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• Oracle to release finance data warehouse

  Oracle is offering a data warehouse tailored for the needs of the financial services industry, the company announced Thursday.

• Microsoft's Dryad technology to take on Google's MapReduce

  Addressing the growing market for tools that handle very large data sets, Microsoft has released a beta set of technologies, called Dryad, to manage and analyze large amounts of information across a cluster of Windows Servers.

• Google debuts text analysis tools

  Google has introduced two tools that may help users discover new ways to parse the company's massive collections of public information.

• IBM adds assessment tools to data center service offerings

  Using its research in analytics, IBM has created 18 assessment tools that it is incorporating into its IT services offerings.

• Google releases data cleanser

  Google has updated and re-released open-source software for cleaning, analyzing and transforming data sets, now called Google Refine.

• Sybase IQ updated for parallel processing

  Database vendor Sybase is upgrading its column-oriented database, Sybase IQ, to run on a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture.

• Hopkins to build data analysis super machine

  Disregarding the supercomputing community's insatiable thirst for FLOPS (floating point operations per second), the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University is configuring its new machine to achieve the maximum number of IOPS (I/O operations per second) instead.

• Informatica teams with Cloudera to ease Hadoop use

  Informatica has modified its business intelligence software so that it can work with Cloudera's Hadoop distribution, the two companies announced Monday.

• EMC tackles big data with Greenplum appliance

  Taking aim at the growing problem of <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-big-promise-big-data-what-you-need-know-today-585">big data management</a>, EMC has released a data warehouse appliance tweaked to consume lots of data really quickly.

• Hadoop pitched for business intelligence

  While it began life as a tool for indexing Web pages, the open source Hadoop framework is being marketed as a tool that could house and analyze vast amounts of data with the kind of proportions that would quickly overwhelm traditional database systems and data warehouses.

• Netezza buy further defines IBM's analytics bent

  IBM's $US1.7 billion planned acquisition of data warehouse vendor Netezza is more evidence of IBM's relentless intent to define and perhaps even create a new IT market, which its executives call business analytics.

• How Microsoft PowerPivot will disrupt BI

  Could the age of self-service BI (business intelligence) finally be near? And, if so, are organizations ready?

• SAS rolls out predictive analytics for business users

  SAS Institute on Thursday announced a new toolset aimed at giving business users the ability to work with predictive analytics software, which has historically been the province of specialized statisticians.

• Cloudera preps Hadoop for the enterprise

  Cloudera has unveiled a new set of Hadoop management tools, called Cloudera Enterprise, that the company will offer for an annual subscription fee, it announced on Tuesday. It has also updated its open-source distribution package of Hadoop.

• Got Facebook privacy concerns? You ain't seen nothing yet

  Carnegie Mellon University researcher, Tom Mitchell, says that privacy risks "on a scale that humans have never before faced" hinder real-time data analysis that could be used to solve health, traffic and human behavior problems.