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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

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

EMC Buys Greenplum – Big Data Realignment Continues

EMC Buys Greenplum – Big Data Realignment Continues

By Merv Adrian on July 6, 2010

EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, announced today as a cash transaction, reaffirms the obvious: the Big Data tsunami upends conventional wisdom. It has already reshaped the market, spawning the most ferment in the RDBMS (and non-R DBMS via the noSQL players) space in years. When I first posted on Greenplum over a year ago, I said […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, AIX, Aster, blades, business intelligence, Cloud, core, CPU, data integration, data load, Data Warehousing, Database, database performance, DB2, DBMS, Documentum, EMC, ETL, Exadata, Exasol, Greenplum, Hardware platforms, hp, ibm, indexing, Industry Trends, Java, Kickfire, Linux, mdm, microsoft, MPP, multicore, Netezza, NoSQL, NUMA, Open source, oracle, PADB, ParAccel, Postgres, PostgreSQL, rack, RDBMS, sap, Solaris, Sun, Sybase, Teradata, TPC, TPC-H, unisys, Vendor image and communications, Virtual Machine, VM, VMware, vSphere, windows | 2 Responses

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