BEDFORD, Mass., April 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- VoltDB today announced a new series of complimentary educational webcasts titled, "Stonebraker Says." MIT Professor Michael Stonebraker, a.k.a. the father of the modern relational database and VoltDB co-founder, will share insights and lessons learned from his 40-year career of industry innovation. 

In the first event of the series, "Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong," Stonebraker will challenge the conventional wisdom behind Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs), explaining why it's outdated and renders most major commercial DBMS offerings obsolete. He will make the case for modern in-memory architecture and why it's uniquely qualified to help organizations harness and make use of the tremendous onslaught of fast moving data generated by the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.

Join the conversation:

• Stonebraker Says: Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is All Wrong Webcast
• Tuesday, April 22, 2014 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET
• Register here

"The fact of the matter is that traditional database technology hasn't kept pace with modern business needs," said Bruce Reading, VoltDB CEO. "This is a valuable opportunity for attendees to gain knowledge and advice directly from a revered industry expert on how to meet the real-time challenges of this Big Data era. Listeners are guaranteed an honest perspective on how they can best leverage incoming data – when it's at its peak of relevance – to drive faster, smarter business decisions."

Click here for more information or to register for this inaugural event.

SAVE THE DATE: The next "Stonebraker Says" webcast will take place on May 13, 2014 at 11:30 a.m. ET. More details to come!

About VoltDB
VoltDB provides the world's fastest operational database, delivering high-speed data processing and real-time, in-memory analytics in a single database system. VoltDB is a relational database that gives organizations an unprecedented ability to build ultra-fast applications that can extract insights from massive volumes of dynamic data and enable real-time decision-making. Organizations in markets including mobile, financial services, energy, advertising and gaming use VoltDB to maximize the business value of data at every interaction. VoltDB is privately held with offices in Bedford, Mass. and Santa Clara, Calif. 

The world's fastest applications run on VoltDB.

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