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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

More on IBM and Netezza

O'Reilly has more on the acquisition of Netezza by IBM. In particular about the implications of its use for big data. " ... t's not just the marketers that are throwing petabytes of information at problems. Scientists, intelligence analysts, governments, meteorologists, air traffic controllers, architects, civil engineers-nearly every industry or profession is touched by the era of big data. Add to that the fact that the democratization of IT has made everyone a (sort of) data expert, familiar with searches and queries, and we're seeing a huge burst of interest in big data..... "

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