SAP HANA (High Performance Analytics Appliance) is the powerful in-memory database technology from German enterprise software powerhouse SAP. Now HP and IBM are rolling out new solutions to help customers leverage HANA in big data analysis.
WalmartLabs makes two acquisitions to further its eCommerce strategies, Hortonworks launches its Hadoop Data Platform for Windows, and visualization company Tableau Software announces its initial public offering.
The National Security Agency (NSA) finds itself facing millions of dollars in taxes on the electricity usage in its Utah data center as a result of a new law passed by state legislators, according to local media reports.
Cloud service provider Latisys is offering disaster recovery as a monthly service (or DRaaS). The portfolio of DRaaS solutions ranges from simple offsite data backup to near-instantaneous continuous availability (geoclustering) services.
News from the worlds of big data, databases and data analytics includes announcements by Cloudera and Splunk, investment madeinto Clustrix and Terradata Analytics finished a deployment for a large retailer.
Teradata (TDC) introduced Intelligent Memory, a new database technology that creates extended memory space beyond cache that significantly increases query performance and enables organizations to leverage in-memory technologies with big, diverse...
Cloudera announced the general availability of Cloudera Impala, an open source, interactive SQL query engine for analyzing data stored in Hadoop clusters in real time.
The company held a grand opening and ribbon cutting for its continuous transformational environment (CTE) lab at its Richmond data center, where it hopes to advance federal cloud technologies going forward.