HP rolls data analysis tools into the cloud
December 2, 2014
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.
The pool of online data analysis services available for corporate users is about to grow larger, with Hewlett-Packard set to offer two of its own products as hosted cloud services by early next year. The company’s high-performance columnar database, Vertica, will be available as a hosted offering starting early in 2015, as HP Vertica OnDemand.
The company will also offer selected functions of its IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer) text processing software as discrete services that can be embedded into mobile and desktop computing applications, in a package called IDOL OnDemand, already available to selected developers…
The new services "are the next significant steps in our big data strategy," said Jeff Veis, HP vice president of marketing for the company’s new big data business unit. The company announced the new offerings at its HP Discover Barcelona conference held this week…
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