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Charleston, SC and Washington, DC - Crunchy Data Solutions, Inc. (Crunchy), a provider of enterprise PostgreSQL support, technology and training, today announced the release of Crunchy MLS PostgreSQL, an open source database distribution supporting multi-level security.

Crunchy MLS PostgreSQL was developed to support the relational database requirements of the U.S. Government’s Centralized Super Computer Facility. Crunchy is proud to be a part of the Multi-Level Security Ecosystem that includes participants such as Lockheed Martin, Red Hat® and Seagate to provide high performance at massive scale while protecting data internally and externally.

Crunchy CEO Bob Laurence said, “Crunchy MLS PostgreSQL provides an innovative open source alternative to legacy relational database technologies.  With this solution, mission-critical programs can benefit from the combined cost efficiencies of Multi-Level Security and Open Source Software.”

Crunchy and Lockheed Martin collaborated closely to provide PostgreSQL as an open source relational database for multi-level security

Amid the well-deserved hype around the impact of cloud technology and big data analytics, it is possible that casual industry watchers may have missed the real story behind the recent wave of IT re-architecting.

Enabling many of these recent, powerful trends is a newly validated embrace of open source software technology. The movement to OSS solutions is empowering system designers and solution architects to re-examine methodologies that evolved out of the legacy proprietary, closed source software license model. Put simply, OSS allows developers of IT systems to create better results and cut costs.

Enterprise IT leaders in business and government have taken notice of the benefits of OSS. For example, the recently launched U.S. Digital Service published a Digital Services Playbook

January 22, 2015

11:00am - 12:00pm ET

As part of Carahsoft's Open Source Essentials Series, join Jeff McCormick, Crunchy Data Architect and Matt Zager, Red Hat Solution Architect for a complimentary webinar on how OpenShift and PostgreSQL can enable agencies to benefit from an open source infrastructure.

During this session our experts will cover:

• How OpenShift platform-as-a-service technology can help agencies rapidly deploy open source database technology such as PostgreSQL
• How Crunchy's PostgreSQL Management technology enables on-demand database provisioning
• Reference software architecture and sample performance benchmarks

Crunchy Data Architect Jeff McCormick's guest post on the Red Hat OpenShit Blog demonstrates how to deploy a PostgreSQL Pod, running as a Docker container, in OpenShift v3 and end up with a deployed solution.

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Video from PGCon 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dDsoG0Q6E

Crunchy is proud to partner with /training/etc Inc. to provide a free half day PostgreSQL "techlite" training session on May 29, 2014 at /training/etc's facility located in Columbia, Maryland.

Greg Smith, Chief PostgreSQL Evangelist at Crunchy and author of PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance, will provide an introduction to PostgreSQL development and administration.

For more information or registration, please email training@crunchydatasolutions.com

Location: Charleston, SC

Crunchy Announces High Availability PostgreSQL for OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat’s on-premise platform-as-a-service offering.

Crunchy Data Solutions, Inc., a fast growing provider of open source PostgreSQL technology and support, today announced the release of the Crunchy High Availability PostgreSQL