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Article | 28/01/2011 Oracle to release finance data warehouse
Oracle is offering a data warehouse tailored for the needs of the financial services industry, the company announced Thursday.
Article | 20/01/2011 Does Microsoft deal signal death of HP's Neoview?
Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft's unveiling Wednesday of a series of data warehousing appliances has some observers sounding the death knell for HP's Ne...
Article | 2/11/2010 Informatica teams with Cloudera to ease Hadoop use
Informatica has modified its business intelligence software so that it can work with Cloudera's Hadoop distribution, the two companies announced Monda...
Article | 14/10/2010 EMC tackles big data with Greenplum appliance
Taking aim at the growing problem of <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-big-promise-big-data-what-you-need-know-today-585">big dat...
Article | 12/10/2010 Hadoop pitched for business intelligence
While it began life as a tool for indexing Web pages, the open source Hadoop framework is being marketed as a tool that could house and analyze vast a...
Article | 13/09/2010 How Microsoft PowerPivot will disrupt BI
Could the age of self-service BI (business intelligence) finally be near? And, if so, are organizations ready?
Article | 12/08/2010 Forrester: Open-source BI has pros and cons
A new Forrester Research report finds that while a number of open-source BI (business intelligence) offerings are providing many of the capabilities e...
Article | 11/08/2010 Teradata quietly scoops up Kickfire
Data warehousing vendor Teradata has quietly scooped up Kickfire, a startup analytic appliance vendor known for its use of the open-source MySQL datab...
Article | 9/07/2010 EMC-Greenplum deal could precede more consolidation
EMC's announcement this week of plans to purchase data warehousing vendor Greenplum represents a harbinger of things to come for that market, as well ...
Article | 7/07/2010 New Postgres to add the polish
With the impending release of version 9.0 of the open-source Postgres database, due in mid-August, the developers behind the project are hoping that t...
Article | 30/06/2010 Cloudera preps Hadoop for the enterprise
Cloudera has unveiled a new set of Hadoop management tools, called Cloudera Enterprise, that the company will offer for an annual subscription fee, it...
Article | 13/04/2010 Greenplum's Chorus builds data marts from multiple sources
Database and data warehousing vendor Greenplum plans Monday to unveil Chorus, a bundle of software that allows users to quickly provision new data mar...
Article | 26/11/2009 Crunching data on the cheap
Data-warehousing software systems are expensive, but many enterprises have nonetheless been willing to dig deep, betting that analytics will provide n...
Article | 9/06/2009 Greenplum spins 'Enterprise Data Cloud' vision
Data warehousing vendor Greenplum on Monday rolled out its "Enterprise Data Cloud" initiative, a long-term product and methodology strategy meant to f...