Another choice for Hadoop19th January 2012Philip Howard RainStor has just announced support for Hadoop, whereby you can use RainStor partitions within HDFS. This brings a number of advantages.
Governance and Hadoop - Informatica has just released HParser21st November 2011Philip Howard There is a lack of governance around big data: Informatica is the first company (it won't be the last) to introduce a product to address this issue
Breakthrough and instrumented applications16th November 2011Philip Howard The sort of data that is common in big data scenarios can be exploited in other ways too
Informix revived14th November 2011Philip Howard Informix is targeting time-series based (instrumented) applications
What is big data?3rd November 2011Philip Howard The first of a series of articles on big data (What is Hadoop? was a preface).