Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
April 7, 2014
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: April 7, 2014 . A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Teradata has introduced the Teradata Database 15 with a new software product called Teradata QueryGrid that provides virtual compute capability within and beyond the Teradata Unified Data Architecture. The company also announced Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse 6750 platform with new capabilities to support customers' most demanding real-time workloads.
Windows-upgrade procrastinators, watch out. That's the message coming through from some security experts who estimate that there is a significant portion of business users who still have not moved off Windows XP, despite the fact that patches will no longer be issued. Users have been warned by Microsoft for years now that support for the more-than-decade-old operating system, as well as for Office 2003, would end on April 8, 2014.
InfiniDB has announced the results of a new, independent benchmark from Radiant Advisors that examined the performance of leading open source SQL-on-Hadoop query engines, including InfiniDB for Hadoop 4.0
Splice Machine is the newest member of the more than 800-member Cloudera Connect Partner Program. According to Splice Machine, its technology enables Cloudera users to tap into real-time updates with transactional integrity and standard ANSI SQL, which the company says are necessary features for organizations that are looking to become real-time, data-driven businesses.