Dan Ashton

Senior Director of Product Marketing, EDB

Dan Ashton has an extensive background with over 20 years in enterprise product marketing and corporate marketing management roles. Dan was Senior Director, Product Marketing at Rimini Street for nearly nine years where he led the launch of Postgres support. Previously he was Principal Product Director of Procurement Marketing at Oracle and held key product marketing roles at SAP/Ariba.

He is currently leading product marketing for Community 360, Remote DBA, Technical Account Management, Training and Professional Services. EDB Community 360 provides a circle of protection for PostgreSQL operations. Remote DBA delivers operational staff augmentation and expertise. Technical Account Management is your trusted advisor providing proactive, strategic assistance. Training educates your team with a variety of options. And Professional Services expedites Postgres deployments on your infrastructure, including migrations to Postgres from other database systems.

Dan enjoys genealogy and spending time with his two young granddaughters.

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Product Updates

Self-Support for PostgreSQL: Is It Saving You Money or Costing You?

Freedom, flexibility and cost-efficiency have made PostgreSQL the leading database management system for innovators who are tired of the restrictions imposed by legacy database providers like Oracle. As an open source database, many PostgreSQL adopters are self-supporting their database, unaware of other less risky and cost-effective options.
Product Updates

Unlock Possibilities with Free Postgres Training from EDB

We’ve seen firsthand what Postgres can do for a business—and we’ve also seen why it’s necessary for those who are invested in Postgres, to know Postgres. Our founding team is made up of many of those who’ve built Postgres from the ground up, and—with their expertise—we’ve been able to design Postgres training for every type of user.
Product Updates

Solving Your DBA Talent Gap: Upskill vs. Outsource

DBAs provide vital management and monitoring for your organization’s architecture, ensuring that you don’t fall prey to avoidable outages, lose access to mission-critical applications or data during an upgrade or accrue excessive downtime that could damage your reputation with customers—and your revenue as a result.
Product Updates

Is Your Postgres Support Failing You? Here Are 6 Signs It Might Be

Postgres support is complicated and dynamic—it needs to evolve with your infrastructure and your business priorities. While this means that everyone’s database support apparatus might look a little different, we believe that there are foundational capabilities that every organization should be able to rely on.
Product Updates

Minimizing Risk and Downtime During a Postgres Upgrade

Upgrading Postgres shouldn’t cripple you with prolonged downtime—even if you’re upgrading from several releases back. Technical support and professional services for Postgres are invaluable resources when planning for an upgrade to ensure a successful transition to the new release.
Product Updates

What To Do if You Can’t Find or Afford a Postgres DBA

There’s no way to sugar-coat it: unplanned downtime can mean serious business problems. In the modern business landscape, your database management system (DBMS) is the cornerstone, heart and north star of your IT stack. If it goes, everything goes with it.