Crunchy Data Solutions Names Carahsoft Master Government Aggregator

CHARLESTON, SC and RESTON, VA--(Marketwired - Jan 14, 2015) - Crunchy Data Solutions, a fast growing provider of open source PostgreSQL technology and support to national security and critical infrastructure enterprises, today announced an agreement with Carahsoft Technology Corp., the trusted Government IT solutions provider and top-ranked General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule Contract holder. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as Crunchy's master government aggregator, providing proactive sales and marketing activities to generate demand for Crunchy's solutions throughout the public sector market.

"We are thrilled to have our solutions added to the Carahsoft family of market-leading open source products and services," said Bob Laurence, Crunchy's co-founder and CEO. "This partnership is essential to achieving our goal of bringing Crunchy's innovative offerings around PostgreSQL technology to bear in the widest number of applications in the US Government market."

Crunchy Data Solutions offers a combination of Community PostgreSQL development, on-premise database engineering and administration, secure enterprise support and PostgreSQL training. These solutions enable enterprises to confidently deploy PostgreSQL, a robust, secure and far less costly alternative to proprietary relational database technologies.

"Tight budgets, aggressive schedules, and a pressing need to adapt quickly to meet changing business conditions are driving agencies throughout the government to embrace Open Source technology," said Natalie Gregory, vice president of Open Source Solutions at Carahsoft, which also serves as Red Hat's master government GSA dealer and distributor. "Through our partnership with Crunchy, we will be able to provide Open Source PostgreSQL to agencies requiring secure US-based support and high performance management capabilities."

Crunchy also recently released the Crunchy High Availability PostgreSQL Cartridge for Red Hat's OpenShift Enterprise Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. The Crunchy High Availability PostgreSQL Cartridge enables enterprises to enjoy the feature richness, performance and reliability of community PostgreSQL in a high availability architecture, with the streamlined application delivery, scalability, security and control associated with OpenShift Enterprise.

For more information on Crunchy Data Solutions, register for "Database as a Service Using OpenShift Enterprise," a complimentary Red Hat-Crunchy Data Solutions webcast being held at 11am, Thursday, January 22, 2015; or contact the Crunchy government team at Carahsoft at (703) 871-8570.

About Carahsoft
Carahsoft Technology Corp. is the trusted Government IT solutions provider. As a top-ranked GSA Schedule Contract holder, Carahsoft serves as the master government aggregator for many of its best-of-breed technology vendors, supporting an extensive ecosystem of software manufacturers, value-added resellers, system integrators, and consulting partners committed to helping government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best possible value.

The company's dedicated Solutions Divisions proactively market, sell and deliver VMware, Symantec, EMC, Adobe, F5 Networks, Open Source, HP, SAP, and Innovative and Intelligence products and services, among others. Carahsoft is consistently recognized by its partners as a top revenue producer, and is listed annually among the industry's fastest growing firms by CRN, Inc., Washington Technology, The Washington Post, Washington Business Journal, and SmartCEO. Visit us at www.carahsoft.com.

About Crunchy Data Solutions, Inc.
Crunchy Data Solutions, Inc. (Crunchy) is a fast growing provider of open source PostgreSQL technology, support and training to national security and critical infrastructure enterprises. Crunchy's Secure Enterprise Support provides exclusively US based PostgreSQL support to enterprises with a particular focus on supply chain security. When combined with Crunchy's on-premise PostgreSQL professional services and PostgreSQL training, Crunchy enables enterprises to confidently deploy PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database, as a dramatically less costly, and yet no less secure, open source relational database solution. Learn more at http://www.crunchydatasolutions.com.