The most popular and comprehensive Open Source ECM platform
Let us know more
Software-Defined Enterprise: Metanautix Quest Software-Defined Data Mart
A combination of Analytics, Cloud and Mobile are revolutionizing the way many enterprises work. The fuel that’s powering these technologies is software and data. The movement towards software started with software-defined servers or server virtualization, but it didn’t stop there. Now there is software-defined storage, software-defined networks, software-defined data centers, and software-defined architecture. These technologies, backed by software and data, are creating Software-Defined Enterprises.
This week there was an announcement of another software-defined technology. Metanautix, a company focusing on big data analytics, launched Quest 2.0, a product that they’re calling a software-defined data mart (SDDM). The standard definition of a data mart is an access layer to a data warehouse which provides users with access to a slice of the data in the data warehouse. What’s different about the Quest product is that to create the data mart you don’t need to move data into a centralized system. It’s done by building a data mart with existing virtualization infrastructure like VMware.
Tony Baer, principal analyst at Ovum, said that “Metanautix enables organizations to simplify the querying of disparate sources of data whether it’s stored in Hadoop, MongoDB, CouchDB, Salesforce, or other sources. The data compute engine is not only able to federate data integration with query, but it also offers high performance analytics through SQL and BI tools like Tableau or Eclipse.”
Key features of the Metanautix Quest 2.0 product include:
- Secure data access to a slice of the entire company dataset
- Auditability
- Caching and Snapshotting
- Scaling with support for multi-node clusters
