SAND Technology Announces Support for PMML
MONTREAL—November 16, 2010— SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), today announced the introduction of support for the PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language) standard for statistical and data mining models in its industry-leading SAND CDBMS column-oriented, tokenized, bit-vector database. This new feature extends the power of SAND CDBMS to handle Extreme Data…
Extreme Data
Last week I met with the team at Gartner and we discussed the concept of “Extreme Data”. Gartner states there are three dimensions to Extreme Data — volume, velocity, and variety, — and these dimensions are critical when it comes to winning the battle for control of enterprise data amid…
The secret data warehouse tax
There’s a dirty little secret in the traditional transactional data warehouse world: they know how to tax you as effectively as any profligate government. You invest in your data warehouse. You invest time. You invest money. You dedicate personnel and resources to your data warehouse. You pay the vendor to…
Bringing the Analytic Data Warehouse to the Cloud
Previously I wrote about Apple’s Steve Jobs and the importance of great software. Now it’s time for antithesis; Ray Ozzie, who recently announced he was leaving the position he inherited from Bill Gates, that of Microsoft’s chief software visionary. When Ozzie joined Microsoft he released a memo setting out a…
On openness, integration, and the importance of great software
The topic of platform openness vs. tight hardware integration, and the importance of great software is once again lighting up the blogsphere, thanks to comments made last week by Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs. The iPhone and iPad maker’s remarks, directed towards rival Research in Motion, were biting. He accused RIM…
Real-time business intelligence requires innovation, not integration
I gave my take on the IBM Netezza acquisition yesterday, but Steve Lohr’s post, *I.B.M.’s Hybrid Strategy in Business Intelligence*, on *the New York Times* blog caught my eye. In it, Lohr says: >The real-time model of business intelligence, though, requires not just software, but a tight integration with hardware….
SAND at TDWI Solution Summit: Deep Analytics and Big Data, Oct. 3-5 in San Diego
SAND will be attending TDWI’s Solution Summit on Deep Analytics and Big Data, October 3-5 in San Diego. >The TDWI Solution Summit shows you how to compete using analytics. Through case studies and expert presentations, you will learn how to leverage new analytical databases and computational techniques to gain valuable…
IBM and Netezza: 1990 is calling, wants its database strategy back
It seems like just the other day I was shaking my head at the determination of relational database vendors to keep fine-tuning their legacy software in order to optimize it for dedicated proprietary hardware. In essence, to deliver the last drips of performance by acquiring huge alloy wheels, an enormous…
Leading Media Service Provider GroupM Uses SAND CDBMS to Power High-Performance Customer Analytics for Targeted Marketing Campaigns
Montreal, September 16, 2010 – SAND Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), provider of leading column-oriented database software, today announced that GroupM, one of the world’s leading media service providers, has implemented a SAND CDBMS solution to optimize its customer analytics platform for targeted marketing campaigns. The GroupM network specializes in “targeting”…
SAND Technology Announces Release of SAND CDBMS 6
MONTREAL—September 14, 2010— SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), today announced the general availability of SAND CDBMS 6, the latest release of its industry-leading massively parallel, column-oriented database management system. SAND CDBMS 6 is specifically designed to deliver optimal performance for complex analytics on massive and continuously growing amounts of data,…