November 18, 2008
Sherbrooke University Hospital Center Dramatically Reduces Maintenance Costs and Energy Demands of their Clinical Research Data-Warehouse Using SAND/DNA Analytics on HP Platforms
Montreal, Canada – Nov 18, 2008 — SAND Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), an international provider of data management software and best practices, announced today that the Sherbrooke University Hospital Centre (CHUS) has successfully completed an upgrade of the server used to run its clinical research data warehouse powered by SAND/DNA Analytics™ data management software. SAND/DNA Analytics fully leverages the increased processing power of the new platform, enabling CHUS to provide medical researchers with greatly improved access to the clinical data they require while substantially reducing total cost of ownership.
November 13, 2008
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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November 10, 2008
Nearline 2.0 and the Data Management Framework
In my last post, I outlined some of the advanced data modeling options that have been made possible by the advent of Nearline 2.0. Today, I want to discuss how Nearline 2.0 can act as an essential component in a data management framework. The data management framework, which can be viewed as an extension of the data model concept to the level of enterprise data architecture, governs the processing and management of enterprise data throughout its “lifecycle”, from creation to disposal. It includes all operational components, and covers key issues such as data backup, disaster recovery, data retention, data access security and so on.
November 3, 2008
Data Warehouse Evolution at TDWI New Orleans
November 5th 2008, 6pm – 7pm in meeting room Balcony N on the 4th floor. (Or visit Booth 306 on the exhibit floor.)
All the data you want, when and how you want it While lowering TCO and improving performance.
Sound impossible? Join SAND technology experts and executives to learn how you can implement a flexible Intelligent Information Management architecture, while leveraging your existing infrastructure to achieve true data-on-demand.
November 2, 2008
TDWI World Conference – New Orleans, LA
November 2-7, 2008, Booth #306
One of the harsh realities of data warehousing today is the urgent need to make more data more available, for more applications with more users – and to do so without causing a disruptive “revolution” in existing systems.
At TDWI New Orleans, you will have the opportunity to meet with SAND executives and technology experts to discuss how you can implement a flexible Intelligent Information Management architecture as an evolutionof your current data warehouse systems. SAND/DNA solutions leverage the existing infrastructure into which you have put years of effort and financial investment, creating a data warehouse architecture that allows you to keep massive and ever-growing amounts of data available at a greatly reduced TCO.
Find out how SAND/DNA can enable:
- Better management of larger amounts of information
- More efficient satisfaction of SLAs and business analysis requirements using a flexible and agile data framework
- Reduced backup and recovery times
- Accelerated data loading and query processing for reporting and analytics
- Enriched analytic functionality
- Better compliance with regulatory requirements.
October 27, 2008
Nearline 2.0 and Advanced Data Modeling
In my last post, I discussed the “Quick Check” method for identifying the benefits that a Nearline 2.0 implementation can deliver in the areas of operational performance, SLAs and TCO. Certainly, it is easy to see how it would be preferable to manage a database that is 1 TB rather than 20 TB in size, particularly when it comes to critical tasks like backup and recovery, disaster recovery, off-site backups and historical analytics. Today, however, I want to focus on another benefit of Nearline 2.0 that is less obvious but still very important: data modeling flexibility.
October 21, 2008
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.
October 20, 2008
Starting Nearline 2.0: The Quick Check Approach
In previous posts, I introduced the concept of “Best Practices” for Nearline 2.0. Today, I will get down to the details of how and where to start with a Nearline 2.0 solution, beginning with a Best Practices approach designed to quickly identify the benefits of such an implementation in a given environment. At SAND Technology, we offer this “Nearline 2.0 Quick Check” as part of our professional services portfolio.
October 14, 2008
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…
October 13, 2008
Nearline 2.0 Best Practices
In previous posts, we introduced the concept of Nearline 2.0, showed how it represented a significant step forward from traditional archiving practices, and discussed how Nearline 2.0 could help your business. To recapitulate: the major advantage of Nearline 2.0 is its superior data access performance, which enables a more aggressive approach to migrating data out of the online repository to nearline (a process known as “data nearlining”) than is practical when using a traditional archiving product. Read more…