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2011

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...

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October 17, 2011

Aster Data helps Teradata embrace Big Data

Despite running the same week as Oracle OpenWorld, Teradata’s annual Partners User Group Conference & Expo on October 2–6 still managed to draw in approximately 3,500 delegates (up from 2010), which made it the largest data warehousing gathering in the world...

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September 21, 2011

Teradata To Unveil New Analytics Product To Speed Business Adoption

Teradata Corp. (TDC) on Thursday plans to unveil new technology that
it says should drive business adoption of analytics, which helps companies sift through massive amounts of information to solve business problems or make predictions...

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August 25, 2011

New tools driving big data analytics, survey finds

New technologies are enabling companies to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on very large and very diverse data sets, an upcoming report from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) shows...

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March 22, 2011

40 Vendors We're Watching in 2011

For our 2011 40 Vendors to Watch list, we rang up our most-trusted columnists and a few selected other sources for input, added our own ideas, did some background work and came up with a list we shaped and pared down to our standard...

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March 10, 2011

The Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies

Venture capitalists are betting that the next Google Inc. or Facebook Inc. will have a name like Xactly, Chegg or Zoosk. Aster helps companies analyze data to understand customer behavior and detect fraud...

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March 04, 2011

Teradata Plays it Smart

You've got a lot of data that won't fit easily into a database. Teradata wants to help you manage it all, and it'll pay hundreds of millions for the privilege. Yesterday, the company announced plans to acquire the 89% of Aster Data Systems it didn't already own...

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March 04, 2011

Aster Data Deal Drives MapReduce Into Teradata's Strategy

It was just a matter of time. Aster Data, one of the most innovative startups in the enterprise data warehousing (EDW) arena, is moving rapidly into the ranks of leading vendors in this hotly competitive space...

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March 03, 2011

Big Pay Day For Big Data

In the old days, big data used to be called data warehousing. But that was when corporations stored all their own data on their own servers...

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March 03, 2011

Teradata Acquisition of Aster Data Systems Bolsters Big Data Capabilities

With the challenge of managing and analyzing big data growing ever-larger, Teradata is acquiring Aster Data Systems, a move analysts say is a good one...

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March 03, 2011

As Teradata Plans
to Buy Aster,
What’s Left?

Data warehousing giant Teradata today agreed to acquire Aster Data, a data analytics provider, proving it's no longer enough to be able to store and access a lot of data quickly...

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January 21, 2011

Twenty Companies to Watch in 2011

As always, the pace of change in the IT world is dizzyingly swift and a lot can happen in a year...

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January 13, 2011

InsightExpress Announces First of Its Kind Ignite Network™

The Ignite Network promises to revolutionize how online and offline media research is conducted...

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January 12, 2011

The Case for
Push-Down Analytics

The challenge is to build analytics on top of the data and get them to work the moment the customer is ready...

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2010

December 01, 2010

Crunching the Numbers
on Big Data

What’s so big about Big Data? It’s probably bigger than you think...

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November 30, 2010

Big Data Behind
Joint Visualization and Analytics Solution

Aster Data, Tableau combo will offer customers more choice, analyst says...

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October 27, 2010

In Praise of Operational
Data Warehousing

The debate over the need for real time BI misses the point. A better way of looking at the issue, argues Philip Russom, senior manager with TDWI Research, is in the context of operational data warehousing...

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October 05, 2010

Aster Data Introduces Advanced MapReduce Analytics on
Column Store DBMS

Aster Data has introduced Aster Data nCluster 4.6, which includes a column data store...

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September 24, 2010

Aster Data Garners $30 Million

With increasing databases and demand for its successful conversion into meaningful rich resources, it is no wonder that...

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September 22, 2010

Aster Data Gets $30 Million in New Funds

Investors are opening up their checkbooks for infrastructure companies with proven track records. Earlier today, cloud...

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September 22, 2010

RightScale, Aster Data Raise Millions in Funding

Today, two already well-funded companies announced new rounds of financing to support the growth...

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September 22, 2010

Aster Data Raises $30M in 3rd Round

San Carlos-based Aster Data said the round included early investor David Cheriton, who previously backed high-growth companies such as Mountain View...

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September 22, 2010

An Interview with Quentin Gallivan

In 2005 when I wrote The Google Legacy, I worked through an interesting Google paper about what is now known as MapReduce...

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September 18, 2010

Research: State Of Enterprise Databases

Our first InformationWeek Analytics State of Database Technology Survey reveals fault lines beneath the critically important...

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September 15, 2010

Aster Announces Hybrid Database

Data management and analytics provider Aster Data today announced the release of nCluster 4.6, a hybrid column/row data store....

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September 15, 2010

Aster Data's Newest Offering Provides Row and Column Functionality for Big Data MPP Analytics

Aster Data has taken big data management and analytics to the next level with the...

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September 15, 2010

Aster Data nCluster Version 4.6

The main thing in Aster Data nCluster Version 4.6 is Aster's version of hybrid row-column store technology. Technical highlights include...

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September 15, 2010

Aster Data Adds Column Data Store to nCluster

Aster Data nCluster 4.6 gains a column data store designed to enhance the querying capabilities of customers dealing with large data...

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September 15, 2010

Aster Data Adds Column Data Store

Aster Data today added support for column data stores alongside existing row stores to help boost the analytics capabilities of its massive parallel processing...

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September 9, 2010

Aster Data Names New CEO

The San Carlos company, which makes data management software, said its founding CEO, Mayank Bawa, has become chief customer officer...

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August 26, 2010

The Need for Speed with Big Data

With the advent of data management frameworks such as Hadoop, there’s has been a general recognition that SQL databases...

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August 24, 2010

8 Big Data Deployments in Detail

What does it take to move into the era of large-scale data analytics? Data warehousing experts from Barnes...

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