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Semil Shah
March 20th, 2011

Big Data Needs To Think Bigger

Spend enough time in Silicon Valley, and of all the buzz words you’ll hear neatly tucked in with “graph,” “serendipity,” and “personalization” is one often uttered though, on the whole, not yet fully understood: “Big Data.” On the surface, everyone realizes the opportunity. Data is being generated at lightning speed, the cost of storing is tiny, and new technologies are available… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
March 3rd, 2011

Big Pay Day For Big Data. Teradata Buys Aster Data For $263 Million

In the old days, big data used to be called data warehousing. But that was when corporations stored all their own data on their own servers. Today, it’s just called big data and it generally refers to the vast reaches of data in the cloud. Old big data is buying new big data today, as data warehousing powerhouse Teradata just announced it will be acquiring Aster Data Systems for $263… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
March 3rd, 2011

Big Pay Day For Big Data. Teradata Buys Aster Data For $263 Million

In the old days, big data used to be called data warehousing. But that was when corporations stored all their own data on their own servers. Today, it’s just called big data and it generally refers to the vast reaches of data in the cloud. Old big data is buying new big data today, as data warehousing powerhouse Teradata just announced it will be acquiring Aster Data Systems for $263… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
May 19th, 2008

Google Backers Back Aster Data Systems. It's All About The Clusters.

Clusters are the way to go. Google and Yahoo run their Websites on distributed databases spread across vast clusters of servers. Now Aster Data Systems, a startup that is coming out of stealth mode today, is offering a clustered database for Web analytics to any large website. One of its first big customers is MySpace, which is running the database on a cluster of 100 server nodes to analyze what… → Read More