Comments on: Big Data Means Big Sales: IBM to Buy Netezza for $1.7B http://gigaom.com/2010/09/20/ibm-to-buy-netezza-for-1-7-billion/ Sat, 25 May 2013 04:40:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: After a Big Quarter, Dell Should Make a Big Data Buy: Cloud Computing News « http://gigaom.com/2010/09/20/ibm-to-buy-netezza-for-1-7-billion/#comment-594465 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:30:57 +0000 http://cloud.gigaom.com/?p=852#comment-594465 [...] at the least, having a product that can provide advanced analytics against huge amounts of data. IBM, HP and Dell-partner-turned-enemy EMC all purchased massively parallel data warehouse vendors [...]

]]> By: Is the End Nigh for Database Appliances?: Cloud Computing News « http://gigaom.com/2010/09/20/ibm-to-buy-netezza-for-1-7-billion/#comment-584689 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:41:15 +0000 http://cloud.gigaom.com/?p=852#comment-584689 [...] claims it’s making a killing with its Exadata Database Machines, and Teradata and Netezza (now owned by IBM) are doing just fine, as well. Even EMC decided to get into the appliance game upon acquiring [...]

]]> By: Is Cloudera Allying Its Way to an Acquisition?: Cloud « http://gigaom.com/2010/09/20/ibm-to-buy-netezza-for-1-7-billion/#comment-303025 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:13:01 +0000 http://cloud.gigaom.com/?p=852#comment-303025 [...] Greenplum had been in the works since the spring (months before EMC bought Greenplum in July), and IBM bought Netezza a mere two months after the Cloudera-Netezza partnership was announced. If analysts’ predictions [...]

]]> By: Dan Fonseca http://gigaom.com/2010/09/20/ibm-to-buy-netezza-for-1-7-billion/#comment-303024 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:59:49 +0000 http://cloud.gigaom.com/?p=852#comment-303024 IBM’s smarter planet campaign is the future of data. Metadata will be vital and they are laying down the foundation! I’m excited to see where it goes.

I recently did a blog post on this very topic!

http://danfonseca.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/the-internet-of-things/

thoughts?

http://www.danfonseca.wordpress.com

-Dan

]]> By: datapixel http://gigaom.com/2010/09/20/ibm-to-buy-netezza-for-1-7-billion/#comment-303023 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:24:50 +0000 http://cloud.gigaom.com/?p=852#comment-303023 Couldn’t agree more. Shows how serious IBM takes data with this and their other key acquisition’s in the recent past – SPSS, RedPill, CoreMetrics.

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