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24 January, 2012: Cassandra and Hadoop
You can combine DataStax's distribution of Cassandra on the same cluster as Hadoop
19 January, 2012: Another choice for Hadoop
RainStor has just announced support for Hadoop, whereby you can use RainStor partitions within HDFS. This brings a number of advantages.
14 October, 2011: Informatica Data Replication
Informatica has entered the data replication market through the acquisition of WisdomForce
05 August, 2011: Hive, DataRush and Hadoop
Hive and Hadoop both have poor performance - Pervasive SOftware, with its DataRush technology, is doing something about that
29 June, 2011: Challenging Cloudera
Cloudera has been the default standard for enterprise Hadoop implementation but perhaps not any longer.
29 June, 2011: The EDW is dead
It's not just big data, the EDW doesn't work even for structured environments
16 June, 2011: Connexica CXAIR
CXAIR is a BI tool that supports queries against both structured and unstructured data
03 June, 2011: "Geolocate" the Cyber Attack
Geolocate the source of cyber attacks
15 April, 2011: Collaborative SIEM solutions
Combining SIEM products from different vendors may make sense
15 April, 2011: Exasol knocks the spots off
Exasol has just published 5 TP-H benchmark records, all the way up to 10Tb
14 April, 2011: A new take on an old problem
Why did Simplement choose HVR to support real-time query capability?
07 April, 2011: Simplifying rules
LogRhythm's Advanced Intelligence Engine makes building correlation rules much, much easier
04 March, 2011: The lesser-known MDM
There are many less well-known MDM vendors. One such (certainly in the UK) is Riversand.
04 March, 2011: Combining search and BI
Endeca Latitude tightly integrates BI and search: neither is simply an appenadage to the other
02 March, 2011: Process, governance and spreadsheets
If you want to have proper governance over spreadsheets you need to understand the processes involved in creating and using spreadsheets.
02 March, 2011: Accessing archived data
DataNovata from NSC offers an interestingly different approach to accessing archived data
28 February, 2011: How come Syncsort is so fast and what does that mean?
Syncsort holds the ETL record for loading a warehouse. How is it that it is faster than all the big guys and what other implications does that have?
22 February, 2011: expressor releases Standard Edition
expressor is introducing its Standard Edition to add to the Community Edition launched last year
18 February, 2011: There are connectors and then there are connectors and then there is so much more
Saphir, from Silwood Technology, has the deepest understanding of SAP and Oracle environments that I have seen anywhere
20 January, 2011: There's identity resolution and then there's identity resolution
Identity Insight from IBM is not a data quality product