Kx Systems announced that Niall Dalton has joined the company as chief solutions architect. The company said the new position was created to help Kx customers implement the strategic and proprietary solutions that give these leaders their competitive edge.
Dalton, experienced in developing vastly scalable parallel and distributed solutions, joins the Kx technology team to advise Kx prospects and customers before and after the sale on the IT architecture best suited to their performance requirements.
Currently based in London, Dalton reports to Janet Lustgarten, president.
“Over the past decade, I have consistently worked on language implementation and programming for parallel and distributed systems to solve real-world problems,” Dalton says. “As a result, my large-scale view crosses all the abstraction layers, from processor micro-architecture up to parallel programming on large clusters and service oriented architectures in distributed systems. It’s this combination of knowledge that I am excited to leverage on behalf of Kx customers, as they continue to solve the challenges of working with enormous volumes of data.”
Prior to joining Kx, Dalton co-founded xrnd (extreme research and development), an advanced technology consultancy helping clients in a variety of industries process ever-greater volumes of data in high-performance, scalable, and often real-time environments. In addition, Dalton was with lastminute.com, designing and implementing scalable software architectures for the travel site’s high-volume e-commerce search engines. His experience also includes backend technology for Java compilers at the Silicomp Research Institute in Grenoble, France.
“Kx is fortunate to have an architect with Niall Dalton’s expertise and track record in large-scale, high-performance solutions,” says Lustgarten. “Kx customers are now capturing and responding to 1 billion streaming records per day from the exchanges. Having Niall on board lets Kx customers know they can continue to rely on us for the performance and implementation expertise required to support the next generation of high-volume 64-bit applications.” This email, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by replying to this message and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-ma il and any print-out thereof.