HP has revealed an updated version of its Vertica big data analytics platform in a bid to fulfil a data-oriented strategy that benefits businesses and non-data scientists. HP Vertica will gain data streaming capabilities and advanced log file text searching to enable high-speed analytics on big data collected from sources such as the Internet of Things (IoT). The new version of Vertica, codenamed Excavator, will offer support for Apache Kafka, an open source distributed messaging system, to allow organisations to harvest and analyse streaming data in near real time…