EMC eyes big data centres

Data storage giant, EMC, has rolled out Greenplum Data Computing Appliance, a data warehousing system that integrates with a data centre, reports eWeek.

The Greenplum-developed appliance will serve as the first product of the new EMC Data Computing Products Division, which is led by former Greenplum CEO and co-founder Luke Lonergan.

Lonergan describes Greenplum as EMC's "key enabler of big data cloud systems," which include self-service health care and financial and scientific analytics.

Huawei Symantec Technologies, has entered into the North American storage and security markets targeting small and medium enterprises (SMEs), states Enterprise Storage Forum.

The Huawei Symantec joint venture was introduced in 2008 and, since that time, the business model has been a focus on the SME storage and security markets outside of the US, beginning in China and expanding to the Asia-Pacific and European markets.

Jane Li, general manager of North America, Huawei Symantec, says: “We have had tremendous growth over the past couple of years and we are now on track for revenues of $500 million dollars this year.”

Micro-blogging site Twitter has eschewed popular technologies such as XML, CSV and JSON for its back-end data storage needs, writes Tech Watch.

For the average of 12TB data that it stores each day, Twitter is instead relying on a data format from Google called Protocol Buffers.

Twitter analytics lead Kevin Well told Computerworld that it is planning the infrastructure to store "a trillion tweets" and requires the correct data format and tools in order to analyse such a vast trove of information.