Roger Burkhardt Joins Panel to Discuss GRC-Enabled Cloud during InformationWeek Virtual Event

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - February 08, 2010 - Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today that Roger Burkhardt, president and CEO of Ingres, will participate in an InformationWeek virtual event this week titled, "Modernizing IT Governance, Risk and Compliance to Accelerate Flexibility and Visibility." Burkhardt joins as part of a panel on "How to Prepare for a GRC-enabled Cloud: Understanding New Requirements Around Building Stronger Governance in the Public Cloud." The panel is set for Wednesday, February 10, from 1:00 - 1:45 p.m. (EST), where participants will discuss best practices for enterprise migration to the cloud and look at what organizations must be aware of when investigating cloud services.

As the CEO of Ingres, the world's second largest open source company and the former CTO of the NYSE, Burkhardt brings a unique perspective to the panel and will share details on how embracing alternative technologies is a more cost efficient and innovative way to manage the bottom line. Burkhardt will be joined by Bryan Doerr, CTO at Savvis Communications; Paul Lappas, vice president of engineering at GoGrid; and Greg Shipley, CTO at Neohapsis for a discussion on how to prepare for a GRC-enabled cloud, and specifically understanding new requirements around building stronger governance in the public cloud. The panel will be moderated by Andrew Conry-Murray, new products and business editor, InformationWeek and NetworkComputing.

"The cloud model provides an excellent opportunity to move to a more flexible and lower cost model, but it requires smart choices by IT leaders to manage risk and service levels to avoid being locked into proprietary interfaces," said Burkhardt. "Stock exchanges are among the earliest providers of cloud services and I look forward to sharing my experiences with an audience of InformationWeek readers who are developing their strategies to exploit the cloud model. Cloud computing is the future and we are at the start of what could be a decade long cycle as enterprises build out their cloud computing technologies. Open source underpins most leading current cloud implementations because of its superior economics and faster innovation. I believe 2010 will be a year in which open source adoption moves up the stack in cloud applications to include application servers, databases, integration tools, and systems management."

"Cloud computing has the potential to transform the way organizations deliver applications and consume compute cycles and storage space," said Conry-Murray. "We are pleased to have Roger Burkhardt join us for this important event that we hope will provide a clear picture of the risks to corporate information and a firm understanding of how cloud operations will affect an organizations compliance and governance mandates."

The InformationWeek Virtual Event will begin at 10:00 a.m. (EST) on February 10. Please visit, http://techweb.com/grc-virtual for agenda and registration details.

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About Ingres Corporation
Ingres is a leading open source database management company. We are one of the largest open source companies in the world and the pioneer of the New Economics of IT, providing open source solutions at a dramatically reduced cost compared with proprietary software vendors. As a leader in the New Economics of IT, Ingres delivers low cost and accelerated innovation to more than 10,000 customers worldwide.

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