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Monday, 20 September 2010
Netezza Acquired by IBM
Netezza, the data warehousing appliance maker, has been acquired by IBM for approximately $1.7 billion. While I haven’t covered Netezza before, this acquisition is interesting from the perspective of the BigData market.
Update: Daniel Abadi wrote ☞ here about a possible Netezza acquisition by IBM over an year ago.
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Original title and link: Netezza Acquired by IBM (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
MySpace and Big Data
As you can imagine MySpace has to deal with huge amounts of data too, but they are doing it differently:
In its search for new data warehousing technology, the company evaluated technology from vendors including Teradata and Netezza. However, says Watters, “we didn’t think any of it could scale according to our needs.”
Instead it turned to Aster Data, whose “massively parallel” database technology is based on Google’s MapReduce distributed analytics engine
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