Last week I attended the IBM Big Data at the Speed of Business event at IBM’s Research facility in Almaden. At this analyst event IBM announced multiple capabilities around its big data initiative including its new BLU Acceleration and IBM PureData System for Hadoop. Additionally, new versions of Infosphere Big Insights and Infosphere Streams (for data… Continue reading 3 Takeaways from the IBM Big Data Event
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Hadoop + MapReduce + SQL + Big Data and Analytics: RainStor
As the volume and variety of data continues to increase, we’re going to see more companies entering the market with solutions to address big data and compliant retention and business analytics. One such company is RainStor, which while not a new entrant (with over 150 end-customers through direct sales and partner channels) has recently started… Continue reading Hadoop + MapReduce + SQL + Big Data and Analytics: RainStor
Four Vendor Views on Big Data and Big Data Analytics Part 2- SAS
Next up in my discussion on big data providers is SAS. What’s interesting about SAS is that, in many ways, big data analytics is really just an evolution for the company. One of the company’s goals has always been to support complex analytical problem solving. It is well respected by its customers for its ability… Continue reading Four Vendor Views on Big Data and Big Data Analytics Part 2- SAS
EMC and Big Data- Observations from EMC World 2011
I attended EMC’s User Conference last week in Las Vegas. The theme of the event was Big Data meets the Cloud. So, what’s going on with Big Data and EMC? Does this new strategy make sense? EMC acquired Greenplum in 2010. At the time EMC described Greenplum as a “shared nothing, massively parallel processing (MPP)… Continue reading EMC and Big Data- Observations from EMC World 2011
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