by Merv Adrian | December 27, 2012 | 6 Comments
I had an inquiry today from a client using packaged software for a business system that is built on a proprietary, non-relational datastore (in this case an object-oriented DBMS.) They have an older version of the product – having “failed” with a recent upgrade attempt. The client contacted me to ask about ways to integrate this [...]
Category: data integration data warehouse DBMS Tags: data integration, data warehouse, federation, virtualization
by Merv Adrian | December 8, 2012 | 7 Comments
At its first re:Invent conference in Late November, Amazon announced Redshift, a new managed service for data warehousing. Amazon also offered details and customer examples that made AWS’ steady inroads toward enterprise, mainstream application acceptance very visible. Redshift is made available via MPP nodes of 2TB (XL) or 16TB (8XL), running the Paraccel PADB high-performance columnar, compressed [...]
Category: Amazon Big Data data warehouse data warehouse appliance DBMS Hadoop MapReduce Tags: Amazon, big data, data warehouse, DynamoDB, MapReduce, Paraccel, Redshift
by Merv Adrian | November 3, 2011 | 6 Comments
Another guest post, this time from my colleague and friend Mark Beyer. My name is Mark Beyer, and I am the “father of the logical data warehouse”. So, what does that mean? First, if like any father, you are not willing to address your ancestry with full candor you will lose your place in the universe and [...]
Category: Big Data data warehouse DBMS Tags: data warehouse
by Merv Adrian | June 23, 2011 | 2 Comments
In the months since IBM closed its Netezza acquisition, the data warehouse appliance pioneer has been busy, if the announcements at this week’s Enzee are any indication. An enthusiastic crowd – 1000 strong – heard CEO Jim Baum deliver the news: new hardware, software and partnerships.The biggest news was The Appliance Formerly Known As Cruiser, [...]
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