HP is integrating technology from its new acquisitions - Autonomy and Vertica - to boost data analysis.
This emerged at the HP Discover conference, in Vienna, this week. In a spate of acquisitions this year, the tech giant acquired Vertica in February and Autonomy in August.
Speaking during a press conference, Mike Lynch, executive VP of information management at HP and founder and CEO of Autonomy, said that by combining the technologies, HP aims to become a leader in the processing of structured and unstructured data.
Lynch also announced the availability of a data analysis tool, the Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) 10, which he said offers real-time understanding of structured and unstructured data on one platform.
“The platform understands and acts on 100% of data inside and outside an enterprise. It also has a single processing layer for the data and its pattern-matching technology recognises enterprise concepts,” he said.
“Now we have taken Vertica and Autonomy IDOL and we have put them together as one,” Lynch added.
He also revealed that the combination of Vertica's high-speed analytics platform with Autonomy's IDOL technology marks a fundamental shift in HP's ability to process data volumes.
“For far too long, organisations have confined structured data to relational databases and unstructured data to simplistic keyword-matching technologies,” says Praveen Govender, HP Software country manager, SA.
“The results will be dramatic, as businesses can develop entirely new applications that explore the richness and colour of human information that live in unstructured, semi-structured and structured forms.”
IDOL 10 is set to go head-to-head with Oracle's portfolio of database technologies and the open source Hadoop project.
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