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• • David Cachia@davidca92

  

  David Cachia June 27, 2012 - 8:55pm

  I haven't heard of most of these. Thanks for the share!

• • Patrick Picard@patrickpi1

  

  Patrick Picard June 27, 2012 - 9:55pm

  Great share.

   

  My Appliance Shortlist:

  1. Netezza vs. Teradata
  2. Exadata (im not impressed by oracle for DW...so im skeptical about exadata...especially if the appliance targets both transactional and analytical)

  S/W:

  • DataStage vs. Informatica for ETL
  • For high volume, Ab Initio
  • Tools for the business SAS

   

  Im shocked that SAS didnt get much mention in that article

   

  I see Microsoft as a toy player in that market. good for SMB and people without strong knowledge (point n click)

• • Leonardo Valente@leonardova

  

  Leonardo Valente June 30, 2012 - 7:10am

  Very cool article. I have to say I am biased towards EMC. Out of the big data scope and more into virtualization they are quite innovative. They purchase VMware stock back in the day when IBM was a venture capital company and they partnered with Vmware and Cisco to create a company called VCE to provided virtualization solutions for servers and networking using EMC storage.