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IBM Releases Big Data Software On SmartCloud; Cognos for iPad

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

On Monday, IBM announced the release of the Infosphere BigInsights application for analyzing massive volumes of structured and unstructured data on its SmartCloud environment. The SmartCloud release of IBM’s BigInsights application means that IBM beat competitors Oracle and Microsoft in … Continue reading →

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Oracle Continues Big Data Push With Endeca Acquisition

Posted on October 23, 2011 by

On Tuesday, Oracle announced plans to acquire Big Data player Endeca just weeks after unveiling its Big Data appliance featuring Apache Hadoop and an Oracle NoSQL Database. Endeca’s proprietary MDEX technology powers two products: (1) Endeca InFront; and (2) Endeca … Continue reading →

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Battle for Big Data Heats Up As Microsoft and Oracle Announce Hadoop-based Products

Posted on October 16, 2011 by

The battle for market share in the big data space is officially underway, with passion. At last week’s Professional Association for SQL Server Summit (PASS), Microsoft announced plans to develop a platform for big data processing and analytics based on … Continue reading →

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Red Hat Acquires Gluster for $136 Million In Cash

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

Red Hat, provider of open source enterprise software solutions, announced Tuesday that it had reached a deal to acquire the online storage company Gluster for $136 million. Gluster was founded in 2005 with the objective of objective of leveraging open … Continue reading →

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