It’s been a long time coming but Calpont has finally come to market with InfiniDB. Actually, it launched the open source Community Edition of the product last year but now it is introducing the commercial Enterprise Edition. There is,...

You often hear security officers, not to mention vendors, talk about fraud detection and prevention but you seldom (never in my experience) hear anyone talking about Bribery. However, in the wake of BAE Systems settlement with the both the...

Last week I attended an Informatica analyst event. There was a lot to digest but here are some highlights. To begin with, the company talked about its acquisition of Siperian. I have already commented on this but one point that emerged at the...

Releases come thick and fast during TDWI. One of the more interesting announcements this week is Aster Data nCluster version 4.5. Aster Data's mission is to support what it calls big data analytics. It initially addressed this need through support...

Vertica, along with various other companies, has made a major announcement at this week's TDWI, namely with respect to Vertica 4.0. This is a major release by any measure with the product being in beta today and general availability scheduled for...

As usual at TDWI there are a series of announcements from major vendors. Not least of this year's releases has been the introduction of the Netezza TwinFin iClass, which follows on from last month's announcement of the Netezza Skimmer (a Skimboard...

Along with new releases from lots of data warehousing vendors, TDWI has also seen in the formal announcement of the DataFlux Data Management Platform which was previously known as the Unity project. As the codename suggests this sees the...