Old cars and data warehouses
I read a post the other day involving two people arguing about which one of their boxes was better. Teradata this. Exadata that. They spent all their time “working” on their system so they had a lot of ammunition for their argument. I suppose if you want to spend your…
If Larry ran Apple and Oracle made iPads…?
Apple looks like they have another hit on their hands with iPad 2 and if reports of their enterprise adoption rates are accurate, we’ll only be seeing more of them in business. Now, perhaps, we see why Steve Jobs called it the most important product he’d ever worked on. But…
Extreme Data Velocity
extreme data varieties ranging from ERP to Social Media feeds and the associated explosion in the extreme data volumes is of increasing concern to the enterprise. How fast the data enters the enterprise and how fast it is accessed by users is critical to the equation. Legacy vendors have not…
The column database singles circuit
Derrik Harris, writing for Giga Om on *Why ParAccel’s Time on the Big Data Singles Circuit Won’t Be Long*: >Greenplum, Netezza, Vertica, Aster Data Systems — one by one, they all got bought, leaving ParAccel standing all but alone as an independent company dedicated to the cause of analyzing big…
The key to SAP BW performance
What do some of the largest companies in the world have in common? They use SAND’s certified, integrated Nearline solution to improve SAP BW performance. On March 29, 2011 SAND Chief Operating Officer Mike Pilcher presented a special webinar on the **key to achieving SAP BW performance** — the one…
5 big changes in Consumer Analytics
SAND powers hundreds of terabytes, thousands of users, and the most complex Consumer Analytics in the world for companies like dunnhumby, Krogers, Tesco, and Home Depot. On March 1, 2011 SAND Chief Operating Officer Mike Pilcher presented a special webinar on the **5 big changes in Consumer Analytics** and outlining…