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HP’s Big Data Toys Not Playing Well Together?

HP’s Next Generation Information Platform is based on Autonomy’s IDOL 10 and Vertica’s analytics database
By Maureen O'Gara
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April 3, 2012 05:30 AM EDT
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Hmm, that's curious. Fortune noticed that Vertica, the analytic database management software that HP bought early last year for ~$350 million, has been quietly shifted out from under Autonomy and its boss Mike Lynch, who was given information management to run when HP closed on the $10.2 billion Autonomy acquisition in October.

In November HP announced its Next Generation Information Platform, a Big Data analytics platform based on Autonomy's unstructured data analytics engine, IDOL 10, and Vertica's analytics database. The platform combines structured and unstructured data into a unified workflow.

Vertica is now under ex-Microsoftie Bill Veghte, who's running HP's software unit. Wonder what that says for Mike Lynch.

Meanwhile Vertica's ex-CEO Chris Lynch (yes, another Lynch) just left HP, a year practically to the day after HP picked up Vertica. He intends to turn angel investor and is promising to put money into 20 Big Data start-ups in the Boston area. According to the Boston Globe he wants to "revitalize" Boston.

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