IDC says that Y2K and Euro projects have held back the data warehouse market for the last year, but it predicts growth will increase during 2000 and 2001 as businesses free up budgets and find they need data warehousing functions in order to compete.
This will be driven primarily by the increasing popularity of using the Web as a channel for video and music - both of which consume acres of disk space. For the moment, and probably for another five years or more, the requirement for disk space is...
It has a processing power of 200 gigaflops, combined with 64 gigabytes of memory and half a terabyte of disk space in eight standalone units, and can run on AIX 4.3.3 - IBM's version of the Linux operating system.
Dear added: "Given the price of Terabyte storage, companies now have an alternative to adding more disks. Instead of archiving all data on disk, UniTree Database Near Line will move data from disk to tape or optical storage once it becomes inactive...
Lars Nyberg, chairman and CEO at NCR, said in a statement: "The strength of our earnings this quarter clearly demonstrates that we are now a growth company. NCR stock surged by more than 10 per cent in response to today's news.
Following his graduation in 1979, Hurd joined Teradata, now a division of NCR, in 1980, working his way up from field salesman to head of the company over a period of 25 years. Hurd's capacity to head a diverse, multi-united business - NCR's...