Enterprise Systems | Nearline Solutions: Reducing Data Storage Infrastructure Costs
By Jerry Shattner
In an age when the data volumes handled by organizations are growing exponentially, it is becoming impossibly expensive to maintain all enterprise data in a traditional “online” data warehouse while providing adequate performance and service levels to users. Implementing a nearline component is an ideal way to relieve the main warehouse of the burden of data that is rarely changed, while still keeping it readily available for access when required. A nearline solution will ultimately enable you to greatly reduce expenditures on storage infrastructure, not simply by offering high levels of data compression, but also by reducing the amounts of data that need to be replicated or moved across the network in the course of normal warehouse operations.
Driving Business Value with ILM-Enabled Database Archives - DM Direct
By Jerry Shattner
Use of column-based data compression technology allows for storage of relational data in what is essentially a pre-indexed format, alleviating the requirement for storing or building indexes at restore time. This design significantly reduces the overall storage needed for the database. Column-based storage also significantly improves data compression: being made up of a single data type, each column of data can be compressed much more efficiently than rows of data, which by definition include many different data types. This technology can also further reducing the data footprint by selecting the best optimized compression strategy for each data type.
Jerry Shattner, EVP, SAND Technology - B-eye Network
Jerry Shattner discusses how SAND/DNA enables organizations to store multiple terabytes of data and access it quickly without impacting current infrastructure.
SAND/DNA Provides CRM Analytics For Korean Portal - TMCNet
By David Sims
Using SAND/DNA Analytics, [NHN] officials claim, “all the data, down to the most detailed level, is available for querying immediately after it is loaded, permitting quick and easy access by business users employing industry-standard business intelligence tools or methods.” SAND/DNA Analytics does not require indexing.
SAND aims at SAP users - Computer Business Review
Canadian data repository maker SAND Technology Inc has begun targeting SAP AG’s customer base, by launching a version of its software tailored for use with SAP’s Netweaver BI software.
BusinessIntelligence.com :: SAND Technology Expands Next-Generation Capabilities in Dynamic Nearline Architecture Product Suite
“The explosive growth in the size and quantity of databases is a well-known phenomenon in virtually every vertical industry,” said Joshua Greenbaum, principal of Enterprise Applications Consulting (EAC). “Making intelligent use of this data is now seen as a major part of companies’ efforts to improve their operational efficiency; to better serve customers and partners; to develop, market and sell better products; and to stay on top of their regulatory and compliance requirements. SAND Technology’s SAND/DNA reveals a unique and creative way to solve the problems endemic to data warehouse archiving.”
InfoWorld | SAND/DNA Digs Into Compressed Data
Sand Technology this week updated its DNA Dynamic Nearline Architecture data management technology, which compresses data to about 10 percent of its original size and allows the stored data to be searched without being decompressed. Sand is integrating its Sand/DNA Analytics analytic data repository with its SAND/DNA Access storage archival product, and adding new features to both offerings. The integration allows end-users to pull information transparently from SAND/DNA Access and load it into SAND/DNA Analytics using standard business intelligence tools. This removes much of the time spent on data modeling, according to SAND officials. Sand also introduced SAND/DNA for SAP Business Warehouse, which allows users to move, store, and access highly compressed data from a nearline data repository.
Application Development Trends - SAND upgrades promise info-on-demand
By Kathleen Richards
SAND Technology has upgraded its data archiving and analytics technology, repackaged it and gained certification for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence. The company’s Analytic Server and Searchable Archives, based on technology originally developed at Lockheed, are now part of the SAND Dynamic Nearline Architecture. SAND/DNA is a suite of products which allow companies to compress data to about 10 to 15 percent of its raw size, store it in a nearline repository, then retrieve the data for business analysis, using SQL-based tools, without decompressing it first.
The Trouble With Terabytes > > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions
By Joshua Greenbaum
One archiving vendor, SAND Technology, can create what it calls a “near-line” archive that can be queried without a complex restore process. SAND’s compression technology also reduces the overall data footprint by an order of magnitude. This means that SAND can solve the cost, throughput and data storage problems, thus giving archiving a much-needed image upgrade.