You might be heard about Applicance database like HANA (SAP), Netezza (IBM), Exadata(Oracle) etc from the DB vendors/stalwarts sometime back. Here is one more new product from IBM which claims integration of some latest technology like In-memory Analytics, Columnar Storage etc with traditional DB2 database which might help the performance of EDW applications released in Jun 2013.

Attached the DB2 BLU Product documentation if you are interested.
More details and resources on below websites:

http://bluforcloud.com/
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/linux-unix-windows/db2-blu-acceleration/

Thanks and Happy learning!