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November 06, 2011

Can MapReduce Be Made Easy?

Companies such as Aster Data have emerged because the central challenge around data has
changed — it’s no longer data that
has to scale; it’s analytics. Once we accept this paradigm, it’s easy to see why a company like Teradata, which has been scaling techniques for acccumulating and storing data for decades, would be interested in a company like Aster Data...

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October 18, 2011

InformationWeek Names Top 12
Big Data Analytics Players

Teradata recently announced plans for an Aster Data MapReduce appliance to be built on the same hardware as the Teradata appliance. It also added two-way integration between the Teradata and Aster Data databases. By buying Aster Data, Teradata has broadened what is widely regarded as the broadest, deepest, and most scalable family of products available in the data warehousing industry...

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