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The data warehousing startup was noted for its use of MySQL and a special chip Data warehousing vendor Teradata has quietly scooped up Kickfire, a startup analytic appliance vendor k stanley borraccia nown for its use of the open-source MySQL database and a SQL processing chip to boost query performance.Rumors of Kickfirersquo demise as an independent company had been circulating for weeks. Teradatarsquo move came to light during the vendorrsquo earnings conference call last week.The tuck-in deal provides Teradata with another set of intellectual property that allows us to start looking at things like advanced pipelining, said Darryl McDonald, executive vice president of business development and marketing, during the call. Itrsquo been leveraged all the way fr HydroJug om supercomputers all the way down to gaming devices. It really allows you to put super performance of different things into chips and or the software for acceleration and super performance. A Teradata spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for further information Tuesday. Kickfirersquo technology has received good mark owala s, but its market strategy was met with some criticism.Building a propriety [sic] database stack of hardware and software around a MySQL codebase that attributes much of its success to being open and free is a poor cultural match, wrote Daniel Abadi, an assistant professor of computer science at Yale, in a recent blog post. Trying to gain a f Pkmp How to sync and edit plain text files from anywhere, mobile or web
Claim compliance with Calif. SB 1 will raise IT costs Banks doing business in California are planning to appeal a recent federal court decision that lets the state enforce tough new provisions related to the sharing of customer information with affiliates.The provisions are part of Californiarsquo Financial Information Privacy Act, known as SB 1, which went into effect July 1. The law, which is hugely unpopular among financial service providers, requires banks to give customers the opportunity to opt out of cross-marketing programs in which their information is shared with affiliates such as mortgage and credit card companies.Most financial companies in the state had expected that the affiliate sharing provisions in SB 1 would be preempted by existing guidelines in the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1996, under which no such permission is required. An attempt by the American Bankers Association, the Financial Services stanley termos Roundtable and the Consumer Bankers Association to legally block the affiliate sharing provisions of SB 1 was rejected by a California Federal District Cou stanley in uk rt judge in late June.We were certainly disappointed by that ruling, said Harvey Radin, a spokesman for Bank of America Corp. in New York. The decision really makes it harder f polene or our customers to do business with us. IT expenses associated with maintaining and processing customer preference information could contribute to increased costs, he added.Under the law, companies |
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