Actian acquires ParAccel
Fresh off its acquisition of Pervasive Software completed two weeks ago, CA spin-off Actian acquires MPP Data Warehouse player ParAccel, whose technology powers Amazon Redshift.
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Veteran data geek Andrew Brust covers Big Data technologies including Hadoop, NoSQL, Data Warehousing, BI and Predictive Analytics.
Andrew Brust
Andrew J. Brust has worked in the software industry for 25 years as a developer, consultant, entrepreneur and CTO, specializing in application development, databases and business intelligence technology.
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High-density cloud databases: NuoDB + Moonshot
NewSQL vendor NuoDB says it can run 7,200 active databases on one HP Moonshot system. Add in temporarily dormant databases, and the density increases significantly.
With GeoFlow, Microsoft doubles-down on analytics in Excel
At the PASS Business Analytics Conference in Chicago, Microsoft announces a public preview of GeoFlow and pumps Excel as the hub for data discovery.
Does it matter if your SQL is bad?
IBM Introduces its new BLU architecture, continuing the convergence of relational, columnar, distributed, and variant schema database approaches.
Tableau files for IPO
Data exploration and visualization darling Tableau has filed for initial public offering
MapR, Canonical bring Hadoop to Ubuntu
Linux and Hadoop vendors make Ubuntu-integrated MapR M3 available for download.
Platfora goes GA, asking BI and Big Data to say "I do."
Platfora releases its BI for Big Data product to general availability, eschewing Hive and hand-coded MapReduce, while embracing in-memory queries.
Tibco Spotfire 5.5 adds enterprise predictive analytics and more remote query capabilities
Tibco's data exploration tool also adds new visualizations, a free developer edition of its R runtime, nipping at Tableau and QlikTech's heels.
Sports analytics: How 'Moneyball' meets big data (gallery)
Bill James and Billy Beane have led the way for sports teams to make strategic decisions based on analyzing data rather than watching the actual games or players.
Health sciences M&A: IMS acquires Appature
Merger combines long-standing curated Big Data resources with recent-vintage cloud-based Big Data analytics platform to help life sciences companies market in a new era.