Chip Ernst VP US Sales, Speedb

Speedb LTD, maker of a next-gen data engine that helps organizations evolve their hyper-scale data operations, has named Chip Ernst to its executive team as VP of US sales – its first sales leader since emerging from stealth in December 2021.

As developers struggle with cloud-scale applications that can’t perform, this appointment will enable the company to reach more organizations that are looking to deploy data engines in their architectures – data engines that are purpose-built for today’s massive, hyper-scale data operations.

Speedb is at the vanguard of a changing hyper-scale industry, where software-only

Based in Boston, MA, Chip brings over 20 years of experience in building global sales teams and driving strategic partnerships at both start-ups and large multinationals. He joins Speedb from Lightbits Labs, where as VP of strategic sales, he drove US enterprise business development efforts and helped build highly scalable sales practices, while also overseeing its indirect channels program. Previously he served as VP sales and business development for Reduxio (now Ionir), where he opened the US Northeast market and achieved the company’s first sales, before leading its WW sales organization.

Earlier HE served as executive director of strategic alliances at Turbonomic (acquired by IBM), and founded and ran a technology service provider in Amsterdam that provided data processing services in the EMEA market. HE also held senior business development roles at NetApp and General Electric.

This appointment comes at a time when skyrocketing metadata volumes threaten application performance and when massive, hyper-scale data operations are pushing the limits of existing data engine capabilities.

Seed funded by Hyperwise Ventures, Speedb is changing the Key Value Store (KVS) market with a next-gen data engine that is delivered as a drop-in RocksDB-compliant embeddable solution. It enables RocksDB users to meet their most demanding data needs without making changes to their applications. In doing so, RocksDB users can achieve limitless scale and performance, without compromising storage capacity and agility.

Recently Speedb has announced a strategic partnership with Redis, where this later will offer its enterprise-grade data engine technology as an option to its customers with large deployments of Redis on flash.

Its extensible technology is suitable for a range of web-scale applications including write-intensive databases, AI/ML, IoT and 5G applications. It has strategic alliances with other OEMs to improve user scalability, performance and cost on their platforms.

“We welcome Chip Ernst as our first sales leader, and are eager to leverage his proven skills to accelerate our growth ramp as we help more developers fill the missing link in their modern data center architectures,” said Adi Gelvan, CEO and co-founder. “Speedb is at the vanguard of a changing hyper-scale industry, where software-only technology removes the capacity, scale and performance limitations of existing solutions. Chip will help us take our company, and the entire market, to the next level.“