Is Big Data the Next Big Brother?

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With the rise of big data, the notion of the Big Brother is becoming more and more of a theoretical possibility.  Thanks to the proliferation of social applications, websites and the use of the Internet, we have opened the door to a new realm of data and companies are finding ways to extract business value from the digital footprint you and I are leaving. While some view this as negative and intrusive, is it really such a bad thing considering it also allows us to get what we want, when we want it and even helps us predict things [...] Continue Reading…

Actian to Present at Jasperworld Conference 2012

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This year’s JasperWorld conference kicked off yesterday on September 25, and we at Actian are happy to be a Platinum Sponsor at the event. If you’re attending, take some time to come visit us at the Parc55 Wyndham Hotel in San Francisco’s Union Square. Jasperworld 2012 promises to be an exciting, informational and valuable event, and we’re happy to partner with the folks at Jaspersoft in their continued success.

This morning, I will be addressing the General Session on the topic of “Real Time Analytics without Breaking the Bank.” I’ll look at the way businesses are using Vectorwise to create [...] Continue Reading…

Analyzing Data in the Cloud

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In today’s business climate, nothing is more vital to the success of data driven companies and online service providers than timely information, and the right tools to act on it immediately to achieve profitability, productivity, and provide great support for customers. Recognizing these points, Zoho has chosen Vectorwise to power Zoho Reports, their online reporting and business intelligence (BI) service.

When existing traditional relational databases lacked the capability to provide the desired query performance, Zoho was forced to undertake an evaluation process of analytical databases that offered ease-of-use, coupled with the affordability to manage big data. Zoho selected Vectorwise after [...] Continue Reading…

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Introducing Vectorwise 2.5 – The Fast Just Got Faster

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Last week, Actian announced the new release of their record-breaking performance database, Vectorwise 2.5, now even more well-equipped to tackle Big Data. Delivering better manageability and faster performance, the new version will help companies realize the value of their data and execute on business opportunities in real time.

Meet Vectorwise

In case you’re hearing about Vectorwise for the first time, Vectorwise is Actian’s record-breaking performance database that helps organizations take action on Big Data. Released almost two years ago, the database has made tremendous progress in helping businesses gain new insights and drive operational efficiencies. As the business world developed data [...] Continue Reading…

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Dell Announces Another Set of Benchmark Records with Vectorwise

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Dell announced a set of records for the TPC-H benchmarks today: http://dell.to/R720-TPCH

Naturally, Actian is delighted to work with Dell to establish new bests in performance (QphH) and price-performance ($/QphH) for this industry-recognized benchmark at scale factors of 100GB and 300GB on the Dell R720.

If your company has a need to take smart action on big data, take a look at Vectorwise. Visit our news section, where a number of our customers and partners have shared stories of their experience with Vectorwise including descriptions of the benefits of the performance gains and affordability of Vectorwise, and how it is the ideal data [...] Continue Reading…

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Why We’re So Excited About Intel’s Xeon E5: Pumping Up The Speed!

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Last week, Intel formerly unveiled its Xeon E5 processor. With a host of new features and performance that’s speculated to be much, much faster than Intel’s previous processors, excitement over the E5 is palpable. So what does it mean for us?

For our customers, this means Vectorwise’s already outstanding performance will continue to blow away the competition, providing awesome insight into big data while still remaining affordable.

We have been a part of Intel’s journey from the start. With Vectorwise, we were the first company to take advantage of Intel’s advanced chip capabilities in a relational database. We’ve proven time after [...] Continue Reading…

MicroStrategy World 2012 – Illuminating This Year’s Top BI Trends

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Starting Monday I am at MicroStrategy World in Miami. It will be great to get a chance to connect with attendees on hot topics like mobile business intelligence, cloud, and Big Data, one of the major trends of 2012.

MicroStrategy is the gold standard of business intelligence software, and its annual conference is an important event in the BI world – it highlights the most pressing issues and gives attendees the power to stay in front of the latest industry trends and technologies. There are more great sessions than I can possibly attend, but a few that I’ll be sure [...] Continue Reading…

An Even Faster Vectorwise

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Vectorwise 2.0 is available for download! Vectorwise’s record-breaking performance is now faster, easier to use, and includes richer Analytical capabilities.

Even faster: Load data and run queries faster than ever before. New fast load utility vwload helps make loading data faster and easier with direct loads into Vectorwise tables. Vectorwise’s record breaking performance is now faster and more efficient with new Partitioned Aggregate Functions that allow users to run multiple aggregations on subsets of data in a single query.

More Analytical & Data Features: Additional analytical functions make percentile and ranking queries faster and easier. New data and time features make [...] Continue Reading…

Visualizing Big Data

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As Big Data becomes a reality for more and more organizations and as the variety of data that they need to work with becomes more complex, it is increasingly hard for end-users to keep pace using traditional reporting and query tools. The explosion in volume and complexity of data had led to new techniques being applied to how data is presented and explored and one of the key techniques is data visualization.

 Leveraging presentation techniques and exploration methods originally developed for scientific and engineering visualization, companies like Tableau Software have now made visualization accessible, understandable and affordable for companies of [...] Continue Reading…

Fast and Easy BI

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As part of our research into Actian Action Apps, we’ve spent a lot of time talking with BI users and industry analysts to understand their views on what’s wrong with BI and, specifically, what are the obstacles to wider adoption of BI by business users. We’ve consistently heard the same things over and over:

 

BI takes too long to deploy – from identifying a business need through justifying, acquiring, installing, designing, developing, testing and finally deploying a BI project is quite simply too long for most business users
BI is too slow – the average response time on the average BI [...] Continue Reading…