Hadoop redux
I recently wondered aloud about [Hadoop and its place in the modern enterprise](https://sandtechnology.com/hadoop-elephant-room/). I received a lot of feedback on that post, and it brought a few other questions to mind. Hadoop is an Apache project based on some papers Google released on their Map Reduce and Google File System…
The 3 Keys to Loyalty Marketing in 2012 and Beyond
At the heart of effective Customer Loyalty Management is the data that represents customers and their interaction with your business. There are three key areas to managing this big data: depth, breadth and speed. Breadth of big data focuses on accessing as much historical data as is relevant. Depth of…
Getting Big Information from Big Data
Big Data has exploded, and it can either bury you and your business, or provide greater amounts of insight into customers and potential customers than ever before. In 2007 the total of Global Data was estimated to be 297 exabytes, equivalent to 1.2 billion average hard drives, or the entire…
Big Data: How to Release the Value
Enterprises are investing heavily in BI tools to deal with the deluge of Big Data, they are only capturing the tip of the iceberg, and failing to tap the full potential of their data. Fortunately, new technologies now make it possible for companies to roll out analytics enterprise-wide, with a…
Business Intelligence: How to Deploy Analytics Fast
Companies that want to rapidly deploy BI applications across the enterprise, with Big Users and Big Data, need to ensure that they have their data in the right place at the right time. By following Agile BI Methodology, using best-of-breed BI tools, and ensuring adequate database performance, enterprises can achieve…
Best of breed
I am an advocate of making hardware and software implementations as simple as possible for everyone involved. When it comes to “version 1” of Data Warehouse Appliances, however, I become Pooh Bear. Pooh, you see, has a small brain and when a new thought enters it, he has to push…
How denormalization works in a column data store
Denormalized data models provide increased performance and ease of use. Most documentation about denormalization is taken from the view of the row-based data store, not the column-based data store. Row-based data store environments may encounter negative aspects when using denormalization, such as – Using more disk space – Being required…
SAND Technology Announces MicroStrategy Certification
MONTREAL, July 5, 2011 — SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB:SNDTF.OB.ob – News), provider of the world’s most advanced column store database, today announced that SAND Analytics has passed MicroStrategy’s comprehensive test suite, certifying it as a supported database for the MicroStrategy platform. “SAND and MicroStrategy are the ideal combination for enterprises…
At Zynga Big Data is no game
Derrick Harris, writing for *GigaOm* highlights the important of Big Data and advanced analytics at Farmville creator, Zynga. >Our physical network infrastructure utilizes a mixture of our own datacenters and public cloud datacenters linked with high-speed networking. We utilize commodity hardware, and our architecture is designed for high availability and…