In-memory analytics, and databases, are reaching a disruptive tipping point. Why? Why now? How can enterprise IT put them to use effectively? If you are looking for the coolest IT trend for 2012, and a hot topic within that, it is an easy bet that ‘Big Data’ and ‘In-memory Analytics/DBs’ respectively could vie for the honors. By the same token, with any such attention and momentum comes a level of skepticis ...

Forrester published its first-ever Wave report for the emerging Hadoop market late last week and the results were surprising, both in terms of the "leaders wave" assessment and the absence of big vendors, including Microsoft, Oracle, and Teradata. The first surprise in "The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Hadoop Solutions, Q1 2012" report is that it includes such a wide variety of vendors. In the "leaders" wave ...

The cloud computing world has been anxious to hear former NASA CTO Chris Kemp’s plans since he left his post in the spring to pursue a startup venture, and on Wednesday morning, he introduced his new company, Nebula. It’s selling an OpenStack-based appliance for managing scale-out cloud deployments, and is backed by premier talent and investors. Nebula isn’t disclosing how much it has raised, but Co-Founder ...

iTunes in the cloud. We all know it’s coming, it’s just a question of when, and with what capabilities? A story from Boy Genius Report today appears to answer at least one of those questions, and vaguely answers the other. If BGR’s “reliable” Apple source is to be believed, Apple’s iTunes cloud strategy will consist of three parts: 1) Streaming content from Apple’s servers to your devices 2) Streaming conte ...

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 ...

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 ...

HP has just announced that it has acquired data management company Vertica. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011, were not disclosed. Vertica, which has raised $30.5 million in funding, develops data management solutions for storing and querying databases. Its products include The Vertica Analytic Database, which helps in analyzing data; Vertica for the Cloud, a cloud- ...

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 ...

I always get a kick out of it when people refer to data centers as this big warehouse of “data storage” and nothing else. I suppose it helps some people relate to what is on all of those computers residing inside. As much as readers here know that there is much more to the data center than just the data — the data is what is being protected and provided for within. The amount of data stored within devices i ...

We wonder if Ray Ozzie ever thought that he would someday looking from Microsoft's executive suite to see IBM release his Lotus Notes creation into the cloud. That's what IBM did today. Lotus Notes is now as much a cloud platform as it has ever been with a set of new features that have traditionally only been available on-premise. Before we dive into the details of the news, let's look at Lotus Notes from a ...