Infobright Blog

Next week, on Oct 28, I will be hosting a webinar with Peter Goldmacher, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst for the investment management firm Cowen and Company. Peter and fellow analyst Joe del Callar authored a comprehensive report on Data Management called "Big Data: A New Breed of Database Vendor Means Trouble For The Existing Order."

Unlike reports written by tech industry analysts, this report was written for Cowen clients (investors) to help them understand both the dynamics of the fast-moving market and how both public and private companies are positioned (or not) to take advantage of market forces. Their view of how the Big Data challenge will impact the big database companies is at odds with much of the conventional wisdom. The report contends that due to both the volume and type of data being generated, especially unstructured data, the traditional vendors have a price/performance disadvantage and are unlikely to win out:

"To capitalize on the Big Data trend, a new breed of Big Data companies has emerged, leveraging commodity hardware, open source and proprietary technology to capture and analyze these new data sets. We believe the incumbent vendors are unlikely to be a major force in the Big Data trend primarily due to pricing issues and not a lack of technical know-how."

The 75-page report does an excellent job defining Big Data, discussing the new vendors with Big Data solutions, providing a technical overview of legacy versus new technology, and includes detailed pricing analyses to demonstrate the cost advantage of new technology versus traditional databases. If you would like a copy of the report, just send an email to: info at infobright dot com. You can also register for the webinar here.