Chiliad and Virtual Consolidation
April 13, 2013
Yep, fragmentation is an issue even in big data analytics. I read “Chiliad Takes Virtual Consolidation Route to Big Data Analytics.” Chiliad is a company which provides software and services to a number of US government agencies and to other customers as well.
The main point of the write up is:
Chiliad says it can eliminate some of those barriers to adoption of big data analytics with Discovery/Alert 7.0, an iterative information retrieval system that lets analysts search any data warehouse or data set across clouds, agencies, departments and organizations.
The once popular term “federation” has given way to a host of synonyms, including unified information access and consolidation. The new twist is the use of the word “virtual” which implies that leaving data where it resides is something new. The alternative is creating a data warehouse like the old iPhrase system and other repository centric approaches to data management.
The article contains this statement: “Discovery/Alert provides global ranking of results to help analysts find relevant information in massive collections of data.” Then I read, “We [Chiliad] actually give you a unified, holistic global ranking of all of your results… As organizations scale out to billions of records and petabytes of data, relevancy becomes more important.”
The story highlights features which remind me of Fast Search & Transfer’s descriptions of its system. In fact, a number of search and content processing vendors have made similar points for many years.
What’s new? The emphasis is on “all” and “virtual.” Will these concepts be enough to move search and content processing, analytics, and business intelligence forward? Will these assertions cause some firms to dog paddle instead of speeding to the finish line?
I don’t know. The marketing points seem remarkable consistent in my opinion. The problems seem to be unsolved despite the efforts of many, many vendors to deliver actionable information.
Stephen E Arnold, April 13, 2013
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