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NoSQL Updates

There’s a lot going on in the NoSQL world, or maybe Derrick Harris was just exceptionally busy last night…

Wow!

September 21, 2011

Greenplum to have it’s own Hadoop Distribution

Reported and analysed by Tony Baer in OnStrategies Perspectives, and reported by Derrick Harris in GigaOm’s in EMC, NetApp Make It a Big Day for Big Data Star Hadoop, we learn that EMC is using the on-going EMC World conference to its potential, and is announcing that they’re growing the Database division with the decision to sell their own Hadoop distribution with value add management tools and integration.… Continued

May 9, 2011

Exadata Performance Architect moving to EMC’s Greenplum

Now that’s a thing: Kevin Closson Joins EMC Data Computing Division To Focus On Greenplum Performance Engineering! Kevin’s been the public voice of Exadata in the blogosphere for much of four years, so that’s quite a loss for the folks at Oracle.… Continued

March 29, 2011

Teradata acquiring Aster Data

This just came in: Teradata acquiring Aster Data. Database consolidation wars is full speed ahead, last month, it was HP acquiring Vertica, last year IBM bought Netezza, and EMC bought Greenplum. So within six months, the four biggest and most promising MPP DB vendors have found a new owner.

March 3, 2011

EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance

I’ve been wanting to write about the EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance for a while now, but that launch just took longer than expected. Go read Curt Monash’s notes and the ZDNet article for the available details. Their integration with Data Domain and with SAN as 2ndary copy, allowing to do SAN based replication, snaps or backups is something that I don’t see in other vendor’s packages.… Continued

October 14, 2010

EMC buying Greenplum

I had such a busy day that I didn’t get to post about EMC buying Greenplum. But there’s a good side to the delay too, because now I get to link to all the other folks who were faster than I, and have something to say on the topic.

… Continued

July 7, 2010