CSC, a provider of IT services and solutions has acquired Infochimps, a provider of big data platform-as-a-service for enterprise businesses. CSC says the addition of Infochimps’ team will accelerate the development of CSC’s data services platform, enabling CSC to quickly scale its big data business and offering customers as-a-service access to advanced data analytics.
Infochimps Cloud for Big Data is comprised of three cloud services which offer real-time processing and streaming, batch Hadoop, and ad hoc queries for actionable analytics. It is deployed in hybrid, private, virtual private and/or public cloud environments.
“This acquisition aligns directly with CSC’s focus on next-generation technology solutions and services,” said Sashi Reddi, CSC’s vice president and general manager for Big Data and Analytics. “Infochimps’ expertise in building industrial-strength data platforms on open source technologies will advance CSC’s big data capabilities significantly.”
This marks CSC's second acquisition of a big data company, as CSC continues to execute its strategy of building out a complete big data solution set that enables enterprise and government customers to benefit immediately from big data analytics.
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