{"id":3709,"date":"2013-04-25T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2013-04-25T07:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T15:00:03","slug":"big-data-analytics-big-blues-blu-acceleration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/big-data-analytics-big-blues-blu-acceleration\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data Analytics: Big Blue's BLU Acceleration"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new package it calls BLU Acceleration was recently announced<\/a> by IBM Research. \u00a0BLU is intended to speed up Big Data Analytics (BDA)\u00a0and reporting. \u00a0BLU is currently a technology announcement and not a product, but it undoubtedly being announced partially in responce to SAP’s HANA technology. \u00a0BLU is based on DB2 — DB2 was extended to add a column store which can significantly speed the accessing and processing of data.<\/p>\n

IBM has combined a number of analytic acceleration technologies and tricks into the single BLU Big Data Analytics offering. \u00a0The focus of the technology was on performance. \u00a0The idea is that the faster information can be processed, the more interactive and better users will be able to make decisions from their data.<\/p>\n