Stanford Computer Science Professor, Jennifer Widom, joins Abrevity’s Board of Advisors
Jennifer’s background in nontraditional data management is an excellent fit with Abrevity’s move into metadata database technologies
August 28, 2006
San Jose, CA—Abrevity, Inc. announced today the addition of Jennifer Widom to their advisory board. Currently a professor at Stanford’s Computer Science and EE departments, Jennifer brings extensive experience in databases and information management.
Jennifer received a Bachelors degree from the Indiana University School of Music in 1982 and her Computer Science Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1987. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1993, she was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center where she was involved in research covering many aspects of nontraditional data management. She is an ACM Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She was a Guggenheim Fellow, and has served on a variety of program committees, advisory boards, and editorial boards.
“We are honored to welcome Jennifer to our advisory board,” said Abrevity CEO Rich Preston. “Her extensive background and leadership in databases the information management field will be invaluable as Abrevity continues its pioneering efforts into metadata technology, which is moving far beyond the rigidly structured technology of relational databases.
Abrevity’s new database technology is already beginning to have a positive effect on problems such as addressing Information Lifecycle Security (ILS), which is one of the most critical issues facing today’s enterprises. Jennifer’s deep understanding of this technology will be will be a great help to Abrevity as we move forward.”
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Abrevity is Silicon Valley’s leading innovator of Information Value Management™ software technology. Abrevity has designed a new data model that offers orders of magnitude better scalability, flexibility, visibility and affordability than solutions debilitated by traditional search or relational database technologies. Selected as one of six top storage companies to watch in 2006 by Network World, Abrevity has delivered Information Discovery, Classification and Management solutions to small businesses, Fortune 500 customers and leading OEMs.