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Amazon Redshift Disrupts DW Economics – But Nothing Comes Without Costs

Amazon Redshift Disrupts DW Economics – But Nothing Comes Without Costs

By Merv Adrian on December 10, 2012

At its first re:Invent conference in Late November, Amazon announced Redshift, a new managed service for data warehousing. Amazon also offered details and customer examples that made AWS’  steady inroads toward enterprise, mainstream application acceptance very visible. Redshift is made available via MPP nodes of 2TB (XL) or 16TB (8XL), running Paraccel’s high-performance columnar, compressed […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, Amazon, analytics, Data warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, DBMS, hadoop, mapreduce, On Business Intelligence, Redshift, software licensing, Vendor image and communications | 2 Responses

IBM Fills Out Netezza Lineup With High Capacity Appliance

IBM Fills Out Netezza Lineup With High Capacity Appliance

By Merv Adrian on June 23, 2011

In the months since IBM closed its Netezza acquisition, the data warehouse appliance pioneer has been busy, if the announcements at this week’s Enzee are any indication. An enthusiastic crowd – 1000 strong – heard CEO Jim Baum deliver the news: new hardware, software and partnerships.The biggest news was The Appliance Formerly Known As Cruiser, […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, Data Warehousing, Database, DBMS Blogs, gartner, ibm, Industry Trends, mapreduce, Netezza, oracle

Cloudera Convenes Colleagues to Crunch Content (Make Mine Membase)

Cloudera Convenes Colleagues to Crunch Content (Make Mine Membase)

By Merv Adrian on November 28, 2010

Over the past two years, Cloudera has demonstrated the power of surrounding emerging open source software with support services, expertise and its own IP. The firm has  racked up over 30 customers since its founding in late 2008, and emerged as the leading source of Apache Hadoop. Cloudera’s recent C round of financing brought its […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, Big Data, Cassandra, Cloudera, crippleware, failover, Flume, hadoop, Industry Trends, Informatica, key-value store, mapreduce, Membase, memcached, MongoDB, mySQL, NoSQL, OLTP, Open source, RDBMS, Riak, Sqoop, SSD

Oracle’s Exadata Refresh Ups Ante on Technology and Selling Strategy

Oracle’s Exadata Refresh Ups Ante on Technology and Selling Strategy

By Merv Adrian on November 11, 2010

The Exadata marketing story is unrelenting, and Oracle backed it with plenty of happy customers for analysts to query at Open World this year. The stories were compelling; I’ll mention a few below. In the analyst pitch, we were shown a couple of dozen logos – good for a still relatively new high-end, long sales […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, compression, data compression, Exadata, gigabit ethernet, Industry Trends, Infiniband, Larry Ellison, microsoft, oracle, PDW, PMML, POC, rack, sales, sap, SAS, SOA, SQL Server, storage server, Teradata, XEON

Calpont’s InfiniDB – Another ADBMS Insurgent Arises

Calpont’s InfiniDB – Another ADBMS Insurgent Arises

By Merv Adrian on November 8, 2010

Calpont, rapidly emerging as yet another contender in the ADBMS sweepstakes, has announced version 2.0 of InfiniDB, its columnar MPP offering over shared storage. The value proposition hits now-familiar themes: high-performance query, fast data loading, data compression, and parallelized user defined functions (UDFs), all of which are becoming key checkoff capabilities. InfiniDB also hits hard […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, BBBT, Calpont, column stores, columnar, community edition, correlated subquery, data compression, data load, DDL, distributed query, EMC, failover, Greenplum, ibm, Industry Trends, InfiniDB, mapreduce, microsoft, MPP, mySQL, OEM, Open source, oracle, partitioning, Percona, pricing, sap, shared nothing, shared storage, SQL, storage engine, Sybase, Teradata, UDF

EMC Jumps Into ADBMS Appliance Game

EMC Jumps Into ADBMS Appliance Game

By Merv Adrian on November 4, 2010

The Data Computing Appliance, first deliverable from EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, was announced last month, only 75 days after the acquisition closed, and it doesn’t lack for ambition.  Pat Gelsinger, EMC CEO, pointed to the high level opportunity: unlocking the “hidden value” of enormous and growing data assets every company is increasingly holding, and often […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Aster Data, backup, Cisco, data load, Data replication, Data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, DBMS, deduplication, Dell, EMC, Exadata, Greenplum, ibm, Industry Trends, intel, MPP, multicore, oracle, ParAccel, rack, RDBMS, RecoverPoint, recovery, SAN, server, Storage, Sybase IQ, terabyte, Teradata, Vblock, VCE, Vertica

IBM Acquires Netezza – ADBMS Consolidation Heats Up

IBM Acquires Netezza – ADBMS Consolidation Heats Up

By Merv Adrian on September 20, 2010

IBM’s bid to acquire Netezza makes it official; the insurgents are at the gates. A pioneering and leading ADBMS player, Netezza is in play for approximately $1.7 billion or 6 times earnings. When it entered the market in 2001, it catalyzed an economic and architectural shift with an appliance form factor at a dramatically different […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, BI, business intelligence, Business Objects, Cloudera, cognos, Data mining, Data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, Data Warehousing, Database, DatAllegro, DBMS, FPGA, GNU, hadoop, hp, ibm, IBM POWER, Industry Trends, Kalido, Kona, mainframe, mapreduce, microsoft, MIcroStrategy, NEC, Netezza, node, oracle, R, SAS, Skimmer, smart analytics system, spatial analysis, spss, statistical analysis, storage engine, Teradata, Tibco, TwinFin, UDF

Aster Data Adds Columnar Storage, Puts Stake in Ground for Hybrid Multistores

Aster Data Adds Columnar Storage, Puts Stake in Ground for Hybrid Multistores

By Merv Adrian on September 18, 2010

Aster Data has announced its new version, nCluster 4.6, which now includes a column data store, staking a claim as the first ADBMS to combine SQL and MapReduce on a hybrid row and column MPP system. While its R&D has hitherto been focused on enabling advanced in-database analytic processing in its flagship “Data-Analytics Server, ” […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Aster, column stores, data compression, data modeling, fault tolerance, hybrid multistores, indexing, Industry Trends, mapreduce, MPP, nCluster, partitioning, SQL, statistical analysis, time series, UDF

Wrapping Up TDWI – Agile? You Bet. And You Should.

Wrapping Up TDWI – Agile? You Bet. And You Should.

By Merv Adrian on August 24, 2010

I’ve posted twice about TDWI’s San Diego event, and I still haven’t exhausted the thoughts I wanted to share. That’s a measure of just how important and successful I think the show was. Three things jumped out at me: The audience is back, and it’s ready to spend. The event was buzzing; I was told […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, Agile, Agile BI, Aster, BI, business intelligence, Eclipse, IDE, Industry Trends, mapreduce, TDWI, Wherescape RED

More TDWI Notes – ParAccel Rolling On, HP Stalled, Vertica Leading Insurgents

More TDWI Notes – ParAccel Rolling On, HP Stalled, Vertica Leading Insurgents

By Merv Adrian on August 20, 2010

On my second day at TDWI, I was in meetings all day – events like this are a great opportunity for analysts to catch up with many of the companies they follow at one time, and this particular one was packed with sponsors. Congrats to the folks who sell sponsorships – they had a packed […]

Posted in Business | Tagged 1010 Data, ADBMS, column stores, Data Warehousing, DB2, DW, Endeca, hp, Industry Trends, Information Builders, Kickfire, Knightsbridge, mapreduce, MPP, NeoView, ParAccel, Parallel Data Warehouse, sessionization, smart analytics system, Sybase IQ, TDWI, Teradata, Vertica, Xtreme Data

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