New technologies are enabling companies to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on very large and very diverse data sets, an upcoming report from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) shows. The report is based on responses from 325 IT managers, business users and consultants at small, medium and large companies. Slightly more than a third of the respondents said they are currently running some ...

The potential of “big data,” the massive explosion of sources of information from sensors, smart devices, and all other devices connected to the Internet, is probably under-appreciated in terms of its eventual business impact. However, to take maximum advantage of big data, IT is going to have to press the re-start button on its architecture for acquiring and understanding information. IT will need to const ...

Earlier this week, Heroku, the PaaS player Salesforce acquired during last year’s Dreamforce, announced a major new release Celadon Cedar adding some powerful features targeting enterprise customers. They also announced full Node.js support and added Ruby 1.9.2 support. Some of the features include: New process model with support for background processes Procfiles for having a fine grained control over the ...

The Evolving Role of the Enterprise Data Warehouse in the Era of Big Data Analytics A white paper by Dr. Ralph Kimball The enterprise data warehouse (EDW) community has entered a new realm of meeting new and growing business requirements in the era of “Big Data.” A few of the common challenges include: extreme integration, semi- and un-structured data sources, petabytes of behavioral and image data accessed ...

Hot Platform-as-a-Service startup DotCloud is acquiring fellow PaaS startup Duostack in an attempt to gird itself for a fight that’s likely to leave some casualties in the years to come. With PaaS startups proliferating and large vendors such as VMware, Red Hat, Microsoft and Salesforce.com already in the game, DotCloud and Duostack are making a smart move to ensure their mutual survival while combining the ...

As Big Data and real-time insights are becoming significant for enterprises around the world, we can see a lot of developments going around in this domain. Recently, IBM unveiled new software and services to help clients more effectively gain competitive insight, optimize infrastructure and better manage resources to address Internet-scale data. The company has announced a whopping investment of $100 millio ...

We are very excited to share with you that today we announced our company, Aster Data, is being acquired by Teradata, who as you all know commands the #1 position in data warehousing. Together, we will tackle the massive opportunity in the big data and big data analytics market. Upon close, Aster Data will become part of the Teradata organization and our products will become part of the Teradata family of p ...

There is a lot of buzz around Big Data and the NOSQL movement these days and rightly so. The issues with data have essentially been two-fold: find cost effective ways to store ever increasing amounts of data and information, and find ways to mine this information to extract meaningful Business Intelligence. This problem has been compounded by the emergence of web 2.0 technologies whose legion of loyal fans ...

What’s so big about Big Data? It’s probably bigger than you think. For some time now, the specialty data warehouse (DW) has been a technology proposition in search of a market. DW appliance pioneer Netezza Inc. -- acquired by IBM Corp. in mid-2010 -- hemorrhaged cash for the first few years of its existence. (Netezza enjoyed its first yearly profit 18 months after its IPO.) Ditto for DATAllegro Corp., which ...

The recent economic downturn took a lot of companies by surprise. As a result, many business executives want more information than ever in order to be certain they are making the right decisions. However, a survey of 543 business and IT executives, commissioned by the IT services firm Avanade, finds that business executives are also drowning in data. So the issue is not necessarily gathering more data, but ...