Tom Rieger

Senior Sales Engineer, EDB

Tom Rieger is a Senior Sales Engineer based in Minnetonka, Minnesota USA. He focuses on helping clients realize how to take advantage of modern hardware platforms and data platforms to increase capabilities/innovation and greatly decrease cost. At EDB, Tom has been on the forefront in defining and identifying how clients can realize that innovation and decreased cost across cloud vendors (AWS, Azure and GCP). Tom has been in enterprise computing over 35 years as a change-agent developing and working closely with clients to bring greater innovation and a reduced TCO. Rather it was moving workloads off a mainframe to open-systems or the most recent move into 'a cloud', he has been involved with some of the largest organizations in the world. 

In his role at EDB he works on developing and evolving how to measure multiple database platforms to identify what 'optimal' looks using a consistent workload based on the TPC benchmark, all the while identifying a true view of total-cost and price/performance.

Tom has been a lifelong golfer who has won 4 long-drive competitions.

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Business Transformation

Getting the Best Price and Performance with Microsoft Azure, Intel and Postgres

Defining what ‘good’ looks like in technology is now more complicated than ever, especially in the area of relational databases. That’s why HammerDB created an open source tool that makes it easy to compare one database to another. This tool incorporates TPC-C—online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmarks from the Transaction Processing Performance Council—to measure transactions per minute.
Business Transformation

5 Key Tech Trends and Predictions for 2024

It’s that time of year again, when industry experts and analysts predict what’s in store for next year. As the leading contributor to open source Postgres, we help organizations all around the globe harness the full power of Postgres, and we’ve seen a number of trends emerge in our work with clients over this past year. We believe these five trends below will take center stage and play a critical role in transforming our industry and world in 2024 and beyond.
Business Transformation

4th Annual State of Corporate Technology Report: Top Trends and Key Opportunities

The rapid evolution of technology has ushered in a new era filled with potential, yet also packed with challenges. In order to shed light on the trends and opportunities, my co-author Andrew Marsh from Platform 3 Solutions and I compiled insights from over four years of research and 100,000 participants. The results, which we highlight in our whitepaper, show how corporate technology is changing, its profound impact on businesses, and the strategies corporations are employing to maintain a competitive edge.
Business Transformation

[AUDIO BLOG] The Builders: "The True Cost of Cloud Databases" with Tom Rieger

In this episode of The Builders, EDB Senior Sales Engineer Tom Rieger discusses the economics and challenges of cloud computing, emphasizing the need to balance performance and costs when migrating to the cloud. He addresses issues like choosing the right computing environments and understanding the fine print and hidden costs associated with cloud services.
EDB Labs

Solving the Cloud Database Investment Mystery

Moving databases to the cloud is currently one of the most popular IT activities in enterprises around the world. According to Gartner, spending on cloud databases is outpacing on-premises spend with 95% of new workloads being deployed in a cloud-native platform by 2025. And the benefits from being in the cloud are widely recognized, especially when it’s a fully managed service, where your cloud...
EDB Labs

What’s Next in Open Source in 2021?

This blog will discuss the history of open source, define it, and explain how it has become so relevant in modern corporate technologies. We’ll review its growth and its relevance today.