Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)

Left to Right: Sudhakar Sannakkayala, General Manager Open Source Relational Databases, Microsoft, Ozgun Erdogan, CTO and Co-Founder, Citus Data, Umur Cubukcu, CEO and Co-Founder, Citus Data, Sumedh Pathak, VP of Engineering and Co-Founder, Citus Data, Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure Data

Data and analytics are increasingly at the center of digital transformation, with the most leading-edge enterprises leveraging data to drive customer acquisition and satisfaction, long-term strategic planning, and expansion into net new markets. Microsoft Azure Data Services are a great example of a place where we have continuously invested in offering choice and flexibility with our fully managed community based open source relational database services, spanning MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB. The acquisition of Citus Data builds on Azure’s open source commitment and enables us to provide the massive scalability and performance our customers demand as their workloads grow.

Source: blogs.microsoft.com