Tag: Exadata

What Oracle wants from storage, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Saturday, July 9th 2011

Analyst Blogs

Last year, Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. At the time there was much speculation regarding the future of Sun's server and storage hardware business and I heard a number of well thought out opinions. But two seemed to...

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From IBM Netezza to the human brain, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, September 24th 2010

Analyst Blogs

In a surprise move, IBM is acquiring a business analytics vendor named Netezza. I say "surprise" first because few in my line of work saw this one coming (IBM already has products in this space. Why buy another?), and second...

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