HP reverts to type30th May 2012Philip Howard After Mike Lynch's resignation and 27,000 job cuts at HP do the company's software products have a future?
Teradata and SAS join forces2nd May 2012Philip Howard Teradata and SAS have jointly launched an appliance. Given their respective positions in the market this is bad news for the competition.
Themes for 201219th December 2011Philip Howard Some thoughts about may happen next year in the information management space
IBM and big data: an introduction10th November 2011Philip Howard IBM probably has the largest portfolio of products covering the big data space
Exasol knocks the spots off15th April 2011Philip Howard Exasol has just published 5 TP-H benchmark records, all the way up to 10Tb
Who will be Snow White?8th March 2011Philip Howard Six of the new generation of warehousing vendors have been acquired. Is there anything useful to conclude about the companies being bought?
HP has another go16th February 2011Philip Howard TDWI annoucements: HP buys Vertica and Kognitio announces Pablo
Bye-bye Neoview?10th December 2010Philip Howard Reports suggest that HP is pulling out of HP. Why am I not surprised?
RainStor partners with Teradata18th November 2010Philip Howard RainStor and Teradata have announced a data retention appliance that could have a significant impact on the market
IBM acquires Netezza22nd September 2010Philip Howard Good news for IBM; bad news for Oracle - why Bob Evans might just be right