EMC intros 'Big Data' computing system

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introduced the new EMC Greenplum
data computing appliance, an integrated data warehouse system, using
the breakthrough Greenplum massively parallel processing (MPP)
architecture. It enables organizations to more efficiently make sense
of the massive amounts of data they generate from various sources
such as always-on networks, Web, consumers, surveillance systems and
sensors.

The system was developed and shipped
just 75 days following EMC's acquisition of Greenplum and comes at
a time when IDC predicts that the amount of data over the next decade
will grow 44-fold. The disruptive data warehousing technology from
Greenplum is a key enabler of 'Big Data' clouds and self-service
analytics, allowing organizations to store, manage and closely
analyze terabytes of detailed data for faster business insight,
conclusions and revelations. Greenplum is the foundation of EMC's
new Data Computing Products Division, which is developing the
analytic tools to address the 'Big Data' phenomenon. “As an early
Greenplum customer, we are impressed with EMC's integration and
expansion of the Greenplum product line,” said Steve Hirsch, Chief
Data Officer and Senior VP-Global Data Services, NYSE Euronext.
“The new appliance gives us greater flexibility in how we approach
our ever-growing needs to apply sophisticated analytics to big data,”
added Hirsch.

The new EMC Greenplum Data Computing
Appliance is built using Greenplum Database 4.0. Its innovative,
parallel-everything architecture delivers data loading performance of
10 terabytes (TB) an hour. “The amount of data that businesses have
at their disposal is greater than ever before and new tools are
required to gain business insight from it,” said Bill Teuber, Vice
Chairman, EMC. As a purpose-built, parallel system, the EMC Greenplum
data computing appliance offers up to 3x more scalability and up to
4x as many database cores than competitive systems for a good
price/performance ratio. It is available in flexible half-rack,
full-rack, and multiple-rack appliance configurations for terabyte to
petabyte-scale requirements. It is integrated with EMC's
replication, backup and recovery for information protection. “EMC
and Greenplum represent a natural and powerful combination,” said
Scott McNealy, Executive Advisor-Data Computing Products Division,
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is a major infrastructure player with data large and
small, casual and critical, all over the world. Greenplum offers
next-generation data analytics technology allowing customers to
monetize this data. That's what the big data era is about,” added
McNealy.