The pool of online data analysis services available for corporate users is about to grow larger, with HP set to offer two of its own key products as hosted cloud services by early next year.
The company’s high-performance columnar database, Vertica, will be available as a hosted offering starting early in 2015, as HP Vertica OnDemand.
The company will also offer selected functions of its IDOL (intelligent data operating layer) text processing software as discrete services that can be embedded into mobile and desktop computing applications, in a package called IDOL OnDemand, already available to selected developers.
The new services “are the next significant steps in our Big Data strategy,” said Jeff Veis, HP vice president of marketing for the company’s new Big Data business unit. The company announced the new offerings at its HP Discover Barcelona conference held this week.
Like its on-premises counterpart, HP Vertica OnDemand provides a way to quickly analyze very large tracts of structured data. The service is designed to manage terabytes of data. A Vertica database can be set up online within 30 minutes, and can easily accommodate 10Tb in a single implementation, Veis said. “It has a huge focus on simplicity and ease-of-use,” he said. “You can get up and running very quickly.”
New Tools
HP Vertica OnDemand comes with a number of built-in analysis tools. Veis noted that the company will offer a range of pricing models, based on either the amount of data stored or the amount of data queries executed, starting at $999 per month. The company will also offer a version of the service that can be accessed as a virtual private cloud service, for organisations with highly sensitive data.
While Vertica OnDemand was designed for deep and quick data analysis of structured data, IDOL OnDemand is aimed more at Web developers who may want to harness some of IDOL’s text analysis and processing functionality for their own apps. The service is a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) culled from the core IDOL platform that can be called from external applications. IDOL offers services such as image analysis, format conversions, text analysis and search capabilities.
HP started quietly testing IDOL OnDemand earlier this year and thus far has attracted over 5,000 developers.
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