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Syncsort Incorporated is a global software company specializing in Big Data, high speed sorting products, and data integration software and services, for Hadoop, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, and mainframe systems. According to the company, Syncsort products are used by thousands of companies worldwide, with over 12,000 deployments in 70 countries.〔(Bloomberg Businessweek, "Company Overview for Syncsort Incorporated," retrieved 2014-01-14. )〕 ==History== In 1968, Duane Whitlow and Stan Rintel started a company to develop software for mainframe computers.〔Johnson, Luanne, ("Oral History of Duane Whitlow" ), Computer History Museum, Interviewed by Luanne Johnson, recorded 1998-05-08, retrieved 2014-01-14.〕 The result was a business with a niche product portfolio originally based on high speed data sorting, but which later moved into Big Data, Hadoop, Cloud, and ETL. According to co-founder Duane Whitlow, the company's original task was to develop an airlines reservations system for Control Data.〔Johnson, Luanne, ("Oral History of Duane Whitlow" ), Computer History Museum, Interviewed by Luanne Johnson, recorded 1998-05-08, retrieved 2014-01-14.〕 In the course of that work, Whitlow encountered timing charts for IBM's existing sort utility, and thought he could build a sort that was much faster. When sales opportunities arose, the nascent firm demonstrated a smaller footprint and better performance than IBM's equivalent offering. In the early years, Aso Tavitian managed sales and marketing operations, which soon took off, especially after then-startup ''Computerworld'' published a front page story about the product. That story, Whitlow said, resulted in openings in Europe, and the company was one of the first to sell an independent software product in Europe.〔 In those early days, according to Whitlow, Syncsort's product was often the first non-IBM product for many customers. In the 1990s, Syncsort expanded into client/server environments with a Unix-based sort utility and a backup product. In 2004, Syncsort introduced DMExpress, which added core ETL (extract, transform, load) integration capabilities, metadata management and improved job management. In 2008, DMExpress was awarded the ETL world speed record by transferring 5.4TB of raw data into a Vertica Analytic Database on an HP c-class BladeSystem in 57 minutes.〔(Syncsort.com history web page, retrieved 2014-01-14. )〕 By 2013, Syncsort had positioned itself as a “Big Iron to Big Data” company whose products reportedly require less manual tuning and still exhibit high performance. Reflecting the importance of its Big Data strategy, in 2013 Syncsort recruited technology industry veteran Lonne Jaffe as CEO. Jaffe had previously served as Senior Vice President of corporate strategy at CA Technologies, and VP of strategy in the IBM software group.〔http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2013-07-01/syncsort_expands_executive_management_team_for_data_integration_business.html Datanami, "Syncsort Expands Executive Management Team for Data Integration Business," 2013-07-01, retrieved 2013-10-30.〕 Also in 2013, Syncsort acquired Circle Computer Group,〔(Williams, Alex. "Syncsort Acquires Circle Computer Group As Companies Struggle To Get Data Off Ancient Mainframes." Techcrunch, 2013-09-30, retrieved 2014-01-14. )〕 whose product DL/2 facilitates migration of mainframe data, especially from IBM IMS instances to IBM's DB2 under z/OS.〔(Yost, Denny. "z/Product Profile:DL/2 From Circle Computer Group," Enterprise Systems Media, 2011-02-17, retrieved 2014-01-14. )〕〔(Nicole, Kristen. "Breaking Analysis: Syncsort’s New Acquisition Primes Partners for Real-Time Big Data," Silicon Angle, 2013-09-30, retrieved 2014-01-14. )〕 In February 2015, Syncsort acquired William Data Systems, a network monitoring and security software company. Syncsort announced it will make security data collected by William Data available via Ironstream™, a product introduced in 2014 that delivers real-time mainframe data to Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud.〔(Syncsort.com William Data acquisition page, retrieved 2015-04-28. )〕 Syncsort Incorporated is one of the oldest continuously operating software firms of its size.〔(PRNewswire, "Syncsort Announces Winners of 2012 Partner of the Year Awards," 2012-02-01, retrieved 2014-01-14. )〕 Now in its fifth decade, the company has diversified beyond its original namesake product and operates subsidiaries in France, Germany and the UK. October 2015, Syncsort is acquired by Clearlake Capital of Santa Monica, CA. 〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Syncsort」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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