Tesora Database as a Service (DBaaS) Platform is Finalist in MIT Sloan CIO Symposium’s Innovation Showcase

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 13, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tesora’s (www.tesora.com) database as a service platform is one of 10 advanced technology products featured and selected as finalists in the 13^th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Innovation Showcase.

Tesora’s Database as a Service (DBaaS) platform is an enterprise-hardened version of the open source OpenStack Trove that offers secure, private cloud access to the most popular open source and commercial databases through a single consistent interface.

“In an ever-increasing cloud-based world, it’s become very clear that large organizations want the choice and flexibility that comes with making databases available from any public, private or hybrid cloud environment,” said Ken Rugg, CEO of Tesora. “We’ve worked very closely with the open source community to deliver on the promise of OpenStack Trove as an enterprise-ready solution, and this selection by the MIT Sloan Symposium is a great acknowledgement of what we have accomplished.”

“We are thrilled to invite these top 10 companies to our 2016 Innovation Showcase,” said Anton Teodorescu, Co-Chair of the Innovation Showcase. “Their technologies are leading edge, and will be vital to empowering the future digital economy.”

For a full list of Innovation Showcase finalists visit  https://www.mitcio.com/innovation

The Innovation Showcase will take place at 5:30PM in the Kresge courtyard tent on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at MIT, in Cambridge, MA. The full agenda of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is available at www.mitcio.com/agenda.

About the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is the premier global conference for CIOs and digital business executives to become more effective leaders. In one day, CIOs and senior IT executives explore enterprise technology innovations, business practices and receive actionable information that enables them to meet the challenges of today and the future. The Symposium offers a unique learning environment by bringing together the academic thought leadership of MIT with the in-the-trenches experience of leading, global CIOs and industry experts. The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is organized and developed by the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association, the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE), and the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). Visit www.mitcio.com for more information and registration.

About OpenStack Trove
OpenStack Trove database as a service is transforming the way databases are provisioned and managed, to make database capacity that can be consumed on-demand. Trove lets administrators and DevOps manage multiple instances of different database management systems (DBMS), both relational and NoSQL, using a common infrastructure. This makes it much easier and faster to select and operate a database – while retaining all its capabilities – in a secure private or public cloud. The result is that routine tasks like provisioning, and managing regular administrative tasks like clustering, replication, backup and restore are handled in a simple, unified way.

About Tesora
Tesora brings more than 200 years of cumulative database technology experience to the OpenStack community, helping organizations get the most from their OpenStack investment by making it easy to deliver database capacity on demand. The company is the leading contributor to the OpenStack Trove project and developer of Tesora DBaaS Platform Enterprise Edition, the first commercially-available product based on Trove. To learn more about Tesora visit tesora.wpengine.com.

Bill Baker
Baker Communications Group, LLC
tesora@bakercg.com