NYT: When There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Information
Steve Lohr reporting for the *New York Times*, casts the spotlight on the data explosion, and the opportunities it can provide for companies savvy enough to take advantage of it. >In a modern economy, information should be the prime asset — the raw material of new products and services, smarter…
3 keys to kickstarting SAP HANA In-Memory Computing
Considering the new SAP HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance), in-memory computing platform to improve your database performance and wondering how to get it implemented faster and with lower total cost? here’s what you need to do: 1. **Understand the licensing**. The licensing of the new HANA database is based on data…
Angry Databases
Data warehouses consume data at an alarming rate, getting larger, fatter, greedier, and slower with each passing day. They hide themselves behind impenetrable walls of batch loads, data cleansing, index building, and data augmentation. And there they sit, chortling like an appliance salesperson, content that, no matter how many nodes…
SAND Technology Announces SAND v2 for SAS
###Extending Functionality for Rapid, Cost-Effective Storage and Immediate Access for Large Volumes of SAS Data Montreal, Canada – April 13, 2011 SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), today announced the immediate availability of the second version of SAND native connector for SAS®. Based on SAND Analytics’ patented column database technology, SAND…
The demand for Big Data
Deborah Gage, writing for the Wall Street Journal on how *The Big Data Revolution Will Affect Us From Head To Toe*, based on a conversation with John Webster, storage analyst at the Evaluator Group, at SNW Spring 2011 >”Big data is about getting creative – it’s about leveraging the technology,…
SAND announces multi-dimensional reality alteration in-database analytics
April 1st, 2011 — SAND today announced the general availability of SAND multi-dimensional reality alteration in-database analytics. Legacy technologies have tried to alter reality for years but SAND has taken this concept to a new level. Using the works of Tom Weiler of Vanderbilt University SAND’s multi-dimensional reality alteration analytic…