PARIS, France – September 3, 2012 – PostgreSQL Europe today published the schedule for PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012 and announced that Joe Celko, industry veteran and bestselling author, will be delivering the opening keynote. Joe will share with the audience a look into the way the industry first developed SQL, and what we will do next in the world of databases. PostgreSQL Conference Europe, one of the leading worldwide conferences on PostgreSQL, is taking place from 23-26 October at the Corinthia Hotel in Prague, The Czech Republic.

In addition to Celko's keynote, other luminaries of the open source community and the business and public sectors including Bruce Momjian, co-founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, EnterpriseDB, Magnus Hagander, Redpill Linpro, and Josh Berkus, PGExperts, all members of the PostgreSQL Core Team, as well as Simon Riggs, CTO of 2ndQuadrant and Guillaume Lelarge, CTO of Dalibo, both long-time contributors to the PostgreSQL community, will address topics ranging from database internals to end-user case studies for small companies, large multinational corporations and government organisations. The conference offers multiple parallel tracks and sessions in English and Czech. There will be PostgreSQL training sessions on October 23, the day prior to the opening day, with half and full day sessions on a range of topics.

The broad range of technical topics continues the PostgreSQL tradition of creating a conference that attracts a diverse attendance, from DBAs already using PostgreSQL or considering doing so to PostgreSQL contributors, application developers, and decision makers seeking to evaluate alternatives to proprietary databases. Topics this year include performance tuning, replication and scalability, cloud deployments, management of non-traditional data including geospatial information and ranges, and integration.

For more information, please visit the conference website at http://pgconf.eu/ or go directly to the schedule at http://2012.pgconf.eu/schedule/.

About PostgreSQL Conference Europe

PostgreSQL Conference Europe is organized by PostgreSQL Europe. PostgreSQL is the leading open source database system, with a global community of thousands of users and contributors and dozens of companies and organizations. The PostgreSQL Project builds on 25 years of engineering, starting at the University of California, Berkeley, and has an unmatched pace of development today. PostgreSQL's mature feature set not only matches top proprietary database systems, but also exceeds them in advanced database features, extensibility, security and stability. Learn more about PostgreSQL and participate in our community at www.postgresql.org.

Version 2.3.1 of this database design and round-trip engineering software has been released.

DbWrench is a database design and synchronization software.

It is designed to increase the productivity of database developers by making creating and modifying databases much easier.

Its features include:

• a graphic entity relation diagram (ERD) designer

• forward engineer database designs with automatic SQL DDL script generation

• reverse engineer and visualize existing databases

• a built in syntax highlighting SQL query editor

• runs on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux all in a single license
  

A free trial download is available at dbwrench.com

New in this release:

This release focused on improvements and enhancements to the diagramming and forward engineer features. In particular several refinements to the Click Actions feature were implemented. A query builder feature was scheduled for this release as well, however it was not completely ready by the release date and thus will be available in the next release.

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REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 31, 2012 — Quest Software is simplifying how customers of all sizes move their email to the cloud with its email migration solution, Quest OnDemand Migration for Email. The solution is based on Windows Azure and helps customers migrate to Microsoft Office 365. By running the solution on Windows Azure, Quest was able to give companies large and small a fast, low-cost, low-risk way to migrate email to cloud environments.

Quest recognized that many customers wanted to migrate their email messaging from both on-premises infrastructures and other cloud solutions to Office 365 but had questions about the migration, noting that several email migration tools in the market were difficult to set up and required the deployment of on-site servers for large mailbox migrations. As a result, Quest created an email migration solution that could be delivered using a software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment model with Windows Azure in which customers do not need to install or maintain any software for the move, helping save time and money.

“We wanted customers to gain instantaneous access to our migration product via any Web browser and start migrating users within minutes, not weeks,” said Ron Robbins, product manager, Migration Solutions at Quest Software.

By hosting its solution on Windows Azure, Quest can scale to meet its customers’ needs — from small businesses with hundreds of mailboxes to large enterprises with tens of thousands of mailboxes — all while keeping its migration service affordable. Quest’s pay-as-you-go pricing model, which is enabled by Windows Azure’s pricing model, also gives customers the flexibility to migrate all their users at once or spread the investment over time.

To date, Quest has migrated tens of thousands of email seats to Office 365 using OnDemand Migration for Email, and does so with exceptional levels of performance and availability from Windows Azure. Microsoft’s cloud platform also gives Quest the ability to expand its global reach.

“We can expand our markets because Windows Azure has datacenters worldwide,” Robbins said. “Deploying our own SaaS infrastructure worldwide would be cost-prohibitive, but with Windows Azure we can reach new markets without infrastructure concerns.”

Read more about Quest Software’s development of Quest OnDemand Migration for Email on Windows Azure in the case study.

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