Paul Maritz Calls for a “Consumer-Grade Enterprise” Platform
Over the past decade, consumer-facing web giants such as Google and Facebook have invested heavily in user data — storing it, analyzing it, and using the insights revealed to rapidly iterate on products. These companies recognized early that user data is a treasure trove, and devoted significant in-house resources to reap its value.
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Flexible Appliances: Conundrum, Oxymoron, or Opportunity?
Some argue that the term “Flexible Appliance” is an oxymoron, often with good reason. Among analytics users, the emergence of preconfigured analytics appliances has been a mixed blessing. While they’re simpler to deploy than build-it-yourself MPP clusters, many appliances force users to trade-off flexibility against simplicity.
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Meet the “Team of Rivals” Building Greenplum HD
When our company was acquired by EMC in July of 2010, we could have easily been scooped up and monetized as a pretty nice data warehousing business for our parent company. They decided to do the opposite. EMC’s leadership believed in our team and our vision for leading the Big Data analytics industry and decided to double down on their investment.
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Managing Hot and Cold Data Using a Unified Storage System
In my previous blog post, “Hadoop and Disparate Data Stores”, I introduced a project Greenplum is working on that abstracts various storage options within an organization under a unified layer referred to as Unified Storage System (USS). The advantage of USS is that it can help with the Tiering of Storage, a concept that has been around for some time, but is unfamiliar to some.
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