About

Before joining EnterpriseDB, I spent 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, I lead a supply chain consulting and systems integration company working with customers in the US, Canada, France, Germany and Switzerland. I have an extensive background in management, business consulting, systems integration, data management and business intelligence. I hold a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat) in Computer Sciences from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.


Marc Linster has presented the following presentations

    Marc Linster EDB Keynote at Postgres Conference 2020

    presented by Marc Linster

    EnterpriseDB Keynote

    Marc Linster The future of Postgres in a multi-cloud world at Postgres Conference 2020
    Deployment options that match your cloud Postgres needs

    presented by Marc Linster

    Postgres has won the race. It is the undisputed leader of relational databases for new and modern applications. This presentation will reflect on how customers take advantage of this new situation, how they deal with the complexity, and how they take advantage of Postgres as the universal data platform that is available in containers, in every cloud, in every data centre and on every developer ...

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    Ops and Administration
    Marc Linster Run Postgres Natively on Kubernetes at Postgres Conference 2020
    Easily deploy, scale, upgrade, and reconfigure Postgres clusters running in Kubernetes

    presented by Marc Linster

    Deploying Postgres on Kubernetes to achieve a highly available, monitored and robust environment, is challenging, it requires domain knowledge most developers don’t have. One way to reduce the complexity is to use a Kubernetes Operator, which manages custom resources such as Postgres to simplify the database life cycle. Using the EDB Postgres Operator, developers can easily deploy, scale, upgra...

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    Development
    Marc Linster Scalable Replication For Postgres at Postgres Conference 2020
    Create a highly available and geographically distributed Postgres infrastructures

    presented by Marc Linster

    Join Marc Linster (Senior Vice President of Product Development) and Zahid Iqbal to learn how EDB Replication Server uses Kafka and Zookeeper to create a highly scalable replication infrastructure. During this breakout session, presenters will highlight how EDB Postgres Replication Server (EPRS) can be used to create a highly available and geographically distributed Postgres infrastructures.

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    Ops and Administration
    Marc Linster A Look at the Global Economic Impact of Postgres at Postgres Conference
    Postgres Takes Charge Around the World Behind Strength of Open Source Community

    presented by Marc Linster

    Presenter: Marc Linster - Senior Vice President of Product Development, EnterpriseDB

    Abstract: Perspective on the global economic impact of Postgres development and how the ecosystem investing in core Postgres technology is fueling Postgres longevity and paving the way for its dominance.

    The broad expansion of Postgres into enterprises has led to increasingly robust Postgres skills of DBA...

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    Wed 20 2019 General Session
    Marc Linster Keynote: PostgreSQL - A Road Map for Evolving Challenges at PGConf NYC 2014 [PgConf.US]

    presented by Marc Linster

    The success of PostgreSQL supporting enterprise workloads has put the spotlight on where PostgreSQL development is headed next. Advances in recent releases have expanded the database’s ability to support new data types and unstructured data as data professionals wrestle with bigger and more complex data loads. Analysts are predicting a strong future for open source in the enterprise while compa...

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    General
    Marc Linster Migrations, Health checks and Support Experiences - Postgres from the Service Provider Perspective at PGConf NYC 2014 [PgConf.US]

    presented by Marc Linster

    This talk will review and summarize lessons learned from several years of providing 7X24 support for Postgres implementations, from dozens of migration assessments and from several years worth of Postgres architectural health checks. The talk identifies common problems that our customers have encountered and attempts to identify recommendations and best practices to improve adoption of Postgres...

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    General
    Marc Linster Postgres in a world of DevOps at PostgresConf US 2018

    presented by Marc Linster

    The talk will discuss how Postgres, the leading open source relational database, is positioned as the centerpiece of a pivot from traditional architectures to a micro-services based approach that is in full support of a DevOps motion.

    The talk will touch on how Postgres meets the key requirements of being developer friendly, supporting the process with a versatile data model using JSONB, in...

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    Development