IBM’s SmartCloud now runs SAP HANA
May 27, 2013
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nestor E. Arellano.
A recent upgrade to IBM Corp’s SmartCloud enables the cloud computing product to run copies of SAP AG’s in-memory database platform HANA and provides the Big Blue product with new data analytics features.
SmartCloud will begin using version 10.5 of IBM’s DB2 database by the second half of 2013, according to Bob Picciano, IBM general manager for information management. The infrastructure-as-a-service (laaS) product can now also run copies of HANA although it currently for test and development purposes only…
Other companies also offering cloud computing platforms meant for enterprise-scale data analysis. Among them are EMC and VMware’s subsidiary, Pivotal and Google’s Big Query service. IBM said DB2 is receiving a collection of new technologies called BLU Acceleration which is meant the accelerate data analysis by 25 times or more, Picciano said…
Other companies also offering cloud computing platforms meant for enterprise-scale data analysis. Among them are EMC and VMware’s subsidiary, Pivotal and Google’s Big Query service. IBM said DB2 is receiving a collection of new technologies called BLU Acceleration which is meant the accelerate data analysis by 25 times or more, Picciano said…
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