Andy Bayliss on BeyeNETWORK Podcast
Andy explains the term “data right sizing” that SAND is using to explain the concept of near-line data warehousing strategy.
HP.com: Software partners salute HP-UX 11i on its 25th Anniversary
SAND Technology:
“As partners for more than 10 years, SAND Technology and HP are committed to providing our customers with seamless interoperability with SAND’s industry-leading data management product suite, SAND/DNA. The latest release of HP-UX 11i v3 combines improved performance, scalability, and security. Combining these enhancements along with its excellent binary compatibility, SAND’s customers can quickly have access to the latest releases. SAND looks forward to a lasting relationship with HP to ensure our customers receive a best-of-breed solution. Congratulations to HP-UX on your silver anniversary!”
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Global Security Magazine: Intelligent Information Management for the Real World
By Richard Grondin, SAND Technology
Intelligent Information Management is not really a new concept. What is new is the scope and volume of enterprise data that needs to be managed, and the more stringent regulations concerning data governance by which organizations must abide. Now more than ever, enterprise data assets need to be managed carefully to protect data access, immutability, privacy, monitoring capabilities, auditability, and business value over the complete information lifecycle. This is precisely what IIM is about, and to be successful it needs to be implemented with a focus on the data itself instead of on the specific ways it will be used.
DataCenter Journal: Keep Your Data Lean… and Green
By Peter Olding, General Manager, SAND Technology UK
What keeps you awake at night? Is it having to go to your Board of Directors or CIO tomorrow and explain why your organisation cannot hit agreed service levels around your storage infrastructure or perhaps beg for more capital expenditure to increase your existing infrastructure footprint? If so, read on…
Intelligent Information Management for the Real World
Richard Grondin, October 9, 2008
Intelligent Information Management is not really a new concept. What is new is the scope and volume of enterprise data that needs to be managed, and the more stringent regulations concerning data governance by which organizations must abide.
Gartner Details a Thriving EDW Segment - TDWI
Finally, Gartner charts another intriguing niche player — SAND Technology, which is hardly a DW newcomer. Thanks to the growing popularity of columnar databases, however, Sand is enjoying a surprising surge in popularity.
SAP INFO: Powerful Corporate Memory: Data management using nearline storage
Nearline storage systems are a type of midway house between a relational online database and an offline archive. The data stored in these systems can be called up very quickly without impacting on the database. A special type of data storage compresses the storage volume, allowing queries to be processed more quickly and cut costs.
SAP INFO: Dieting for Databases: ENTEGA Service uses nearline solution from SAND to store SAP data
By Roland Markowski
ENTEGA Service is channeling its growing data volumes in SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence with a nearline storage solution from SAND Technology. The german company uses the solution to store all data that is not immediately required, but which still needs to be accessible for audit purposes. As a result, the database stays lean while storage costs and run times for queries and backups are reduced.
The Next Generation of Enterprise Data Warehousing
By Jürgen Haupt, SAP AG, Regional Implementation Group (RIG), EMEA and Dr. Michael Hahne, SAND Technology
Recent technological developments have made it possible to overcome – or in the cases where the data explosion has not yet “hit”, to proactively avoid – the challenges described above. Specifically, SAND Technology, an SAP® Software Partner, has successfully integrated SAND/DNA 2.3 with SAP NetWeaver BI as a nearline storage component. The SAP Certified Integration of SAND/DNA enables customers using SAP NetWeaver BI to implement an efficient nearline repository that can keep massive volumes of less frequently used data (as held in DataStore Objects in the Data Acquisition layer and the Data Propagation layer of the EDW) in a tiny footprint, in a format that permits rapid, easy access. Based on practical experience in the production environments of several customers using SAND/DNA with SAP NetWeaver BI (both with SAP Business Information Warehouse Release 3.1/3.5 and with SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0), it is realistic to expect between 85% and 95% compression, depending on InfoObject type, data volume and data diversity.
Near-Line Storage Keeps Static Data Available - SAP NetWeaver Magazine
By Michael Hahne
Near-line components allow the data warehouse to scale cost-effectively to hold many TB — even petabytes (PB) — of accessible data. However, near-line data storage doesn’t necessarily replace archival storage. For one thing, it may not qualify as a compliance-certified “point of record” creation for original data (see “Meeting Compliance Regulations” below). In some cases, the data stored in near-line storage is not in its original form, but is a representation or transformation of the original data. You still need archival, certified storage to keep the originals and to guarantee the retention of old data that you’re unlikely to ever require for reporting or analysis again. In these cases, it’s appropriate — and may be less expensive — to use archival storage instead of near-line storage.