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Bob served as President and CEO of Couchbase from 2010 to 2017. Until an acquisition by IBM in 2008, Bob served as chairman, CEO, and president of Transitive Corporation, the worldwide leader in cross-platform virtualization with over 20 million users. Previously, he was president and CEO of Tality Corporation, the worldwide leader in electronic design services, whose revenues and size grew to almost $200 million and had 1,500 worldwide employees. Bob held several executive general management positions at Cadence Design Systems, Inc., an electronic design automation company, which he joined in 1985 as an early stage start-up and helped to grow to more than $1.5 billion during his 13 years at the company. Bob also headed High Level Design Systems, a successful electronic design automation start-up that was acquired by Cadence in 1996.

Diversity makes us stronger – Couchbase values
Diversity makes us stronger – Couchbase values

Over the last few days everyone has been talking about President Trump and the actions he has taken in his first few days in office. One positive consequence of Trump’s recent action on refugees and immigrants is that it has...

Couchbase Named One of the Best Private Cloud Companies to Work for by Glassdoor
Couchbase Named One of the Best Private Cloud Companies to Work for by Glassdoor

We’ve had lots to celebrate at Couchbase lately and today I’m happy to announce that we have been named one of the “50 Highest Rated Private Cloud Computing Companies to Work for” in a recent study by Glassdoor and Battery...

Couchbase Launches ‘JSON ANYWHERE’ Mobile Strategy
Couchbase Launches ‘JSON ANYWHERE’ Mobile Strategy

Today we made another big announcement that has the potential to shake up the NoSQL landscape.  Our JSON Anywhere mobile strategy allows us to leapfrog the competition with significant new data management capabilities targeted specifically at mobile app developers. We...

NoSQL Industry Consolidation
NoSQL Industry Consolidation

Apple’s acquisition of FoundationDB a couple of weeks ago and Percona’s more recent acquisition of Tokutek raised many questions about whether the NoSQL industry is consolidating. It is and this is prompting lots of questions around the risks for developers...

Key-value vs document database? Couchbase 2.0 bridges the gap.
Key-value vs document database? Couchbase 2.0 bridges the gap.

Forget the debate over key-value vs document database. Find out how with the 2.0 release Couchbase is now both a key-value and a document database.

How Couchbase helped OMGPOP break all the records with Draw Something
How Couchbase helped OMGPOP break all the records with Draw Something

Every now and then you get the opportunity to prove yourself on a big stage. Four weeks ago we got the chance. Couchbase user, OMGPOP, had launched Draw Something – a Pictionary-like game that was going viral. Capitalizing on what...

Welcome to NoSQL, Oracle – we’ve been expecting you.
Welcome to NoSQL, Oracle – we’ve been expecting you.

Oracle’s entry into the NoSQL market, announced yesterday at Oracle OpenWorld, isn’t at all surprising to anyone who believes, like we do, that NoSQL is destined to be a disruptive force in the database market and eventually make up a significant percentage...

Couchbase Momentum: NoSQL on the Rise
Couchbase Momentum: NoSQL on the Rise

When we announced the Membase and CouchOne merger, it was thrilling to see the community share our excitement about the merger, and provide such positive feedback about the potential of bringing the CouchDB and Membase NoSQL technologies together. While great...

Notice Anything Different?
Notice Anything Different?

Today we began using our new company logo and updated the look and feel of our website. You can do a quick comparison of the logo change below.  We hope you like it.  For most of the people in the...

Why MySQL 5.6 is no real threat to NoSQL
Why MySQL 5.6 is no real threat to NoSQL

Over the past couple of days a number of people have asked my opinion of the latest MySQL 5.6 release. For those who haven’t seen the news, Oracle announced its first major MySQL release in two years. Since NoSQL has...

$25m Round of Financing  and 400% Growth for Couchbase
$25m Round of Financing and 400% Growth for Couchbase

Check out the blog to learn the blowout first half results and a new $25m round of financing. See the response to the Couchbase 2.0 release.