IBM
Top Executive: CEO Arvind Krishna
IBM’s broad big data software portfolio includes its DB2 and Informix database systems, the Cognos business intelligence toolset, and the IBM InfoSphere Information Server suite of data integration and data governance tools.
On the hardware side the company, based in Armonk, N.Y., markets the Netezza Performance Server data warehouse platform.
The IBM Big Data Platform is the company’s flagship big data solution. The integrated system offers Hadoop-based analytics, data warehousing, stream computing, and data integration and governance capabilities. It incorporates a number of IBM products including InfoSphere BigInsights, InfoSphere Streams, IBM Smart Analytic Systems, and IBM PureData Systems for Analytics, for Hadoop and for Operational Analytics.