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Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics

Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Tuesday.
Big Data usage models for the enterprise to be released by Open Data Alliance

The Open Data Alliance has established a Data Services Workgroup that has been tasked with identifying the most urgent requirements facing IT in tackling Big Data, to help create usage models for enterprises.
Hitachi releases Ultrastar 7K4000 line as first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive

Hitachi's former disk-drive division has announced the new Ultrastar 7K4000 line, which it said is the first enterprise-class 4TB hard disk drive.
EMC acquires app development management firm Pivotal Labs

EMC plans to buy Pivotal Labs, an application development consultancy that focuses on helping users create applications to run in big data environments.
Hadoop streaming tool launched by Informatica and MapR

Apache Hadoop users will soon be able to analyse data as it is streamed from its source, thanks to a partnership between data-warehouse software provider Informatica and Hadoop distributor MapR.
Oracle moves on R statistics market with Advanced Analytics

Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open source statistical modelling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It has announced a new Advanced Analytics product that ties R to its database and family of software/hardware appliances.
SAP HANA makes big 'data analytics more accessible'

SAP's new high performance analytics appliance (HANA) allows IT departments to spend less time on the plumbing and more time on tasks that will provide tangible business benefits, according to Timo Elliott, Business Intelligence evangelist at SAP.
Hertz adopts Teradata Data Warehouse for real time reporting

Car rental company Hertz has announced it is using Teradata's Active Enterprise Data Warehouse environment for its business critical reporting and decision making on integrated data.
EMC unveils all-SSD VNX, high bandwidth arrays

EMC has announced the availability of an all-solid state drive midrange VNX array with 10X the performance of previous models, as well as a high bandwidth option for its hard drive VNX models, offering 50% more bandwidth.
IBM introduce preconfigured analytics servers

IBM on Wednesday introduced mainframe and Power-based systems for analytics in an effort to compete with Oracle's Exadata.

Latest Features

Why Sybase was worth $6 billion to SAP

Few companies get a chance at a second life. When John Chen signed on as CEO of Sybase in 1998, the database software vendor was, in Chen's own words, "a very, very dead company." Once a strong competitor to Oracle, Sybase had lost its way, in part because it missed the opportunity to enter the enterprise application market Oracle now leads.
How virtual servers make the cloud more elastic

Q&A: The founder of ScaleMP explains the differences between scaling out and scaling up with virtualisation in the cloud.
Flash memory battleground is all about speed

Vendors are pushing ultra-fast flash memory-based appliances, but at what cost?
Oracle offers compression to DBAs

Oracle's powerful new HP Oracle Database Machine comes with 168TB of storage ... and a hefty price tag to boot. But there is another to boost processing power: the company's own efficient compression technology.
The dash for flash: SSDs get a flash boost

DRAM-cached flash memory solid state drives represent the high-performance end of the on-rushing solid state datacentre invasion. TMS' Woody Hutsell gives his views on what's happening in this leading/bleeding edge area.
Oracle ignores data migration worries claims rival

EntepriseDB takes the opportunity provided by the recent release of 11G to have a dig at Oracle's data migration, its licensing costs, and its green claims about 11G.
Book Review: Physical Database Design

This is a database book with a difference: this is not about how to build a database but this is about why. This is about how to make things work efficiently and how theory applies to real life. In short, it's an indispensible guide.
Data warehousing utopia

Dataupia has a new data warehousing appliance which scales by matching processing and storage power on a blade basis
HP's new view of data warehousing

HP's Neoview data warehousing/business intelligence product integrates industry standard processors and disks with a proprietary mesh network to provide a very high speed business intelligence capability.
HP goes BIO active

A greener and leaner HP is being formed. New EVA and Storage Essentials products coming. HP is consolidating for greener IT. But will DAT 160 see the light of day?

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Sybase IQ Bloor Report 2011

Sybase IQ is a column-based relational database that has been designed specifically for analytics and business intelligence applications. It can offer a number of very significant advantages within a data warehousing environment, including performance, scalability and cost of ownership benefits, when compared to conventional approaches.
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Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

This white-paper provides an overview of Oracle?s capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.
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Back to Business: How Business Modeling Rationalises Data Warehousing

The data-centric designs of data warehousing were conceived at a time when the Business Intelligence (BI) problem was thought to be a problem of data management - finding it, cleaning it and storing it. Data warehouse ?architecture" used to simply assume that provisioning data was sufficient.
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Banco Espírito Santo upgrades to Itanium for greater scalability in line with business needs.

?The problems we were previously facing have now gone away. We are now able to generate large reports much more quickly and efficiently.? Artur Guterres, head of information management, Banco Espírito Santo.
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