Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
December 7, 2010
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: December 7, 2010. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Aster Data nCluster 4.6, a massively parallel processing (MPP) analytic database with an integrated analytics engine, offers a unified SQL and SQL-MapReduce analytical framework on a hybrid row and column DBMS that enables advanced reporting and analytics on large data volumes and diverse data types. Tableau 6.0 enables everyone-from enterprises to enterprising individuals-to rapidly access and analyze all their data for smarter and faster business decisions.
DBTA Hadoop Webcast for the Data Intensive Enterprise - December 9 at 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT
eIQnetworks, Inc., a provider of unified situational awareness solutions, announced the launch of ForensicVue, a real-time forensic search engine designed to provide enterprise security analysts with the ability to search every piece of security data on their network. ForensicVue is offered as a component of SecureVue, the vendor's situational awareness platform, and is intended to help organizations rapidly get to the root cause of incidents.
Oracle has announced a world record TPC-C benchmark result for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 on a SPARC Supercluster with SPARC T3-4 servers. In addition to the new world record, Oracle also announced a new service called Gold Support, as well as the SPARC Solaris-based Exalogic Elastic Cloud System, and a complete refresh of the SPARC Enterprise Server product line.
At SAP TechEd 2010 held in Bangalore, India, last week, SAP AG announced availability of the new High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA). According to the company, the SAP in-memory computing engine that resides at the heart of SAP HANA is an integrated database and calculation layer that allows the processing of massive quantities of real-time data in main memory to provide immediate results from analyses and transactions. The engine supports industry standards such as SQL and MDX but also incorporates a high-performance calculation engine that embeds procedural language support directly into the database kernel. This approach, SAP explains, eliminates the need to read data from the database, process it, and then write data back to the database.
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