August 14th, 2013 — Data management
DBaaS drives next-generation database growth. CSC acquires Infochimps. And more
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November 13th, 2012 — Data management
Platfora raises $20m. IBM trumpets ‘integration anywhere’. And more
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November 7th, 2012 — Data management
Microsoft launches Hekaton, PolyBase. Appcelerator acquires Nodeable. And more
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October 29th, 2012 — Data management
Cloudera launches Impala. Actuate snags Quiterian. Microsoft previews HDInsight.
And the rest:
– Microsoft previewed its Windows Azure HDInsight Service and Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows.
– SAP launched a new “big data” bundle and go-to-market strategy.
– Informatica introduced Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition and reported its third quarter results.
– Also announcing financial results last week were QlikTech and Pervasive.
– Teradata updated its Unity suite with the addition of Unity Loader, and introduced its Unified Data Environment and the Unified Data Architecture.
– Splunk confirmed the release of Splunk Hadoop Connect and the Splunk App for HadoopOps.
– 10gen added five vice presidents to its management team.
– Rackspace partnered with Hortonworks to create OpenStack and Hadoop-based offerings for public and private cloud.
– Talend added support for Cassandra, HBase and MongoDB , and introduced big data profiling for Apache Hadoop to its integration platform
– MarkLogic announced support for HDFS and expanded its relationship with Hortonworks.
– Kognitio adopted a free licensing model.
– Calpont launched InfiniDB 3.5.
– MetaMarkets announced that it is open sourcing its Druid streaming, real-time data store.
– YarcData updated its uRiKA Big Data appliance for graph analytics.
– Alpine Data Labs announced a global OEM partnership with QlikTech.
– Actian and Attunity announced Attunity Replicate for Actian Vectorwise.
And that’s the Data Day, today.
August 10th, 2012 — Data management
HP’s Autonomy problem. Excel 2013. And more.
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August 10th, 2012 — Data management
Back in December we published an assessment on the distribution of Hadoop skills, based on LinkedIn search results.
Thanks to a temporary lull in GB’s Olympic medal-winning exploits I ran the search again the other day. The results are pretty interesting for a number of reasons.
First the headline stats:
- There are over 22,000 people with Hadoop in their LinkedIn profiles, up from just over 9,000 in December 2011, an increase of over 144% in eight months.
- Hadoop skills are becoming more evenly distributed: 60.4% of LinkedIn members with Hadoop in the profiles are based in the US, compared to 64.5% in December 2011.
- Growth areas include India (11.9% from 9.7%), China (4.4% from 3.6%, and the UK (3.4% from 3.0%).
- However, the Bay Area remains the best place to find Hadoop enthusiasts, with 24.9% (albeit down from 28.2% eight months ago)
This time I also ran a similar search for MapReduce skills. The headline results:
- MapReduce is mentioned in 6,424 LinkedIn profiles.
- MapReduce skills are more evenly distributed: 61.9% of LinkedIn members with MapReduce in their profiles are based in the US, 38.1% in the rest of the world.
- That said, over a quarter (25.9%) of LinkedIn members with MapReduce in their profiles are based in the Bay area.
- Other geographic hotspots are India (8.7%), Seattle area (5.8%), and NYC area (4.8%).
This time I also looked at which vendors are listed as the current employers of LinkedIn members citing Hadoop and MapReduce. One really surprising result stood out:
- Microsoft is the second largest employer of both Hadoop and MapReduce skills, according to LinkedIn member profiles
- Redmond employs 1.7% of all LinkedIn members with Hadoop in their profiles, and 3.0% of members with MapReduce in their profiles
- Yahoo is the largest employer of Hadoop skills (2.9%), with other ‘non-vendors’ also well represented: Google (1.3%), eBay (also 1.3%), Amazon (1.2%), LinkedIn (1.1%).
- Google is by far the largest employer of MapReduce skills, as you might expect, with 7.1%. Also well represented are Yahoo (2.7%), Amazon (1.8%) and LinkedIn (1.4%).
April 19th, 2012 — Data management
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March 13th, 2012 — Data management
March 8th, 2012 — Data management
Microsoft launches SQL Server 2012. MapR integrates with Informatica. And more.
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* Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2012 to Help Customers Manage “Any Data, Any Size, Anywhere”
* SQL Server 2012 Released to Manufacturing
* SAS Access to Hadoop Links Leading Analytics, Big Data
* MapR And Informatica Announce Joint Support To Deliver High Performance Big Data Integration And Analysis
* Teradata Expands Integrated Analytics Portfolio
* New Teradata Platform Reshapes Business Intelligence Industry
* Microsoft’s Trinity: A graph database with web-scale potential
* KXEN Announces Availability of InfiniteInsight Version 6, a Predictive Analytics Solution with Unprecedented Agility, Productivity, and Ease of Use
* Software AG Announces its Strategy for the In-memory Management of Big Data
* Attunity and Hortonworks Announce Partnership to Simplify Big Data Integration with Apache Hadoop
* Schooner Information Technology and Ispirer Systems Partner to Deliver SQLWays for SchoonerSQL
* Big Data & Search-Based Applications
* Namenode HA Reaches a Major Milestone
* How Twitter is doing its part to democratize big data
* Dropping Prices Again– EC2, RDS, EMR and ElastiCache
* For 451 Research clients
# SAS outlines Hadoop strategy, previews Hadoop-based in-memory analytics Market Development report
# Pervasive rides the elephant into ‘big data’ predictive analytics Market Development report
# IBM makes desktop discovery and analysis play, shares business analytics priorities Market Development report
# Clustrix launches SDK to tap developer interest in new databases Market Development report
# Continuent and SkySQL team up for clustered MySQL support Analyst note
# MapR gets a boost from Cisco and Informatica Analyst note
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