{"id":7336,"date":"2013-05-09T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/may\/09\/actian-goes-on-a-big-data-acquisition-spree\/"},"modified":"2013-05-09T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T11:30:00","slug":"actian-goes-on-a-big-data-acquisition-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/actian-goes-on-a-big-data-acquisition-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"Actian goes on a Big Data acquisition spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, Software &ndash; Enterprise Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actian, the vendor formerly known as Ingres, has suddenly put itself on the map through rapid-fire acquisitions of Pervasive Software, ParAccel, and Versant Software. The die was cast more than two years ago with its acquisition of Vectorwise, a fast, single-node analytic database. <\/p>\n<p>Actian&rsquo;s goal is to assemble a mini-stack that includes a data integration engine and different data platforms for different transactional and analytic use cases. With the acquisitions, Actian winds up with a mix of mature, maintenance-oriented businesses that can contribute cash flow towards developing emerging data platforms for harnessing Big Data. <\/p>\n<p>While Actian has bought its way to a $150m business &ndash; big enough to be noticed &ndash; its challenge is building critical mass in at least one or two of its product segments.<\/p>\n<h3>Deep heritage<\/h3>\n<p>Actian, the outgrowth of the Ingres business, has been in search of a high-growth engine &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, Software &ndash; Enterprise Solutions<br \/>\nActian, the vendor formerly known as Ingres, has suddenly put itself on the map through rapid-fire acquisitions of Pervasive Software, ParAccel, and Versant Software. The die was cast &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}