Category: Technology
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IBM Netezza Update
Analyst reactions to yesterday’s announcement of IBM acquiring Netezza are now coming in. Here’s Forrester’s Yuhanna on IBM Buying Netezza, Sending Clear Shot Across Oracle’s Bow, and there’s Curt Monash with Some thoughts on the announcement that IBM is buying Netezza. Curt also spells out that there’s a breakup fee of around 3%, meaning somebody…
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Oracle Exadata Updates
After yesterday’s Exalogic announcement, Oracle now also announced a good chunk of updates on Exadata. Not a v3, though, but Exadata X2-8 does sound like a winner for those who need the single-node performance of an 8 socket (at 8 cores each) DB server box with 2TB of RAM. Wow! The X2-2 edition is more…
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IBM to Acquire Netezza
Another breaking one: IBM to acquire Netezza. Watch Google News IBM Netezza as this unfolds.
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Oracle Exalogic, Linux Changes
As expected, Larry Ellison announced Oracle’s new Middleware appliance at OpenWorld yesterday – Oracle Exalogic features 30 servers, Infinibad, Flash storage. More about the announcement in eWeeks’s Oracle’s Ellison Introduces Exalogic: New Cloud-in-a-Box System. Supposedly there’s also an OLTP appliance announcement due today – could be Exadata v3 that everybody’s been talking about? On a…
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PowerPivot Resources
Now that PowerPivot is released, it’s about time to get Excel 2010, and start experimenting with it! Luckily there are a couple guys who have already collected a good summary of links about PowerPivot: How to start with PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot Jump Start!
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NoSQL Primer for RDBMS folks
Chen Shapira apparently went through a similar information gathering and facts finding exercise as I did with NoSQL, but she’s much better at writing it up all in this concise and complete article NoSQL Deep Dive – The Missing White Paper. Highly recommended for all folks who understand SQL RDBMS, and need a quick way…
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Teradata, Cloudera team up on Hadoop data warehousing
Does anybody remember as far back as two months ago? That’s when I asked All these connectors being announced makes me think there’s somebody out there with a matrix of RDBMS and NoSQL systems, looking at which combinations don’t have a marketable connector yet so he can be first to market. Now we have another…
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Exawars
There are some funny little wars being fought in the blogosphere between Teradata and Netezza attacking Oracle Exadata. Instead of taking side, let me just link to what’s been going on so far. The Teradata whitepaper that got the ball rolling: Exadata – the Sequel. Exadata V2 is Still Oracle DB Professor Daniel Abadi is…
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Project Lockdown updated for 11gR2
Arup Nanda finally updated his Project Lockdown series of Oracle Security articles for 11gR2. Definitely worth a read (and I’m surprised I can’t find an article on my blog about the first version of Project Lockdown – must’ve happened during a low-impact-blogging phase). Via Alexander Kornbrust.
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Colossus: Google dumps MapReduce in favor of BigTable
El Reg has an exclusive interview with Eisar Lipkovitz, a senior director of engineering at Google, who states that their recent search engine update “Caffeine” moves Google’s back-end indexing system away from MapReduce and onto BigTable. Colossus is apparently their codename for v2 of GFS. Todd Hoffs then provides some further analysis in Google’s Colossus…
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