Eyeing the growing market for big data analysis,Amazon Web Services(AWS)has introduced a storage package,called High Storage,that can offer fast access to large amounts of data. High Storage,an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2)package,is ...
Tags: Amazon Web Services, accommodate big data storage, EC2 package
2012 was the year of big data.2011 had been a good year for the hyped concept,too,and 2013 is more than likely to see a continued glut of big data discourse in the IT market. But there are other themes in this collection of top 10 ...
Tags: big data, IT market, information management stories, data warehouse
2012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream.More users started adopting cloud-based services and vendors intensified competition by launching aggressive price wars for market share. Enterprises and public sector organisations ...
Tags: cloud computing, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, DBaas
With Oracle now in a self-imposed "quiet period" prior to its next quarterly earnings release, it's not likely the company will make any major announcements until its OpenWorld conference, which kicks off at the end of September. Given ...
Tags: Oracle, quiet period, earnings, OpenWorld conference
IBM has expanded its PureSystems line of pre-integrated systems to include new models to handle business analysis and online transaction processing. The PureData systems have been assembled to excel at three common tasks within enterprise ...
Tags: analytics, big data, business, IBM, PureSystems
The global market for business analytics software grew roughly 14% in 2011, fueled by pervasive hype about "big data" as well as new technological innovations, according to a report unveiled by analyst firm IDC on Wednesday. Between now ...
Tags: business analytics software, global market, technological innovations
Adding to an already considerable set of cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, pitching it as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise data warehouse deployments. “Anyone who has ...
Tags: Amazon, amazon cloud, Amazon Web Services, data warehouse
BBC managers are gaining tighter cost control with SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence dashboards. Simon Griffiths, data and reporting improvement manager at the BBC, presented the corporation’s home services management ...
For tens of thousands of users,Informer software provides real-time access to multiple databases including Oracle,SQL Server,MySQL,Access,DB2,Informix,U2 and others without the need for complex ETL processes,data warehousing,or data cubing. ...
Tags: Informer software, Entrinsik, KPI, Implementation Services
Network World-During Hurricane Sandy this fall,The Weather Channel experienced its highest traffic ever.Normally the media company--which spans television,desktop and mobile platforms--supports about 90 million Web and mobile users a ...
Tags: Weather Channel Forecasts, Web traffic, EC2, public cloud
Four leading executives from US big data and analytics companies tell a similar story of imminent increased big data analytics adoption in the UK and Europe.Senior executives from MapR,Cloudera,ParAccel,and Pentaho traced out the likely ...
Tags: Big data analytics, parallel programming framework, social media data
Enterprise users of public cloud welcomed Amazon Web Services' new products and price reductions,but said that additional features such as better security,ease of use and added multiple-availability to overcome outages issues could make ...
Tags: Gov-cloud, Amazon Web Services, security, cloud services
Big data a catalyst for change Corporate IT, BI and enterprise search Finding the gems Social, collaborative common to BI and search Business intelligence (BI) and enterprise search have been converging slowly in corporate IT ...
Tags: big data, BI, business intelligence, search software
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) plans to consolidate its data warehousing estate in a bid to cut costs and improve its effectiveness. It will create a consolidated data warehouse to support its burgeoning range of business intelligence ...
Teradata has fired the starting pistol in the race to make unstructured,semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing manageable and accessible in a single integrated architecture. With the arrival of its"Unified Data ...
Tags: Teradata, SQL, data warehouse, MapReduce, Hadoop, Aster