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Greenplum – a massively parallel processing (MPP) database based on the open source database PostgreSQL – began life as Metopa back in 2000. Scott Yara and Luke Lonergan officially founded Greenplum in June of 2003, with the first Greenplum Database released in January 2005. In July 2010, Greenplum was speedily acquired by EMC – which describes itself as an enabler that empowers organizations to deliver information technology as a service (ITaaS): “Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.”