posted by Shawn Rogers | March 3, 2011 | 0 Comments
Consolidation in the ADBMS space continues at high speed this morning with the announcement from Teradata that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aster Data Systems. Recent deals in this space include EMC/GreenPlum, HP/Vertica, IBM/Netezza, SAP/Sybase and several years ago Microsoft/DataAllegro. Aster Data is an MPP/columnar based solution that will make an interesting...
Posted in Business Intelligence, Mergers & Acquisitions Tags: ADBMS, Aster Data, Aster Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Teradata, Vertica Systems
posted by Shawn Rogers | February 14, 2011 | 0 Comments
I’ve been pretty tough on HP recently (see post) for a lack of strategy and poor communication around their overall business intelligence offerings. They failed in their attempt to leverage NeoView and up till last week looked to be stepping back into their services and hardware partner role. Recent partner announcements with Microsoft and SAP...
Posted in Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Mergers & Acquisitions Tags: Business intelligence, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, Vertica, Vertica Systems
