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  Oracle reveals pricing for its SAP HANA rival Exalytics, signaling imminent release

  Oracle made a splash on Tuesday when it announced the general availability of its Big Data Appliance, but the company also quietly released pricing information for Exalytics, another new member in its family of specialized hardware-software appliances and a likely competitor to SAP's HANA product, suggesting that a general-availability announcement for that product is imminent.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 12 January, 2012 08:37

  Tags: applications, Big Data, business intelligence, databases, data warehousing, HANA, hardware systems, in-memory computing, larry ellison, oracle, sap, software

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  Nine data warehousing trends for the CIO

  Gartner has issued the following missive to CIOs: Familiarise yourself with key data warehousing trends and how they will impact the technology deployed to deliver business analytics during 2011 and 2012.

  By Georgina Swan | 09 February, 2011 17:13

  Tags: bi, business analytics, business intelligence, database management systems, Gartner, in-memory computing, in-memory processing

Whitepapers about in-memory computing

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  Watson – A System Designed for Answers: The future of workload optimized systems design

  Watson is the latest IBM Research Grand Challenge, designed to further the science of natural language processing through advances in question and answer technology. This white paper explains Watson’s workload optimized system design, how it’s emblematic of the future of systems design, and why this represents a new computing paradigm.