Federating Big Data
Cirro has introduced a data federation solution designed for big data. It could give the established vendors a run for their money.
Continuous Business Intelligence and Big Data - Using CEP for real-time continuous queries
There are a lot of start-ups trying to link CEP to Big Data but it is likely that the major vendors will push them out of the way.
Breakthrough and instrumented applications
The sort of data that is common in big data scenarios can be exploited in other ways too
Informix revived
Informix is targeting time-series based (instrumented) applications
Connexica CXAIR
CXAIR is a BI tool that supports queries against both structured and unstructured data
BI for hybrid (big) data
How do you combine structured and unstructured data for query purposes?