IBM has been making a lot of data related acquisitions recently and today they added another company to their collection, Platform Computing. Platform Computing is a software company that makes tools to manage large computing clusters. They’ve also got some Hadoop/mapreduce related offerings which may be IBM’s interest area.
Jun 05
If you’re interested in using Hadoop as a tool within your enterprise, it can be quite an endeavor – figuring out what software components you need, what configuration you need, and what hardware it should run on. Lots of people are running different configurations and while the community does share a lot of information, there aren’t many good recaps of hardware being used. Monash Research has a good writeup that also compares how Hadoop hardware has changed over the past couple years.
May 16
When talking about data and the storage of data these days, you’ll often hear the terms “structured” and “unstructured”. Monash Research (DBMS2) has an interesting post on the topic.
Mar 04
There’s been a lot of consolidation in the database space recently and that continued today with Teradata announcing its acquisition of Aster Data for $263M. Check out the Aster Data press release.
Here’s the recap from DBMS2 and one from Techcrunch.
Jan 28
According to DBMS2, there are six useful things you can do with analytic technology:
* You can make an immediate decision.
* You can plan in support of future decisions.
* You can research, investigate, and analyze in support of future decisions.
* You can monitor what’s going on, to see when it necessary to decide, plan, or investigate.
* You can communicate, to help other people and organizations do these same things.
* You can provide support, in technology or data gathering, for one of the other functions.
Read the DBMS2 article for more info.
Jan 04
DBMS2 lists off 6 things to do with analytics.
Dec 31
Since by definition, derived data is based on lower level raw data, it could be derived again as needed. DBMS2 takes us through some thinking about how better to handle derived data.
Nov 07
DBMS2 takes a look at these three myths about mapreduce…
* MapReduce is something very new
* MapReduce involves strict adherence to the Map-Reduce programming paradigm
* MapReduce is a single technology
