Dr Jack Kreindler is a physician and physiologist with a parallel career in technology spanning 18 years. Jack architected and founded some of the UK’s largest online ventures in social media, health and finance: Douglas Adams’ H2G2.com acquired by the BBC, vielife.com acquired by Cigna and Dictate.IT, the National Health Service’s largest transcription provider. In 2002, Jack founded BlueOrange to incubate high growth startups including Imagini.net and developed a revolutionary webscale datastore, addressing the issue of database replication. Jack spun off GenieDB in 2008 to mature this technology - a solution to one of the hardest challenges in computer science.
Contributions
Video: An Introduction to GenieDB - April 2010
The Founder of GenieDB, Jack Kreindler, discusses how the company started out to solve the fundamental problem of scaling the database layer for growing web sites. They developed the GenieDB solution to provide immediate consistency in a fully replicated environment that makes database scaling transparent and easy for software developers.
Video: GenieDB Target Markets - April 2010
The Founder of GenieDB, Jack Kreindler, discusses the three main groups that are taking an interest in the GenieDB architecture. They include database vendors, developers looking to build upon or integrate with existing databases, and Cloud providers looking to offer applications and databases on top of their platforms.
Video: GenieDB Chalk Talk - April 2010
The Founder of GenieDB, Jack Kreindler, uses diagrams and a white board to give an overview of the GenieDB architecture and explains how it’s parallel database layers work together to provide consistency and full replication.