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SAP BI Expert: 12 Best Practices for Information Lifecycle Management Using the NLS Interface

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:58:57 +0000

Richard Grondin, VP Product Development & Deployment, SAND Technology is featured in SAP BI Expert, Volume 8 (2010) in an article entitled 12 Best Practices for Information Lifecycle Management Using the NLS Interface

Using Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Nearline Storage (NLS) techniques enables organizations with SAP NetWeaver BW implementations to improve warehouse performance while considerably reducing database administration costs. In addition, using ILM with NLS improves your ability to manage and satisfy service level agreements. Discover the important aspects of ILM and garner best practices for using ILM with NLS.

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SAP INFO: Powerful Corporate Memory: Data management using nearline storage

admin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:56:26 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:46:19 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:48:17 +0000

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.

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Near-Line Storage Keeps Static Data Available – SAP NetWeaver Magazine

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:10:30 +0000

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.

Techworld.com – Ninety percent data compression at VW – and it’s not de-dupe

admin — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:50:09 +0000

The ability of SAND/DNA to compress selected data to an extremely high degree (approximately 90 percent on average) while making it available for use in reporting or as the basis for new DataStore objects or InfoCubes was the key factor in Volkswagen Financial Services’ decision. The low total cost of ownership, due to the need for far less administrative support as compared with standard archiving solutions, was also very appealing.

Volkswagen to Implement SAND/DNA Storage for SAP – TMCNet

admin — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:44:37 +0000

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.”

SAP INFO: From 650 to 25 GB in One Go: RI Solution moves SAP data to nearline store:

admin — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:06:04 +0000

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.

Jerry Shattner, EVP, SAND Technology – B-eye Network

admin — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:52:41 +0000

Jerry Shattner discusses how SAND/DNA enables organizations to store multiple terabytes of data and access it quickly without impacting current infrastructure.

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SAND aims at SAP users – Computer Business Review

admin — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:45:52 +0000

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.