Netezza Resurrection
IBM have announced a new offering which provides an upgrade path for existing Netezza users who have not already migrated away from that platform.
Teradata spins off Starburst
Teradata has announced that it is spinning off the support and development of the Presto SQL on Hadoop engine, into a new company called Starburst Data.
Teradata partners with Alation
Teradata will be reselling Alation's Data Discovery product in place of Loom.
Comfort zones
Stories are becoming broader and that doesn't necessarily make life easier
EXASOL expands
EXASOL, in addition to introducing version 5.0 of EXASolution, has been expanding overseas.
Calpont InfiniDB version 4.0
Calpont has released version 4.0 of its warehouse. Major features include extended cloud support and open source licensing plus the ability to run on HDFS.
What is Actian actually doing? - Why does Actian need so many databases?
Having not even digested Pervasive Software yet, Actian has now acquired ParAccel. Why?
Is data warehousing holding back the advance of analytics?
I take a look at Pervasive's DataRush, potentially the most disruptive idea in analytics since Bill Inmon told us to build data warehouses.
How to Lower Costs by Combining Analytical & Transactional Applications
The holy grail of analytic technologies has long been the promise of predicting future outcomes by analyzing data "as things happen"
It’s a busy time of year
Lots of vendors bring out new releases at this time of year. Here are three of the less obvious but interesting ones in the database/warehousing/analytics space