(US and Canada) Zetaris, the leading analytical data virtualization company, recently announced that Kent Graziano joined the company as its Chief Technical Advisor. Graziano, known as The Data Warrior, is an internationally recognized thought leader in cloud and data warehousing strategies. He has written dozens of articles and books on data modeling, Data Vault, and agile data warehousing. Previously he served as Snowflake’s Chief Technical Evangelist.

Graziano sees a tremendous market opportunity to help enterprise data warehouse, BI, and advanced analytics customers with on-prem legacy systems migrate to new cloud-based data platform solutions such as Snowflake. Zetaris users can expect a 6x speed-up of data projects, a massive reduction in cloud compute costs and a 3x reduction in the total project cost when overlaying the Zetaris Networked Data Platform across existing data tools and platforms. Graziano decided to come out of semi-retirement to join Zetaris because he recognizes the need for closer integration between the cloud and existing data center solutions to enable real-time analytics.

"What’s exciting are the possibilities presented by real-time analytics," says Graziano. "Zetaris has an innovative platform that enables data-driven organizations to get immediate insight and value without transferring all their data immediately to the cloud. I’m delighted to be asked to advise Zetaris and help the company achieve new levels of success."

Zetaris is fortunate to have Graziano onboard as CTO, notes Vinay Samual, Zetaris founder and CEO. "His extensive understanding of the data warehouse market will be invaluable in guiding the evolution of our Networked Data Platform. His insight will be indispensable as we craft our product roadmap and expand our go-to-market strategy."