An In-Depth Look at EMC's Greenplum Plans

Last week, EMC said it would acquire privately held Greenplum, data warehousing technology developer, for an undisclosed sum. As mentioned in this Channel Web report, the acquisition is part of EMC’s effort to move up the value chain from data storage to data management and information analysis.

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"EMC, of course, is much more than a data storage system builder. The 50-plus acquisitions it has made in recent years include enterprise content management application developer Documentum and data discovery and archiving software vendor Kazeon Systems.

"The challenge for EMC, which bills itself as a supplier of 'information infrastructure solutions,' is to keep adding new products that help customers not just store data, but also derive value from it. Greenplum, based on the PostgreSQL open-source database and a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, provides a way for business to offer their employees and customers self-service business analysis capabilities."

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