IBM has acquired SPSS and more recently acquired business analytics firm Red Pill. Now they are announcing an internal analytics product called Blue Insight, the largest private cloud computing business analytics environment in the world. Check out the Techcrunch article.
Oct 28
Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, announces the launch of their new cloud based relational database – the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
Jun 17
Here’s a great article from DataWrangling about using Amazon’s Cloud services to analyze traffic data from Wikipedia. The 320 GB data set is available to the public here.
Mar 24
Well-known for it’s enterprise analytics solutions, SAS is now in the process of building a new facility to support an expanded SAAS (software as a service) offering in the area of analytics via the cloud. Construction on the new facility in NC is scheduled to begin this summer.
Mar 20
I was starting to experiment with Amazon’s EC2 a couple nights ago and it isn’t terribly difficult but it is tricky trying to figure out what steps to take in what order. If you’re looking for a beginners’ guide to cloud computing with Amazon EC2, here it is – EC2 for Poets. This guide details everything you need to do.
