November 29, 2011 By Vangie Beal
HP (NYSE: HPQ) is harnessing the technologies of recent acquisitions, Autonomy and Vertica, in its newly expanded Information Optimization portfolio.
HP first announced the acquisition of Vertica, a privately held firm specializing in business intelligence and analytics services, in February. It followed with a deal to buy information management software firm Autonomy Corp. for $10.3B in August.
The HP Vertica Analytics Platform is software to improve real-time performance for demanding business intelligence and analytic workloads and can analyze data on a massive scale. Autonomy's IDOL 10 (Intelligent Data Operating Layer), also announced today, now integrates with Vertica to provide a single processing layer for forming a conceptual, contextual and real-time understanding of all forms of data, both inside and outside an enterprise....
"For far too long, organizations have confined structured data to relational databases and unstructured data to simplistic keyword matching technologies," said Mike Lynch, executive vice president for Information Management at HP. "IDOL 10 brings these worlds together, allowing organizations to automatically process, understand, and act on 100 percent of their data, in real-time. The results will be dramatic, as businesses can develop entirely new applications that explore the richness and color of human information that live in unstructured, semi-structured, and structured forms."
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