An extensive InformationWeek article entitled “Inside Hewlett-Packard’s Data Warehouse Gamble” (John Foley, 1/06/07) describes how HP is aiming a serious effort to be more aggressive in the Business Intelligence (BI) market with new technology that the company is also using for its own data warehousing efforts. HP recently extended its broad portfolio of BI solutions by bringing this technology, the HP Neoview data warehouse platform, to market.
The article includes comments from HP CIO Randy Mott about HP’s use of the Neoview platform for a massive internal data warehouse consolidation. According to the article, “[The new data warehouse] already has 180 terabytes of raw data and 75 terabytes of ‘usable’ data. By 2008, it will be at least twice that size. Some 50,000 employees, a third of HP’s global workforce, will have access to it. Eventually, HP’s suppliers, distributors, and business customers will too, Mott says. A stickler for deadlines and accountability, Mott is managing HP’s three-year IT overhaul and joined-at-the-hip data warehouse with the hands-on attention Ike gave to D-Day.”
“NCR spins off Teradata”
Another InformationWeek article, published by the same author two days later (NCR Spins Off Teradata To Face An Aggressive HP, John Foley, 1/08/07), reports that “NCR disclosed plans…to spin off its Teradata data warehousing business as a separate company. The decision comes only a few months after Hewlett-Packard, under CEO Mark Hurd, entered the data warehousing market, putting HP in direct competition with Teradata.”
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Find out more about the HP Neoview platform and HP’s portfolio of BI solutions.
This news is published on NonStop Computing websites. January 2007.
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