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.
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 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.