Fujitsu Big Data software suite

IDG News Service - Fujitsu ... will release a set of software suite tools aimed at processing and analyzing huge sets of diverse information known as big data.

The company announced server software aimed at handling large, diverse file systems, quickly scanning volumes of data, and rapidly storing and reading information from databases. Fujitsu is also developing dedicated hardware for the new packages, which it will launch by the end of next March, said Kazuo Imada, head of the company's cloud platform development group.

"We're just starting from scratch, but eventually we'd like to achieve $1.23 billion in annual sales in this business," he told reporters at a press conference in Tokyo.

Fujitsu's new software includes a product called Interstage Big Data Parallel Processing Server, which expands on the open-source Apache Hadoop platform for building filesystems across networks of independent servers. The company said its improvements make the software five times faster than Hadoop.

The company is also releasing its Complex Event Processing Server, which can quickly comb large data sets for matches to a set of master files. Imada said it can be used to find trends in large sets of company data, and gave the example of analyzing customer complaints about a product.

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Fujitsu Releases Software Supporting the Utilization of Big Data