Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
April 5, 2016
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: April 5, 2016. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Oracle Exadata X6 Database Machine Boosts Performance, Capacity, and OLTP
Sisense has announced improvements in its In-Chip Analytics software to help business users and data analysts more easily gain insights from complex data with disparate datasets. According to the vendor, when tested with Intel's recently-released 6th Generation Intel Core vPro processor, it was able to deliver a 300% improvement in speed over older chips.
Splunk Inc., a provider operational intelligence solutions, is introducing a new version of its enterprise platform along with a new cloud offering. "We've optimized storage costs for long-term data retention. This will allow customers to keep data in Splunk for much longer periods of time and reduce their storage costs for that data," said Shay Mowlem, vice president of product marketing and management.