Adam Wilson

Adam Wilson
Adam Wilson is the General Manager for Informatica’s Information Lifecycle Management Business Unit. Prior to assuming this role, Mr. Wilson was in charge of product definition and go-to-market strategy for Informatica’s award-winning enterprise data integration platform. A long time employee of Informatica, Mr. Wilson has held numerous development, product management, and marketing leadership roles within the company. He was in charge of business intelligence products from 2000-2004, established the R&D program management organization between 2004-2006, and took over data integration product management and marketing responsibilities in 2006. Throughout his career, Mr. Wilson has focused on delivering innovative products that help organizations gain competitive advantage by increasing information agility. Before joining Informatica, he co-founded and served as COO of Zimba, a developer of mobile applications that provided integrated, real-time access to corporate, personal, and business partner information. Zimba was sold to Informatica in August of 2000. Earlier in his career, Mr. Wilson worked at Accenture in their financial services practice. Mr. Wilson holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an engineering degree from Northwestern University.

Informatica And EMC – So What’s The Big Idea?

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Adam Wilson

Last month, Informatica and EMC announced a strategic partnership at EMC’s annual user conference in Boston.  This is a significant new relationship for both companies-which in itself is interesting.  You would have thought that the company responsible for storing more data than just about anybody in the world and the company responsible for moving more data than anybody in the world would have come together many years ago.  So why now?  What’s different?

Virtualization changes everything.   Customers have moved beyond virtualizing their infrastructure and their operating systems and are now trying to apply the same principles to their data.  Whether we’re moving the data to the processing, or the processing to the data, it’s clear where data physically lives has become increasingly irrelevant.   Customers want data as a service and they don’t want to be hung up on the artificial boundaries created by applications, databases, schemas, or physical devices. (more…)

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Informatica Announces First Cloud Archiving Service Optimized For Databases

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Adam Wilson

This is my first blog for Perspectives and I wanted to talk about one of last week’s announcements -Informatica introduced the first ever cloud archiving service optimized for databases.   Since then, I’ve had a number of questions from customers and analysts about what exactly makes it optimized?   Certainly, a number of vendors have the ability to land data in the cloud, so how is this different?  Let me capture the highlights:

  • The data is massively compressed before transmission-close to 60:1. That can take the upload time down from days or weeks to hours or minutes. No need to constantly mail DVDs to Amazon to get data on S3. (more…)
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