The EDB Blog
The latest thought leadership pieces from EDB, including company and PostgreSQL announcements
Marc Linster
EDB to Community - Acquisition Statement
Oct 6, 2020
This is a very exciting time for the PostgreSQL world. Never before has such a large number of committers, contributors, and advanced users been under...
What’s New in PostgreSQL 13
Sep 23, 2020
PostgreSQL 13 is here, and as always EDB is proud to be among the many global contributors who made this happen. This year there’s not one headline...
Postgres: A Strategic Tool When Deployed Properly
Jun 3, 2020
This article summarizes best practices and lessons learned from working with large and mid-size companies in their deployment of Postgres. Some...
A Review of 4 Top PostgreSQL Books
May 8, 2020
When I first started looking into Postgres, there were very few books in bookstores (yes, those still existed - that was a long time ago) and the only...
Optimizing Performance and Security in Postgres with Platform Native Packaging
Apr 15, 2020
Several years ago, EnterpriseDB (EDB) decided to deprecate the one-click installers for Linux in favor of native packages. EDB still provides and...
Top Tools to Manage Postgres in an Enterprise: Administration, Performance, High Availability, and Migration
Apr 8, 2020
This blog post lists tools for managing Postgres in the enterprise for administration, performance tuning, recovery, oracle to Postgres migration and high availability. While this is a big topic, there are common denominators that we have seen in many Postgres projects.
Introducing Postgres Pulse: Insights & Live Q&A with Postgres Experts
Mar 25, 2020
We get numerous tech issues and common database symptoms flagged to our team on a daily basis. And given the current landscape fraught with...
What is Cloud Computing and What Does it Mean for Postgres in the Enterprise?
Mar 18, 2020
The reality? We will all move to the cloud! New research from Gartner validates that the future of database deployment is in the cloud. In fact, 83%...
The Future of Postgres in a Multi-Cloud World: A Developer Perspective
Mar 3, 2020
The annual PGConf India conference just took place in Bengaluru on February 26-28, where EDB had seven of its experts speaking—including a keynote...
Creating a multi-layered security architecture for your databases
Nov 5, 2019
Data security has never been more important than it is today. Considering the amount of data collection most modern apps require, it’s imperative to...
Marc Linster
Before joining EnterpriseDB, Marc spent almost 4 years at Polycom, the leading maker of video communications equipment, focusing on the Services Supply Chain, Business Intelligence, Customer Data Management and Cloud Solutions. Prior to Polycom, Marc led a supply chain consulting and systems integration company working with customers in the US, Canada, France, Germany and Switzerland. This tapped the expertise he developed at Avicon Group, where he spent six years, first as chief technology officer then as vice president of operations, developing an extensive background in management, business consulting, systems integration, data management and business intelligence. Marc holds a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat) in Computer Sciences from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.