Aster Data has seen tremendous growth in North America. We announced today that we have opened a Europe office in West London, England. The office will be headed by Bob Pearson, our newly appointed Europe Area Director. Bob is an entrepreneurial industry leader and had earlier introduced Opsware into Europe, eventually propelling Opsware to be #1 in Europe in its market. We had been in conversations with Bob for 12 months – understanding the European market – before we opened our office this summer.
We also announced today that our first customer in Europe is the #1 online poker gaming site in the world, Full Tilt Poker. We have been working with Full Tilt Poker for 8 months now helping deploy Aster nCluster to power their fraud prevention systems and provide enhanced customer service to their players.
It is no surprise that data size growth is a world-wide phenomenon, and certainly occurs across “the pond” as well. We have noticed that European customers in numerous industries, such as financial services and insurance, online retailing, social networking, communications, and gaming are deploying new (and sometimes custom) applications to leverage big data.
Aster Data is certainly the most application friendly big-data infrastructure in the market, and we look forward to working with our European customers in the coming years!