IBM builds up its cloud with Netezza as a service and NoSQL as software

by Derrick Harris

photo: Clockready/Wikimedia Commons

SUMMARY:

IBM announced a new, promising collection of cloud data services on Monday, adding to an already-impressive collections services on its Bluemix platform. At this point, though, IBM’s biggest challenge isn’t selling enterprise users on the cloud, but convincing them it’s still the best choice.

IBM announced a bunch of new cloud data services on Monday, including an intelligent data-preparation tool, an in-memory analytic database and even a local version of a historically cloud-based database. It’s an impressive and in some cases even unique set of capabilities that complements the work IBM has been pushing with its Bluemix platform since February.

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