Life in the Cloud

Duplicating and Dissecting Data with Mark Van de Wiel of HVR

Episode Summary

How do you provide data feedback near instantaneously on a massive scale? Mark Van de Wiel, CTO at HVR, joins me for another episode of Life in the Cloud. HVR is in the data replication space. It serves large enterprise customers like Pitney Bowes, Lufthansa Airlines, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Episode Notes

How do you provide data feedback near instantaneously on a massive scale?

Mark Van de Wiel, CTO at HVR, joins me for another episode of Life in the Cloud. HVR is in the data replication space. It serves large enterprise customers like Pitney Bowes, Lufthansa Airlines, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Fifteen years ago, the most extensive data warehouses used maybe ten terabytes total. Nowadays, HVR is handling ten terabytes of data changes in a single day. Instrumental to their continued successes, Mark alludes to HVR having been scalable and highly efficient.

"What can we do to help our customers be successful in adopting some of these technologies and essentially solve their data problems?" Mark shares insights into how HVR anticipates changes in the industry to meet their customers' needs best.

Mark teaches about the least intrusive approach to capturing changes out of a transactional database system. It's through an innovation called Change Data Capture, and blockchain plays a role. Listen to this episode to learn more.

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