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Article | 13/12/2012 Oracle buys DataRaker for 'big data' analysis
Oracle is planning to buy DataRaker in a move that will give it a cloud-based platform for analyzing data from smart meters used by energy utilities. ...
Article | 21/11/2012 Supercomputers face growing resilience problems
As supercomputers grow more powerful, they'll also grow more vulnerable to failure, thanks to the increased amount of built-in componentry. A few rese...
Article | 16/11/2012 World's most powerful big data machines charted on Graph 500
The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloa...
Article | 13/11/2012 Jaspersoft BI suite gets a new visualization engine
With the commercial release of version 5 of its self-named reporting and analysis suite, Jaspersoft has revamped the software's visualization engine, ...
Article | 8/11/2012 Facebook boosts Hadoop with scheduling muscle
Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert.
Article | 7/11/2012 Microsoft adding in-memory technology to SQL Server
In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management...
Article | 23/10/2012 Internal SAP document reveals potential plans for next-gen BI, 'HANA Explorer'
SAP is working on a number of potential next-generation BI (business intelligence) technologies meant to exploit the company's HANA in-memory database...
Article | 22/10/2012 IBM refreshes analysis offerings
At IBM's Information On Demand and Business Analytics Forum, being held this week in Las Vegas, the company announced a number of new add-ons and serv...
Article | 14/12/2011 SAP spells out vision for HANA-driven software architecture
SAP executives provided new details about the company's plan to make the HANA in-memory database the focus of a sweeping reinvention of its software a...
Article | 18/11/2011 SAP co-CEO talks new product areas, in-memory computing
SAP could be entering significant new product categories soon, judging from remarks made by co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe on Thursday.
Article | 3/11/2011 Informatica rolls out data parser for Hadoop
Informatica has strengthened its hand in the burgeoning market for Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing, unve...
Article | 2/11/2011 Sybase IQ 15.4 features 'Big Data' theme, support for Hadoop, MapReduce
Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning "Big Data" market with an array of new features, including native integr...
Article | 1/11/2011 HortonWorks hones a Hadoop distribution
Yahoo spinoff company Hortonworks has released a preview edition of what will be a fully open source distribution of the Apache Hadoop data analysis p...
Article | 26/10/2011 SAP Q3 profits soar on reduction of TomorrowNow provision
SAP reported Wednesday a 14 percent increase in revenue in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, and said its business pipeline continues to remain very s...
Article | 19/10/2011 IBM announces preconfigured analytics servers
IBM on Wednesday introduced mainframe and Power-based systems for analytics in an effort to compete with Oracle's Exadata.