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• Teradata's Aster analytic database gets appliance treatment

  Teradata is adding an appliance option for its Aster analytic database, giving it another potential weapon against rivals such as Oracle's Exadata, EMC's Greenplum and SAP's HANA.

• Study: World's colleges lack BI, analytics concentration

  Relatively few colleges and universities around the world offer dedicated degree programs for BI (business intelligence), despite the rapidly growing popularity of analytics technology among businesses, according to a study announced Monday.

• Enabling customer data the next evolution for Aussie banks: Teradata

  Australian businesses must prepare to share more information with customers as business intelligence (BI) evolves, according to software company Teradata.

• Teradata, Information Builders roll out BI appliance

  Teradata and Information Builders have developed a data warehousing package that bundles the latter's WebFOCUS BI (business intelligence) software with a Teradata analytic appliance, the companies announced Friday.

• Wall Street Beat: Tablets, big data shape IT economics

  News from Apple and Teradata along with various economic forecasts this week show that at seemingly opposite ends of the technology-product spectrum, non-PC mobile devices and IT capable of handling extremely high volumes of data are major forces shaping the economics of the computer industry.

• Teradata buys Aster Data, boosts 'big data' wares

  Teradata said Thursday it plans to buy data warehousing startup Aster Data Systems, continuing a run of consolidation in the market for technology that can process ever-growing amounts of "big data."

• Edison taps Teradata for smart meter data

  A growing number of utility companies have begun implementing data warehousing and analytics technologies to handle smart grid data.

• EMC's Greenplum offers 'big data' tools at no charge

  EMC is now offering a community edition of its Greenplum data warehousing platform, as well as algorithms and data mining tools for working with large data sets, at no charge, the company announced Tuesday.

• 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.

• Hurd's Oracle hiring could prove a problem for Teradata

  If Mark Hurd can keep his new post as co-president of Oracle Corp. , analysts say his role at the database vendor is likely to be watched closely by executives at high-end data warehouse appliance vendor Teradata Corp.

• Teradata quietly scoops up Kickfire

  Data warehousing vendor Teradata has quietly scooped up Kickfire, a startup analytic appliance vendor known for its use of the open-source MySQL database and a SQL processing chip to boost query performance.

• Teradata 13 focuses on speed, geospatial data

  Teradata has announced the general availability of Teradata 13, the latest incarnation of its data warehousing software platform.

• SAP and Teradata deepen data warehousing ties

  SAP's NetWeaver Business Warehouse software will soon run natively on Teradata's database for high-end data warehousing and BI, the vendors announced Monday.

• St George banks on Teradata

  St. George Bank has deployed a new data warehousing solution to increase the speed and capacity of its data centre network and storage.