San Diego, Calif – zData Inc. is announcing Big Data-as-a-Service for the enterprise.  With Greenplum, SQLFire and Hadoop at the top of the stack.

Enterprises considering moving their big data infrastructure to the cloud need more than just a hosted database solutions.  They need an agile, full-stack offering that allows their internal data science and analytical teams to collaborate and quickly iterate their ideas without overburdening IT.  zData’s new Big Data-as-a-service (BDaaS) offering provides three components that make this a reality:

1. Infrastructure and technology capable of storing massive amounts of data.
2. Enterprise tools with the ability to analyze and report on the Big data technologies rapidly developing in the marketplace.
3. The ability for teams to share their reports, analysis and datasets across their organization.

Contrary to current thought, the technology itself is not responsible for creating the momentum around Big Data; in reality the driving factor is the growing requirement for businesses need to extract increasing more actionable value from their data.  Too often organizations hire engineers and procure servers before they know how much data they plan to store or how much processing power is required to derive insights.  This process is not only expensive, but also distracting to executives, managers, and data scientists.  With zData’s BDaaS, businesses can get up and running with fully supported hardware, software and services within days of making the decision to utilize Big Data, with the flexibility to grow their infrastructure on demand at anytime.

As more organizations are struggling with the decision on weather to use cloud-hosting environments like EC2 vs. custom infrastructures, zData takes the engineering and guesswork out of it by providing an economical solution that scales to fulfill their needs.  zData has partnered with leading infrastructure, database and analytics vendors to provide organizations with the highest level of integration and compatibility on the market today.

“By reducing the barrier of entry and the time to market zData is allowing data science startups to spend their time and money bringing value to their customers… rather than solving IT issues.“ – Robert Carlson, VP (Alpine Data Labs)

Leveraging zData’s BDaaS solution, organizations have the unique ability to add new access to data across their analytical departments resulting in the following efficiencies:

Agility

• Quickly access your data
• Quickly scale your environment for new data
• Quickly meet new performance needs

Collaboration

• Ease of sharing data
• Ease of sharing derivations
• Ease of sharing insights
• Ease of sharing toolsets

Iteration

• Creation of an Agile, Collaborative environment in weeks not months or years

zData Inc. is pioneering a new SOA platform with guaranteed SLA’s, simple and competitive all- inclusive pricing models and best in class customer service and support.  If you love the idea of Big Data and don’t know where to start take our Big Data challenge and let us be your trusted advisor www.thebigdatachallenge.com.  Or visit us at www.zd8a.com to sign up your organization as a Beta Tester.

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San Diego, Calif., May 23, 2012 – zData Inc. today announced the availability of two new Big Data offerings for it’s consulting practice to help customers maintain and manage their continually growing EMC-Greenplum Database and Hadoop clusters. zData is expanding it’s offerings to allow customers access to zData’s experienced EMC-Greenplum resources at a lower cost for a longer term. zData’s Remote DBA and Managed Services provide businesses access to a team of U.S.-based experts ensuring the successful monitoring and support of their EMC-Greenplum Big Data systems.

“Companies are wanting to do more with less and still be able to support big data analytics projects on their EMC-Greenplum clusters. zData’s Remote DBA and Managed Service offerings give them flexibility to do this at a cost they can afford long term” says Tony Wasson, VP of Consulting Services at zData.

zData Managed Services provides customers experienced resources, acting as a highly skilled extension of a company’s work force with a depth of EMC-Greenplum knowledge that is not available today on the open job market. zData’s Managed Service teams do not go to sleep, do not get sick, and don’t take vacation, resulting in systems management and oversight that is truly 24/7. This offering from zData addresses the database administration and management needs of its subscribers, supporting critical EMC-Greenplum database operational functions and statistics. It is designed to ensure the ideal configuration, optimum performance and trouble- free operation, while also providing the availability of expert database administrators when needed.

zData’s Remote DBA Services for EMC-Greenplum provides customers an extension to their in-house DBA resources, yielding superior knowledge of EMC-Greenplum Database and Hadoop Clusters at a lower cost. For customers without full-time DBAs on staff, zData offers full service remote DBA expertise. This offering ensures the optimal design and architecture of their EMC-Greenplum Analytics environments. zData’s EMC-Greenplum remote DBA services are fully proactive, dedicated to identifying and correcting problems before they impact the business.

About zData Inc.
zData Inc. is a leading provider of Big Data consulting, software and solutions specializing in EMC-Greenplum and Hadoop. At zData Inc. we have experience in designing, developing and implementing BigData Analytic solutions, high volume search engine systems, wide spanning web crawlers, log collection and scalable MPP data warehousing environments.

For more information on zData software and services visit http://www.zd8a.com.

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San Diego, Calif., May 23, 2012 – zData Inc. today announced its beta release of CONflux and SQLflux, two products that provide real-time analytic capabilities and performance enhancements to the Greenplum Database. Their software addresses Greenplums challenge of analyzing large data sets as the data gets generated. It acts as a caching layer on top of the Greenplum Database and allows customers to process, analyze, correlate, and react to 10’s of thousands of data events per second.

“Many companies are looking to expand their processing needs and capability to real time while leveraging their current Greenplum environment. CONflux and SQLflux allow for an affordable way to experiment with real-time analytics and real-time decisioning and at the same time enhancing their current EDW’s form and function.” Explains Dan Feldhusen, VP of Business Development at zData.

CONflux enables running advanced analytics in real-time to create live dashboards, identify and recognize patterns within one or across multiple data streams, and trigger actions based on predefined rules or heuristics. CONflux’s is an object based storage layer that sits on top of Greenplum and replicates data into Greenplum’s RDBMS within seconds. If you’re needs are nano and millisecond decisions it can handle even the most challenging data volumes and complex analytical problems leveraging the scalability of MapReduce and JSON jobs. CONflux was designed to work seamlessly in Greenplum’s Unified Analytics Platform and is designed to leverage the Data Integration Accelerator(DIA) module.

SQLflux, a separate product offering included with the CONflux software package is designed to enhance Greenplums native insert functionality. SQLflux middleware increases the insert threshold of Greenplum 10 to 20x. Its seamless integration allows you to connect your ETL environment or applications exactly the same way would Greenplum.

About zData Inc.
zData Inc. is a leading provider of Big Data consulting, software and solutions specializing in MPP and NoSQL technologies. At zData Inc. we have experience in designing, developing and implementing Big Data processing and analysis solutions, high volume search engine systems, high volume web crawlers, log collection and scalable mpp datawarehouse environments. As a trusted partner of EMC Greenplum and Vmware, zData specializes in technologies that complement the EMC product line.

For more information on zData software and services visit http://www.zd8a.com.

CONflux and SQLflux are registered trademarks of zData Inc. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

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