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The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Besting a record set by Yahoo in 2009, the research arm of Microsoft have deployed a new technique for quickly sorting large amounts of data, called Flat Datacenter Storage (FDS).
By Joab Jackson | 23 May, 2012 04:56
Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Tuesday.
By Chris Kanaracus | 07 May, 2012 14:06
SAP is hoping to stake out some turf in the predictive analytics software market with a new application, BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis software, which was announced Tuesday.
By Chris Kanaracus | 04 April, 2012 01:52
Sensing a change in the way customers store and analyze data, IBM has updated its flagship DB2 relational database management software to handle a wider range of data processing duties. The company has also updated its InfoSphere data warehouse software.
By Joab Jackson | 03 April, 2012 14:07
As more organizations deploy Hadoop to analyze vast reams of information, they may find they need to transfer large amounts of data between Hadoop and their existing databases, data warehouses and other data stores. Now the volunteer developers behind a new connector designed to speed this data exchange have gotten the full support from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
By Joab Jackson | 03 April, 2012 02:55
For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.
By Joab Jackson | 14 March, 2012 04:04
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