SAND announces partnership with Averna
Montreal, Canada – May 25, 2011 SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), provider of leading column database software today announced a strategic partnership with Averna, a global test engineering company for communications and electronics device makers worldwide. Averna will be embedding SAND’s patented, high-performance analytic database in their test analytics product…
What to look for when you’re considering column store
The first item you need to consider is why choose a column store over the standard row databases such as Oracle or DB2, or even the data partitioning varieties such as Teradata or Netezza. ###1. Do you need a column store? Generally, row-oriented architectures are geared towards OLTP-type workloads which,…
Globe and Mail: Small companies, Big Data
Lynn Greiner, writing for *The Globe and Mail*, points out how small companies aren’t immune from the challenges of dealing with Big Data: >Small used to mean, relatively speaking, small profits, small staff and small buildings. But today, in the information age, small is irrelevant when it comes to data….
Fake 4G networks and crippled column databases
There’s a recent trend among North American mobile carriers to re-brand their 3G cellular networks as “4G”. Originally meant to classify networks approaching 100 Mbps, Sprint began using “4G” for their WiMax network and now – comically – AT&T for their barely 14.4 Mbps HSPA+ phones. Why? It’s easier to…
SAND at SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 iPad Give Away
You met with SAND product manager Serge Bonin, and Bob Pryzby at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2011, now and you can take home a brand new iPad 2 for your family or friends! They’ll love it almost as much as you’ll love the performance improvements and cost savings you’ll get from…
SAND at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 in Orlando – May 15–18, 2011
SAND Technology will be at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 in Orlando, Florida from May 15–18, 2011. Join SAND experts and product managers to find out how [SAND’s SAP-certified solution](https://sandtechnology.com/analytics/native-connectors/nearline-sap/) increases SAP BW performance, lowers costs, stores large amounts of data, helps kickstart HANA, and supports SAP’s recommended ILM and layered…
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…