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…
Why Simple Scalability is the key to Big Data
Everyone is talking about Big Data, the tsunami of information which has been steadily growing and growing as a result of our increasingly digital world. Everything you do these days, from doing driving your car to shopping to watching tv and surfing the web, is now being captured as digital…
Hadoop: The elephant in the room
A wise mentor of mine used to comment on start-ups by saying “it is our job as executives to work out if there’s a pony in the room or just a room full of pony poop.” He would describe how, upon opening the door to a room full of poop,…
SAND SAP PartnerEdge Webinar, July 21
SAP PartnerEdge will be hosting a webinar with SAND on July 21st 2011 at 11:00 am EST/8 am PST In today’s world, the ever growing business needs and enormous amounts of data are very challenging for warehouses to deliver performance. At the same time the user’s analytic, ad hoc requests…
SAND Announces Partnership with Uniserv
MONTREAL, Quebec, June 21, 2011 — SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), provider of leading column database software today announced a strategic partnership with Uniserv, the largest pure-play supplier of data quality in Europe. “I’m very pleased to have Uniserv as an OEM partner of SAND”, said Mike Pilcher, Chief Operating…
TDWI: V is for Big Data Volume
Philip Russom, writing for *TDWI*, likes the three Vs of big data, and takes a look at Volume: >It’s pretty obvious that data volume is the primary attribute of big data. With that in mind, some people have asked me for a definitive number quantifying the volume, a common question…
iWeb: Giving BI the driver’s seat
Yolanda Smit, writing for *iWeb Business*, continues her series on how “super-companies” have not kept up with the BI times: >Business intelligence should become the control panel that empowers management to effectively steer the organisation towards strategic achievement. Part of the challenge: >Strategy committees put a lot of effort into…