Top 5 signs your SAS environment needs SAND CDBMS Nearline
There are several signs that your SAS environment needs SAND CDBMS Nearline for SAS. In my experience, these are the 5 most common: ###1. Extreme data. When the size of your SAS environment is starting to grow, it’s a sign you need SAND CDBMS Nearline. Data growth can creep up…
Storage is getting cheaper but bandwidth isn't keeping up: how SAND CDBMS Nearline for SAS lightened dunnhumby's load
Dunnhumby handles retail analytics for over 350 million retail customers on behalf of companies like Tesco, Home Depot, and Kroger. When they first approached SAND, they were looking for a solution to help with the data recovery architecture for their SAS implementation. The main problem was the sheer size of…
Regarding column-oriented databases (CDBMS), Text Search analytics, and how shouting “first!” doesn’t get you the gold
Whether it’s column-based analytics or the Olympics, if running across the finish line yelling, “I’m first! Look at me! Look at me!” three hours after the race finished got you the gold, athletes would spend a lot of time developing their diaphragms and vocal chords, and much less time putting…
Thoughts on SAP and Sybase
There is a lot of buzz surrounding SAP’s just-announced acquisition of Sybase. I’ve been asked a lot of questions about it — what it means for the column-based database market in general and SAND CDBMS in specific — and thought I would share my take. SAP is a smart company….
Can SAND Nearline for SAP BW help enhance SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator?
###*SearchSAP.com* recently asked if SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA) costs were worth the benefit, and pointed out alternatives including nearline as part of an ILM strategy. >”BWA is a necessary ingredient once you reach a certain size but implementing ILM and archiving can dramatically improve query performance. A good strategy…
Using XAM with Nearline 2.0 to Ensure Data Compliance
Recently, SAND has been conducting tests on our SAND/DNA Access product to benchmark its support for the XAM (eXtensible Access Method) API. These tests, executed at EMC’s lab in Hopkinton, Mass. using the latest version of EMC’s Centera solution, were a great success in a number of respects, and the…
Nearline 2.0 and the Data Management Framework
In my last post, I outlined some of the advanced data modeling options that have been made possible by the advent of Nearline 2.0. Today, I want to discuss how Nearline 2.0 can act as an essential component in a data management framework. The data management framework, which can be…
Nearline 2.0 and Advanced Data Modeling
In my last post, I discussed the “Quick Check” method for identifying the benefits that a Nearline 2.0 implementation can deliver in the areas of operational performance, SLAs and TCO. Certainly, it is easy to see how it would be preferable to manage a database that is 1 TB rather…
Starting Nearline 2.0: The Quick Check Approach
In previous posts, I introduced the concept of “Best Practices” for Nearline 2.0. Today, I will get down to the details of how and where to start with a Nearline 2.0 solution, beginning with a Best Practices approach designed to quickly identify the benefits of such an implementation in a…
Nearline 2.0 Best Practices
In previous posts, we introduced the concept of Nearline 2.0, showed how it represented a significant step forward from traditional archiving practices, and discussed how Nearline 2.0 could help your business. To recapitulate: the major advantage of Nearline 2.0 is its superior data access performance, which enables a more aggressive…