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- Greenplum pushes envelope with MapReduce and parallelism enhancements to its extreme-scale data offering
- It seems that data infrastructure vendors are rushing to the realization that older database architectures have hit a wall in terms of scale and performance. The general solution favors exploiting parallelism to the hilt and aligning database and logic functions in close proximity, while also exploiting MapReduce approaches to provide...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Performance, Analytics, Greenplum, MapReduce, Database 3.2, Storage, Databases, Financial Planning, Performance Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Databases leverage MapReduce technology to radically juice data scale, performance, analytics
- Databases leverage MapReduce technology to radically juice data scale, performance, analyticsAster In-Database MapReduce Available NowDana - great article – thanks for covering this. Many agree this is a game-changing innovation for the database industry. I'd just like to point out: [1] Aster In-Database MapReduce is available now for evaluation...
- Tags: Storage, Financial Planning, juice data, database, MapReduce, analytics, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Greenplum gears up for datawarehouses
- Ive written about Greenplum here and here, which hopes to be a disruptive force in the business intelligence and datawarehousing arena with its open source stack. Today the company announced $19 million in funding, a major customer win (Smart Communications, the leading wireless service provider in the Phillipines), and the...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, GreenPlum
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- NCR Exits the Data Warehouse Market: See You Later, Teradater?
- NCR Exits the Data Warehouse Market: See You Later, Teradater?Study data warehouses more before slamming market leadersThis BLog is a 100% inaccurate prediction with no substantiating facts. Sun has tried unsuccessfully multiple times to get into DW. GreenPlum is one of a long series of start ups that has...
- Tags: Business intelligence, Storage, Databases, GreenPlum, NCR Corp., Gartner Inc., data warehouse
- Discussion threads 2007-01-18
- Sun and Greenplum claim price-performance win with data warehouse appliance
- Sun and Greenplum introduced a data warehouse appliance that uses the new Sun Fire X4500 server formerly known as Thumper and Greenplum's massively parallel distribution of PostgreSQL, Bizgres MPP. Here's what the two companies claim about the appliance:Two orders of magnitude better price- performance over competitionPerformance boost of 10 to...
- Tags: GreenPlum
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- Serious scaling for open source databases
- One of the biggest problems for those who want open source databasing is scaling. And now it may be solved. Once you start storing terabytes, and want to do deep business intelligence analysis on that data, a simple mySQL installation on a Dell...
- Tags: PostgreSQL, GreenPlum
- Blog posts 2006-05-24
- Shared nothing coming to open source
- Shared nothing coming to open sourceGood to see open source trying to catch up.Hope they make it...Not ExactlyThe point of the story is commercial products being built on top of open source.In time I expect those commercial products will themselves be open sourced, when additional, newer, better products are built...
- Tags: Databases, Business intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Data Warehousing System, Shared-nothing, GreenPlum, open source, Continuent, OLTP
- Discussion threads 2006-02-27
- Shared nothing coming to open source
- Shared nothing has been a big deal in the database world for some time. It's what companies like Google are based on -- a distributed database without a single point of contention.Now this concept is coming to open source. It's not entirely there yet. But with Greenplum's new Bizgres MPP,...
- Tags: open source, GreenPlum
- Blog posts 2006-02-27
- Greenplum takes the open source road to datawarehousing
- Yesterday I talked with executives from a company making the transition from selling a proprietary enterprise application to embracing the open source way. The newly minted Greenplum is actually a new iteration of Metapa, a company with an application for data distribution and query execution across a large cluster of...
- Tags: GreenPlum
- Blog posts 2005-04-14
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- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computing
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computingSun already HAS a DW ApplianceDana,Actually, Sun already has a data warehousing appliance: the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance, as it's named, based on Greenplum and Sun's Thumper. It's been quite successful, with several large commercial deployments and some...
- Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Sun Microsystems Inc., BriefingsDirect Insights, Exadata, cloud computing, virtualization, business intelligence, Oracle Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- News to know: Bailout bust and tech fallout; Cloud computing; Netgear; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: AP: Stunning Defeat for Bailout Plan Torpedoes Stocks; Dow Sinks Over 750. White House, lawmakers plan new bailout deal Larry Dignan: Is Apple really recession proof? Wall...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Sprint Xohm, Apple Inc., NetGear, WiMAX, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Open Source, Wireless
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Greenplum pushes envelope with MapReduce and parallelism enhancements to its extreme-scale data offering
- Greenplum pushes envelope with MapReduce and parallelism enhancements to its extreme-scale data offeringMapReduce overviewFor those who are interested in MapReduce in relation to a RDBMS I have an overview here http://blog.tonybain.com/tony_bain/2008/09/what-is-mapreduce.html
- Tags: MapReduce, parallelism enhancement
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- News to know: A Vista SP1 feast; Yahoo says no; Mobile World Congress; DC in data centers
- Notable headlines: All you need to know about Vista SP1 and then some. Ed Bott: A Vista SP1 FAQ. Vista SP1 hands-on: six trouble-free upgrades Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' ongoing test drive: Vista SP1, making it a little harder for users to forget their...
- Tags: Data Center, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Congress, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Alcatel, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Governance, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- HP takes aim at Teradata with Neoview mousetrap
- Last week I chatted with Ben Barnes, vice president and general manager of the HP's Business Intelligence Group. The former general manager of IBM's Global Business Intelligence Solutions Division was hand-picked by HP CEO Mark Hurd to take an old friend--Teradata, the leader in enterprise data warehousing. ...
- Tags: Teradata, Hewlett-Packard Co., Neoview, Sales Tools, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Data Mining, Research & Development, Investment, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Databases, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Hardware, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Open source business model reaching tipping point
- Over the last several years open source has grown in stature and maturity, becoming more worthy in the eyes of corporate buyers and investors. Everyone could point to Red Hat, which dominates the Linux operating system space, as the poster child for open source but few other "pure" open source...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., F/OSS, Open Source, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- PostgreSQL left out in database brouhaha
- PostgreSQL left out in database brouhahaTalk about bias ntntThe reason PosgreSQL is left out...Dana, I think the reason that you'll see PosgreSQL left out of the database brouhaha is because the conversation this week is focused on the enterprise. While PostgreSQL may have great adoption for deployment within the...
- Tags: Databases, PostgreSQL, Postgres, Ingres, database
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- Talend brings open source to enterprise data integration
- The enterprise open source software parade continues with Talend, which is bringing its data integration software. Talend Open Studio v2.0 generates data integration processes in Java and offers Extract, Transform and Load ETL functions for data warehousing and analytics, working on scale out, commodity hardware grids. It includes over...
- Tags: IT Management, Open Source, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- The true nature of open source
- In the beginning...open source was pure and unadulterated. Over time, the idea of community-build software that is free and unfettered by sticky licensing terms and fees caught on with IT buyers, and the disruption of the old order began. Now, open source (Linux, Eclipse, Java, etc.) is mainstream, with many...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Open Source, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- NCR Exits the Data Warehouse Market: See You Later, Teradater?
- I always wondered what NCR was doing owning Teradatas data warehouse business -- after all NCR makes cash registers, point of sales machines, and all manner of self-service kiosks and the like. Meanwhile, Teradata makes massive sanitary landfills of data, the dumping grounds for terabytes of formerly useful data now...
- Tags: Uncategorized, data warehouse
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Pervasive exits open-source PostgreSQL business
- Pervasive exits open-source PostgreSQL businessNBM'ers should be taking notes......"underestimated the high level of quality support and expertise already available within the PostgreSQL community."That translates into "the open source community".Translated, the business model doesn't work.So much for that...What they did wrong....... was to try and sell support for a product...
- Tags: Databases, open source, Pervasive, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Discussion threads 2006-08-01
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