgrade Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:50:58 GMT OmniOS http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omnios http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/omnios Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:04:01 GMT OmniTI Welcomes New Clients, US Airways and Lookbooks Media http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/omniti-welcomes-new-clients-us-airways-and-lookbooks-media- http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/omniti-welcomes-new-clients-us-airways-and-lookbooks-media- We're happy to extend a warm welcome new clients, US Airways and Lookbooks Media. We're looking forward to working with them and to a great relationship ongoing.

USAir, US Airways, along with US Airways Shuttle and US Airways Express, operates more than 3,000 flights per day and serves more than 200 communities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central and South America. OmniTI is providing support for their email infrastructure, allowing the company to seemlessly send millions of confirmation and notification emails to its customers.

Lookbooks Media, Inc. is an innovative technology company providing integrated digital marketing solutions to the world’s leading fashion, beauty, photography, design and fine art clients. OmniTI is helping them with their platform, which seamlessly incorporates digital marketing tools, sales management and portfolio management.

]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:56:52 GMT Let’s talk dirty http://www.depesz.com/2012/04/04/lets-talk-dirty/ http://www.depesz.com/2012/04/04/lets-talk-dirty/ Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:59:24 GMT OmniTI Debuts OmniOS, an Open Source Operating System for the Solaris Community http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/omniti-debuts-omnios-an-open-source-operating-system-for-the-solaris-community http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/omniti-debuts-omnios-an-open-source-operating-system-for-the-solaris-community Today at the DTrace Conference, OmniTI announced OmniOS, an open source operating system for application developers in the Solaris community looking for reliable, innovative, data-intensive application deployment.

OmniOS is a continuation of the OpenSolaris legacy and aims to address the longstanding issues that occurred when Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the operating system. OmniOS builds on Illumos to make a complete OS.

OmniOS provides users with a traditional, Solaris-like installable operating system with a minimal package set to ease regulatory compliance. It delivers a self-hosting environment with simplified processes for ongoing maintenance. Most importantly, it brings third-party software components up-to-date within OmniOS. Third-party software has been a problem with previous attempts to evolve OpenSolaris, as some have not been updated in a decade. It served as a key driver behind OmniTI’s interest to develop OmniOS.

According to Theo Schlossnagle, CEO of OmniTI,

Other attempts in the past to continue OpenSolaris resulted in excruciating work that would involve more than a week just to get the system up and running. With OmniOS, you can get it installed with a single command in 60 seconds.


Users can expect OmniOS to have a Solaris look and feel with an updated compiler tool chain (gcc 4.6.3), the latest OpenSSL (1.0.1) and a more consistent, dual instruction set support (x86 and x86-64). In addition, there are four key technologies that OmniTI included within OmniOS to bring significant business advantage to customers.

--Solaris containers: combination of system resource controls and the boundary separation provided by zones.

--Crossbow: provides the building blocks for network virtualization and resource control by virtualizing the stack and NIC around any service (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, etc.), protocol or container.

--ZFS file system: combined file system and logical volume manager with superior
data integrity protection and scalability.

--DTrace: provides increased visibility and aids in troubleshooting on any level of the application stack.

OmniOS is our vision of what OpenSolaris could have been had it remained in the open. It runs better, faster and has more innovations,” continued Schlossnagle. “OmniTI did not want to lose the benefits that OpenSolaris technologies brought to customers, so we decided to pursue the continuation of the OS on our own. We've been running OmniOS in our data centers for six months and have seen tremendous results. We’re excited to announce our news at the DTrace conference because of its importance and relevance to this community.


OmniTI is currently using OmniOS for OmniTI customer applications and is making it generally available to the Solaris community for free with the intention that it becomes a standard platform for open source development. OmniTI will offer support for OmniOS in the future. It can be downloaded immediately at omnios.omniti.com

 

]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:39:17 GMT Deploying Maximum HA Architecture with PostgreSQL http://denishjpatel.blogspot.com/2012/04/deploying-maximum-ha-architecture-with.html http://denishjpatel.blogspot.com/2012/04/deploying-maximum-ha-architecture-with.html Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:57:00 GMT Request for help with Python/Flask – Prośba o pomoc z Pythonem/Flaskiem http://www.depesz.com/2012/03/31/request-for-help-with-pythonflask-prosba-o-pomoc-z-pythonemflaskiem/ http://www.depesz.com/2012/03/31/request-for-help-with-pythonflask-prosba-o-pomoc-z-pythonemflaskiem/ Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:17:41 GMT OmniPITR 0.5.0 http://www.depesz.com/2012/03/30/omnipitr-0-5-0/ http://www.depesz.com/2012/03/30/omnipitr-0-5-0/ Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:10:31 GMT 2 PG Days in 2 days apart !! http://denishjpatel.blogspot.com/2012/03/2-pg-days-in-2-days-apart.html http://denishjpatel.blogspot.com/2012/03/2-pg-days-in-2-days-apart.html Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:12:00 GMT The desktop and server: oil and water. http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:48:20 GMT Readin' Dirty http://philsorber.blogspot.com/2012/03/readin-dirty.html http://philsorber.blogspot.com/2012/03/readin-dirty.html Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:39:58 GMT What to do when your timeline isn't right http://philsorber.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-to-do-when-your-timeline-isnt.html http://philsorber.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-to-do-when-your-timeline-isnt.html Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:53:34 GMT Handling DST changes in PostgreSQL http://keithf4.com/postgresql_dst http://keithf4.com/postgresql_dst Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:05:56 GMT monitor bucardo replication lag using circonus http://denishjpatel.blogspot.com/2012/03/monitor-bucardo-replication-lag-using.html http://denishjpatel.blogspot.com/2012/03/monitor-bucardo-replication-lag-using.html Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:06:00 GMT OmniTI at QCon, London http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/omniti-at-qcon-london http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/omniti-at-qcon-london Theo Schlossnagle will, once again, hit the road to deliver a session on Scalable Internet Architectures in QCon's Industrial-Strength Architecture for Integration and Web Computing track. He'll discuss the design principles of building highly scalable, resilient, and high-performance, Internet-facing systems. He'll walk attendees through the stack, from networking up to the application level, providing examples of how to do things right, and the consequences of doing them wrong. Examples will be drawn from network redundancy, caching, web app performance, database systems and service decoupling. Theo will also participate in a panel discussion on outsourcing. This is a well-known concept among managers for saving money in software development, but among developers, it is a different story. Theo and other panelists will share case studies and experiences on the infrastructure required for effective multi-sourcing. if you're in the area, you won't want to miss this event.


QCon is an enterprise software development conference designed for developers, team leads, architects and project managers offering opportunities for learning, networking, and tracking innovation occurring in the Java, .NET, HTML5, mobile, agile and architecture communities. QCon London is organized by Trifork A/S; a software development company in Aarhus, Denmark and InfoQ: tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community.

]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:31:55 GMT Schlossnagle Asks: Is this Normal? http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/schlossnagle-asks-is-this-normal http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/schlossnagle-asks-is-this-normal OmniTI founder and CEO, Theo Schlossnagle, is at O'Reilly's Strata Conference this week, presenting, "Is this Normal? Finding Anomalies in Real-time Data." According to him, there are many modern techniques for identifying anomalies in datasets, however, there are fewer that work as online algorithms suitable for application to real-time streaming data. Worse, most of these methodologies require a deep understanding of the data itself. He will lead Strata attendees on a tour of the options for identifying anomalies in real-time data and discuss how much they really need to know beforehand, in order to guess at the ever-useful question: is this normal?

Strata Conference offers the nuts-and-bolts of building a data-driven business; the latest on the skills, tools and technologies needed to make data work. The conference brings together practitioners, researchers, IT leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss big data, Hadoop, analytics, visualization and data markets.

]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:11:44 GMT You keep using that query. I do not think it does what you think it does. http://philsorber.blogspot.com/2012/02/you-keep-using-that-query-i-do-not.html http://philsorber.blogspot.com/2012/02/you-keep-using-that-query-i-do-not.html Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:23:45 GMT I built a node site http://www.xzilla.net/blog/2012/Feb/I-built-a-node-site.html http://www.xzilla.net/blog/2012/Feb/I-built-a-node-site.html Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:58:41 GMT PostgreSQL Oracle FDW vs DBI_Link http://keithf4.com/oracle_fdw_vs_dbi_link http://keithf4.com/oracle_fdw_vs_dbi_link Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:25:05 GMT Half a decade with OmniTi, PostgreSQL, FOSS ... http://denishjpatel.blogspot.com/2012/02/half-decade-with-omniti-postgresql-foss.html http://denishjpatel.blogspot.com/2012/02/half-decade-with-omniti-postgresql-foss.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:46:00 GMT OmniTI Sponsors New Conference: PG Corridor Days - DC 2012 http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/omniti-sponsors-new-conference-pg-corridor-days-dc-2012 http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/omniti-sponsors-new-conference-pg-corridor-days-dc-2012 PG Corridor Days--DC is an intensive, one-day Postgres symposium with technical sessions focusing upon the core topics you need to succeed with Postgres. Topics for users, developers and contributors to Postgres are on tap.

This conference is part of the Postgres “Corridor Days” series: a new set of community-run conferences that will be held up-and-down the East Coast. For its inaugural year, the Corridor Days conference series will take place in Washington, D.C. and New York City.


Attendees can expect to learn lessons from leading companies who use Postgres, have a chance to meet face-to-face in the "hallway track" to make lasting connections, and engage the best and brightest in a lively job market. The final schedule will be announced shortly, but already a number of great speakers have been lined up, including:


    •    Stephen Frost, Senior Principal, Noblis

    •    Bruce Momjian, Senior Database Architect, EnterpriseDB

    •    Robert Treat, COO, OmniTI

    •    Greg Smith, Principal Consultant, 2nd Quadrant

The conference is hosted by the Baltimore/Washington Postgres User Group (BWPUG). BWPUG was established in 2009, and is currently organized by OmniTI's Robert Treat, and Greg Smith and Stephen Frost. BWPUG holds free, monthly meetups on emerging Postgres and database technology topics with speakers from around the corner, and around the world.

PG Corridor Days DC 2012 will be held on March 30th, 2012 at the Executive Conference & Training Center, in Sterling, Virginia.

]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:46:39 GMT Theo Schlossnagle Talks with John Furrier, Silicon Angle http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/theo-schlossnagle-talks-with-john-furrier-silicon-angle http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/theo-schlossnagle-talks-with-john-furrier-silicon-angle The Node Summit, held this past month in San Francisco, brought together business leaders and technology experts to discuss Node.js’ transformative role in the future of computing. OmniTI's Theo Schlossnagle moderated the panel discussion, APIs & Endpoints at Scale. Attendees heard from staff of eBay, Sabre and Twilio about the challenges faced by some of the world’s most transactionally busy systems: how they keep up with massive scaling requirements while meeting demand for ever faster response times, and how Node.js can help to overcome some of the key roadblocks that lie ahead.

While there, he sat sat down with John Furrier and Alex Williams of Silicon Angle, in the Cube, and talked about node and the future of DevOps.

]]> Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:14:01 GMT Intrest free (technical) debt is risky http://www.xzilla.net/blog/2012/Feb/Intrest-free-technical-debt-is-risky.html http://www.xzilla.net/blog/2012/Feb/Intrest-free-technical-debt-is-risky.html Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:50:33 GMT Let’s get personal http://fayerplay.com/2012/02/lets-get-personal/ http://fayerplay.com/2012/02/lets-get-personal/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:41:37 GMT Denish Patel To Lead Database Team http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/denish-patel-to-lead-database-team http://omniti.com/remembers/2012/denish-patel-to-lead-database-team Following the steady growth in both client base and staff experienced by OmniTI in 2011, OmniTI has promoted Denish Patel to Lead Database Architect. He will oversee the work of our in-demand Database Team, ensuring that all clients receive the highest level of service.

Denish possesses a wide depth and breadth of expertise and experience in database technologies. With detailed understanding of complex database infrastructures, he has implemented numerous database solutions addressing challenging business requirements. Denish has hands-on industry experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL,  SQL Server and NoSQL databases. His expertise extends to heterogeneous database management, backup and recovery solutions, and performance optimizations. Denish leads OmniTI's database operations team. 

Prior to joining OmniTI, Denish was a database technology consultant on projects for enterprise clients in education, insurance, energy and pharmaceuticals, for companies such as Vectren Energy, Mylan Pharmaceuticals and M-Care Medicare Insurance. He holds an MBA from the Johns Hopkins University and a BS in Computer Science from Nirma Institute of Technology, India, and has spoken at the Postgres East and Postgres West Conferences.

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