Wal-Mart nabs HP's BI
Hewlett-Packard announced Wal-Mart Stores, operator of one of the world's largest data warehouses, plans to use HP's new Neoview data warehouse appliance to analyse data collected from its 4,000 retail stores, reports Computer World.
Nancy Stewart, Wal-Mart's chief technology officer, said in a statement that that the HP partnership "is part of a continued effort to drive innovation into every facet of Wal-Mart's business and IT operations".
John Miller, senior director of marketing for BI in HP Software, said the Neoview technology would not replace the Teradata data warehousing technology, "at least not yet or not today". Neoview, however, will be taking an increasing part of Wal-Mart's data warehousing "footprint over time," that would have gone to Teradata, he added.
Velaris takes flight
DoubleStar has unveiled Velaris, a new business dedicated exclusively to business intelligence consulting based on a centre of excellence delivery model, reports Computer Weekly.
Velaris encompasses DoubleStar's core competencies in BI consulting honed over 15 years and is said to take advantage of the firm's engagements with commercial, government and institutional clients.
"Creating a dedicated business under the Velaris brand will properly position this part of our organisation in the BI marketplace and provide a solid platform for continued growth," says Chief Executive Officer Larry Hutchison.
Sybase secures data
Sybase is adding to the encryption and manageability security of Adaptive Server Enterprise in a new version of the company's relational database management system, reports eWeek.
In ASE 15.0.2, announced 30 July, customers can encrypt individual columns with a single command, and need not encrypt a full table or the entire database.
"The more you encrypt on storage, the more you need to decrypt to resolve queries. As a result, excessive encryption and decryption by encrypting data that does not need to be encrypted, can hurt response times. Sybase combines column-based encryption with intelligent, encryption-aware query optimisation to minimise the impact of encryption on response time," says Tom Traubitz, director of trusted infrastructure products for Sybase, in Dublin.
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