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IBM Goes to the Cloud for Sentiment Analysis
IBM will make its Hadoop-based InfoSphere BigInsights platform available via the cloud so enterprises can perform Big Data Analytics without needing to install and service Hadoop clusters on premise, according to the company. The news was announced this morning to coincide with the kick-off of IBM’s annual Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas. IBM ...
HP’s Got A Hidden Gem in Vertica – But You Might Not Know It
When you’re wrong, it’s best to admit it. So I admit it. Back in June I said I expected “Vertica to play an increasingly important role in HP’s converged infrastructure push.” I was wrong. In fact, I haven’t heard HP make much noise about Vertica at all, save for a recent announcement of a free ...
As Tableau Expands to the Enterprise, Pressure Mounts to Remain Fast and Flexible
A few years ago I wrote about a little known Seattle-based software vendor that specializes in cutting-edge data visualizations and whose tools were embedded in many consumer and enterprise applications. At the time, few people had heard of them, even if they were unknowingly using the vendor’s data visualization tools (at the time Oracle, for ...
Orbitz Taps Big Data In The Cloud with Kognitio Deal
For Orbitz, the cloud and Big Data fit hand in glove. The online travel company recently began using Kognitio’s cloud-based data warehousing platform – Kognitio calls it Data-as-a-Service – to process and analyze large volumes of display advertising data collected from across Orbitz’s numerous web properties. Specifically, Kognitio’s channel owners and marketing analysts tap Kognitio’s ...
Data Scientists Play Key Role Inside EMC
EMC is known for helping enterprises store, manage and make use of their Big Data. But EMC’s internal engineering, sales and services divisions are dealing with a lot of data of their own. That’s where Frank Coleman comes in. Coleman is an EMC data scientist. He and his team are tasked with turning mountains of ...
Time For IBM To Take Its Hadoop Case To The Streets
IBM continues to invest in its Big Data portfolio, today announcing it will acquire Canadian grid management software vendor Platform Computing. But the company has yet to make a concerted effort to educate the open source Hadoop community about its significant Big Data portfolio. First, the news: Platform Computing, based in Toronto, specializes in software ...
VMware’s Patel: Oracle Trying To “Thwart” VMware
VMware Vice President of Global Alliances Parag Patel said his firm has a number of customers that want to virtualize their Oracle environments on VMware, but that Oracle is standing in the way. Speaking live inside theCube at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco, Patel told Wikibon’s Chief Analyst Dave Vellante that VMware and Oracle have ...
All Is Not Kumbaya In the Hadoop Open Source Community
When you think “open source community,” do you think of a tightly knit group of developers linked arm-in-arm dedicated to building and promoting an open standards-based technology? Well, that scenario may be common in the early days of any given open source project, but internal rivalries are sure to develop sooner or later over the ...
Oracle’s Hanchin: Oracle Partners “On Board” with Pre-Engineered Appliance Approach
The last two years have been a transition period for not just Oracle, but Oracle’s partners as well. As Oracle embraces the pre-configured, pre-engineered appliance model, partners that once made money helping customers integrate Oracle’s various components have been forced to find a new way to support customers. But most Oracle partners are “on board,” ...
EMC’s Shum: Availability Biggest Pain-Point for Oracle DBAs
Oracle database administrators face a number of challenges, but for Mel Shum, their biggest challenge is clear. “The big pain point is availability,” said Shum, a Backup and Recovery Technical Consultant at EMC “Applications write to the database, the database gets bigger and bigger, yet the backup window at best stays static or at worst ...
