Tag: Netezza

Shared Storage in a Shared Nothing Environment — Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, February 9th 2011

Analyst Blogs

The computing industry is seeing dramatic growth in the use of "shared nothing" database architectures where each node functions independently of one another and is self-sufficient (Hadoop Distributed File System for example). For the sake of performance, contention among nodes...

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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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