Electrical retailer, Comet, has picked Sequent to provide it with a data warehouse to store and analyse information about its customers. The system uses a Sequent NUMA-Q enterprise server, kept on Comet's premises but maintained remotely from...
Wayne Eckerson, senior consultant, Patricia Seybold Group, said that data warehouse customers are now looking for industry-focused offerings, and that Sybase and SGI have established a "milestone towards providing true packaged analytic...
BT has chosen IBM and storage company, EMC, to set up a £5m 13TB data warehouse to store and manage customer information. It will use Numa-Q servers and EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems. Before finalising the contract, BT asked the...
The Carphone Warehouse is hoping to attract long-term investors to its IPO next week, by offering bonus shares to anyone who keeps their stake for over three months. The scheme, which is aimed to discourage "armchair traders", is thought to be the...
The system, an $8.4m HP Integrity Superdome with 64 1.5GHz Itanium 2 processors running HP's version of Unix, achieved a score of 1,008,000 transactions per minute on the TPC-C test. HP and IBM have been fighting for the top spot in the TPC-C test...
HP's Integrity range of systems runs on the Intel Itanium line of processors. James Governor, an analyst with RedMonk, said the deal was "a nice win" for Parallels and would take the company into the high-end of HP computing.