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  • IBM ponies up $1B to add flash to more products and speed up big data

    IBM ponies up $1B to add flash to more products and speed up big data: IBM said Thursday it would spend $1 billion to support flash storage in more of its products and open 12 facilities worldwide to show enterprises what a difference flash can make. It also unveiled its new FlashSystems line of flash-storage…

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  • IBM Goes All In On Mobile. Design First for MobileFirst

    IBM Goes All In On Mobile. Design First for MobileFirst: IBM is making a big splash today on mobile computing. Apparently the firm is doubling its investments in mobile. Just like the 2001 IBM Linux campaign, this is IBM re-focusing on what it thinks is the next big thing it must not miss.

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  • Yahoo Mulls Spinoff for Hadoop Software Unit

    Yahoo is considering to turn Hadoop into a business, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Ovum’s Tony Baer has a more detailed analysis at his blog in Yahoo to Hadoop: Show me the Money. In the long run, we also expect IBM to make a stab at Hadoop and related technologies by extending its…

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  • Structure Big Data Roundup

    Good number of articles from Derrick Harris over at GigaOm rounding up the Structure Big Data Conference. First, there’s a look at Hadoop, Cloudera, and alternatives to Cloudera from IBM, DataStax, Hadapt etc. in As Big Data Takes Off, the Hadoop Wars Begin, and second there’s a piece about Why Big Data Startups Should Take…

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  • 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.

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  • 2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

    Gartner released it’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, and Oracle apparently is sponsoring it for the public. We have to obvious suspects in the leaders quadrant: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SAP, as well as a few smaller folks. Most of the remaining vendors are in the niche players quadrant, there are no visionaries…

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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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  • IBM to Acquire Netezza

    Another breaking one: IBM to acquire Netezza. Watch Google News IBM Netezza as this unfolds.

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  • Netezza Updates

    A load of Netezza updates were piling up in my feed reader, so here’s an update just to get them out… A partial overview of Netezza database software technology A Seriously Happy Customer Exposes a Common Dilemma The Netezza and IBM DB2 approaches to compression Netezza Migrator™: A Point of Clarification Netezza’s silicon balance

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