Idol (Intelligent Data Operating Layer) is one of the tools HP gained following its purchase of Autonomy in 2011, and the firm has since looked to widen its appeal by most recently extending its capabilities to the cloud.
Version 10.5 of Idol aims to increase the usefulness of Hadoop databases by embedding Idol functions such as sentiment analysis, clustering and entity extraction into Hadoop nodes.
HP Autonomy CTO Fernando Lucini said the integration was a bid to make Hadoop clusters more useful immediately, but without adding too much complexity for end users. "Our Hadoop integration in 10.5 is all about letting our customers continue to use Hadoop, but use us to extract the core value and core relationships and analytics out of the data they put into Hadoop," he told V3.
Idol will also now work within HP's ArcSight security platform, meaning system admins can keep track of potential threats to their company's intellectual property. This can be done by tracking public social media posts and looking at corporate email activity, flagging up any behaviour that may require attention.
HP's Vertica analytics platform will also receive an Idol user-defined extension (UDX) allowing customers to analyse unstructured data alongside transactional or semi-structured data, increasing the flexibility of Vertica.
HP Autonomy general manager of information analytics Rohit de Souza said Idol's latest enhancements were part of the firm's strategy to bring big data to the masses.
"Big data has always offered big potential to organisations looking to do more with their information assets," he said. "We are taking big data mainstream by providing organisations with a simple, modular and powerful platform that allows organisations to make big data analytics a key component of how they run their business every day."
Idol version 10.5 will be available from Thursday.
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