Big Blue Adds Big Weapon In Big Data Arms Race
Platform specializes in the use of Hadoop, an open source software platform based on Google’s backend infrastructure. “A number of the Hadoop vendors are not that deep. But Platform Computing is,” Jim Kobelius, an analyst with research outfit Forrester, told Wired, before pointing out that IBM’s Jeopardy-playing Watson supercomputer is built atop the open-source platform. “I think IBM is serious about [Hadoop], and I see a lot of potential for better big data management with this acquisition.”
