Volkswagen to Implement SAND/DNA Storage for SAP - TMCNet
By David Sims
The first customer worldwide to use the newest version of the SAP NetWeaver product, Volkswagen Financial Services, chose SAND/DNA for what SAND officials describe as “maximum nearline functionality enabling the company to store and effectively manage its rapidly growing volumes of data.”
NCR Exits the Data Warehouse Market: See You Later, Teradater? | ZDNet.com
By Joshua Greenbaum
Finally, there’s the third way, data archiving. One of the smarter ways to save a bundle on the Teradata model is to off-load your non-essential data warehouse data (i.e. most of it, in most cases) into an archival system that, if well-designed, can be orders of magnitude cheaper and easier to manage as well. One good example of this is SAND Technology’s data-archiving solution. Again, the watchwords are faster, better, cheaper. And, in this case, SAND offers a reasonable solution to the sanitary landfill problem: dump the data in a cheap and highly acessible archive, and at a minimum stop paying the big bucks to store information you may never need to user.
SAP INFO: From 650 to 25 GB in One Go: RI Solution moves SAP data to nearline store:
By Michael Hahne
The IT service provider RI Solution GmbH has achieved a compression rate of 96 percent for its data in SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence. Thanks to nearline storage, the company is saving on archiving costs and at the same time has lower administration expense. In addition, users can access InfoCubes and PSA objects without any loss in performance.
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.