Wrong Story... wuz RE: Press release
Geez, I thought you would have commented on this story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/19/ibm_hadoop_distro/ IBM punts commercial Hadoop distro Here's a quote from our favorite marketing man who constantly puts his foot in his mouth... "Bernie Spang, director of product strategy for database software and systems at IBM, says that the company needs Hadoop to complete its data analytics hat trick. IBM has traditional data warehousing and predictive analytics in its InfoSphere" and ... "Spang says that IBM needs to offer a product that does the "big data" crunching that the Googles of the world do because its own customers have loads of structured and unstructured data that can be sucked into a Hadoop file system and chewed on using MapReduce for a wider, finer-grained, and more long-term analysis than can be done with a data warehouse or stream system." and then this ... IBM could have just done the easy thing and partnered with Cloudera, which back in March 2009 launched a commercialized version of the Hadoop Distributed File System, the MapReduce parallelization and data-crunching algorithm to chew on Webby data, and the Hive client library associated with Hadoop. But Big Data is important enough that IBM feels compelled to offer its own distro. Now just FYI... Mike Olsen is the CEO of Cloudera. Those who don't know, Mike Olsen was part of Stonebraker's crew back in the Illustra days. And did spend some time within Informix. As to IBM's implementation... It will go over like a lead balloon. I wonder who from the lab is going to get in and donate time to Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, etc. Also I wonder what's their support model. Cloudera's isn't perfect, but for the licensing costs, they're in the right ball park for what they offer. But hey! What do I know? I'm just a guy, who happens to have both of Cloudera's certifications (Administrator, and Developer). ;-) And you want to build a multi TB DW in a short time span, ask me how. :-P -G PS, I'd say more, but I just pulled an all nighter and I have to head over to the CHUG (CHicago area Hadoop User Group) meeting tonight. > Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 12:46:33 +0100 > From: obnoxio@serendipita.com > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Press release > > Informix gets on the "smarter planet" bandwagon thanks to an IBM UK > partner: > http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/ibm-teams-with-hildebrand-to,1306545.shtml > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1