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InfoSphere BigInsights 2.1
BigInsights 2.1 contains enhanced functionality and improved consumability, making it easier to use Hadoop leveraging existing skills, build big data applications and uncover insights in your data.
- Big SQL - With Big SQL, a SQL interface for Hadoop, you can access data in BigInsights without having to learn a new programming language.
- GPFS-FPO - With GPFS-FPO (General Parallel File System- File Placement Optimizer) support, you get an enterprise grade Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) compliant file system that enhances how data is accessed and stored in InfoSphere BigInsights and removes the single point of failure.
- High Availability - With NameNode High Availability, you get failover that is seamless, transparent and automatic, eliminating admin intervention and reducing downtime.
Why IBM for BigInsights?
IBM InfoSphere BigInsights brings the power of Hadoop to the enterprise. Apache Hadoop is the open source software framework, used to reliably managing large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
BigInsights makes it simpler for people to use Hadoop and build big data applications. It enhances this open source technology to withstand the demands of your enterprise, adding administrative, discovery, development, provisioning, and security features, along with best-in-class analytical capabilities from IBM Research. The result is that you get a more developer and user-friendly solution for complex, large scale analytics.
InfoSphere BigInsights allows enterprises of all sizes to cost effectively manage and analyze the massive volume, variety and velocity of data that consumers and businesses create every day. InfoSphere BigInsights can help you increase operational efficiency by augmenting your data warehouse environment. It can be used as a query-able archive, allowing you to store and analyze large volumes of multi-structured data without straining the data warehouse. It can be used as a pre-processing hub, helping you to explore your data, determine what is the most valuable, and extract that data cost-effectively. It can also allow for ad hoc analysis, giving you the ability to perform analysis on all of your data.
Product Editions
- InfoSphere BigInsights Enterprise Edition
Helps firms discover and analyze new business insights hidden in large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
- InfoSphere BigInsights Quick Start Edition
A free, downloadable, non-production of InfoSphere BigInsights that includes many of the Enterprise Edition features.
- InfoSphere BigInsights Basic Edition
An integrated, tested and pre-configured, no-charge download for anyone who wants to experiment with Hadoop.
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- InfoSphere Data Explorer
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- Big data solutions on System x
Delivering insights with faster time to value.
- DB2 with BLU Acceleration
Advanced, innovative capabilities to accelerate analytic workloads for databases and data warehouses.
- IBM PureData powered by Netezza technology
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- IBM Platform Computing
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InfoSphere BigInsights Resources
- The value of InfoSphere BigInsights
- InfoSphere BigInsights enables a new class of solutions to gain insight from massive volumes of raw data
- Analyzing social media and structured data with InfoSphere BigInsights
- Developing, publishing, and deploying your first Big Data application with InfoSphere BigInsights
Contact IBM
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- Request a quote
- Or call us at: 800-966-9875
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Big Data Resources
- The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Hadoop Solutions
- TDWI Best Practices Report: Big Data Analytics
- Understanding Big Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data
- Using Big Data for Smarter Decision Making
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