<p>A recent upgrade to IBM Corp's SmartCloud enables the cloud computing product to run copies of SAP AG's in-memory database platform HANA and provides the Big Blue product with new data analytics features.</p><p>SmartCloud will begin using version 10.5 of IBM's DB2 database by the second half of 2013, according to Bob Picciano, IBM general manager for information management. The infrastructure-as-a-service (laaS) product can now also run copies of HANA although it currently for test and development purposes only.</p><p>Other companies also offering cloud computing platforms meant for enterprise-scale data analysis. Among them are EMC and VMware's subsidiary, Pivotal and Google's Big Query service.</p><p>IBM said DB2 is receiving a collection of new technologies called BLU Acceleration which is meant the accelerate data analysis by 25 times or more, Picciano said.</p><p><a href="http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/ibms-smartcloud-now-runs-hana/147139">Keep reading...</a></p>