Informatica Overhauls Data Integration Platform for Big Data and Social Media

"In this release, Informatica 9.1 features connectivity to the Hadoop file system, HDFS. Using the connector, enterprises can leverage the highly scalable power of MapReduce by moving data into Hadoop for Big Data processing and moving the results to a target data store for consumption.

"The platform also supports connectivity to popular social networking services including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn."

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