David DeWitt Joins Splunk as Technical Fellow
July 27 2021 - 8:01AM
Business Wire
Cloud data leader welcomes pioneering MIT
database computer scientist
Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the Data-to-Everything
Platform, today announced David DeWitt, a pioneering database
computer scientist, has joined the organization. Known for his
groundbreaking work in parallel database systems, DeWitt will serve
as Vice President and Technical Fellow and will support Splunk’s
leading-edge innovation across its core data technologies to help
organizations accelerate successfully in the cloud.
“David is one of the most renowned database thinkers in modern
computing and we are thrilled to welcome him as we continue to turn
data into doing across a wide spectrum of critical use cases,” said
Shawn Bice, President of Products and Technology for Splunk. “He
will join as a Technical Fellow and work alongside our
distinguished engineers, which includes individuals with an
unparalleled depth of knowledge, and are also some of the most
curious and creative thinkers around.”
With more than 45 years of experience innovating
high-performance data systems, DeWitt is noted for his
extraordinary contributions to parallel database systems
advancement and his foundational work on SQL Server while at
Microsoft. Throughout his career he has emerged from retirement to
help Microsoft and Facebook tackle some of the most technically
difficult data challenges in the technology industry. As a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, DeWitt
continues to develop database management systems and explore novel
database systems technologies. He was also part of the faculty at
the University of Wisconsin from 1976 to 2008 and served five years
as chair of the Computer Sciences Department. DeWitt holds a B.A.
degree from Colgate University and a Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan.
“Splunk is known for redefining the boundaries of technology
innovation and I’m pleased to join the team to help uncover
innovative ways we can solve today’s toughest data challenges in
the cloud,” said DeWitt. “Organizations need a streamlined way to
analyze and act on their data across multiple sources and cloud
environments. Serving as a Splunk technical fellow is a wonderful
opportunity to advance data analysis and query strategies as data
volumes exponentially increase worldwide.”
For more information on Splunk’s approach to operating and
innovating faster in the cloud, please visit
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/cloud-transformation.html.
About Splunk Inc.
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Data-to-Everything Platform. Splunk technology is designed to
investigate, monitor, analyze and act on data at any scale.
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