BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, ‘extreme’ BI, virtualization and cloud computing
2 Oct 2008 5:50pm GMT I think that Oracle is going to have a cloud offering, IBM is going to have a cloud offering, Sun is going to have a cloud offering, and it's going to be the big talk in the big industry over the next two or three years. I think they are just going to get out there and fight it out.
Improved insights and analysis from IT systems logs helps reduce complexity risks from virtualization
30 Sep 2008 11:15pm GMT We seem to be at a tipping point in terms of everyone doing virtualization, or wanting to do it, or wanting to do even more. IT managers experimenting with virtualization are seeking to reduce costs, to improve the efficiency in use of their assets, or for using virtualization to address the issues they might have with energy cost, energy capacity or sometimes even space capacity in the data center. But the paybacks from virtualization can be lost or mitigated when management and complexity are...
Oracle and HP explain history, role and future for new Exadata Server and Database Machine
29 Sep 2008 6:33pm GMT Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison caught the Oracle OpenWorld conference audience by surprise the day before by rolling out the Exadata line of two hardware-software configurations. The integrated servers re-architect the relationship between Oracle's 11g database and high-performance storage. Exadata, in essence, gives new meaning to "attached" storage for Oracle databases. It mimics the close pairing of data and logic execution that such cloud providers as Google use with MapReduce...
Greenplum pushes envelope with MapReduce and parallelism enhancements to its extreme-scale data offering
29 Sep 2008 1:50pm GMT It seems that data infrastructure vendors are rushing to the realization that older database architectures have hit a wall in terms of scale and performance. The general solution favors exploiting parallelism to the hilt and aligning database and logic functions in close proximity, while also exploiting MapReduce approaches to provide super-scale data delivery and analytics performance.
Interview: From OpenWorld, HP’s John Santaferraro on latest BI Modernization strategies
25 Sep 2008 7:15pm GMT Now that the optimized hardware and software are available to produce the means to analyze and query huge data sets in near real-time, the focus moves to how to best leverage these capabilities. Soon, business executives will have among the most powerful IT tools ever developed at their disposal to deeply and widely analyze vast seas of data and content in near real time to help them run their business better, and to steer clear of risks.