Cirro is a fresh approach to the challenge of federated processing
Federation of query processing is about taking the processing to the data. Cirro users do not need to concern themselves with the complexities of having to stage data, pre-process data, various operating systems, or multiple query languages…
http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/06/20/cirro-launches-company-bring-big-data-desktop?page=0,1