Wanna know how to rate a data warehouse appliance?
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A handy list of rules One of the major discussion points at Bloor Research's recent conference on "Data Warehousing: the rise of the appliance" was a discussion of the rules (though they might equally be regarded as reference points rather than rules) that might apply to data warehouse appliances as opposed to enterprise data warehouses.â¦
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Michael Kimsal (and his bother Mark) were talking about the state of ecommerce applications, specifically about the latest "hot topic" software - Magento.   My brother Mark has been doing a long term project based on Magento doing a lot of custom work on top of it, and has told me many points, both good and bad, about it.    According to Michael and Mark, speed of the application is a big hindrance. They also mention two points that could help make an ecommerce system so much easier to integrate into the "blogosphere" - publishing a blog feed of some of the user feedback about orders/products/etc and accept trackbacks from an external blog post reviewing the products.
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(InfoWorld) - Quantum introduced a disk storage appliance Monday that could both appeal to enterprise customers and improve its partnerships with other storage vendors. Quantum's DXi7500 is an integrated data deduplication, disk backup, and tape archiving device, also called a VTL (virtual tape library), that is a complement to the smaller DXi3500 and DXi5500 modelsÂ Quantum introduced in December 2006. The DXi7500 offers up to 240TB of disk storage capacity, versus 4.2TB and 11TB for the 3500 and 5500, respectively. A terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes of data. The new model also has a healthy appetite for data, deduplicating and saving it to disk at the rate of 8TB per hour. The DXi7500 would serve an enterprise by taking data already deduplicated by the smaller DX appliances at remote offices of a company and deduplicating it further, said Mike Sparkes, product manager for disk systems at Quantum. Deduplication is the software-based process of searching through data and eliminating multiple copies of files so that less data needs to be saved to disk storage. The Quantum system also creates a backup tape copy of that data, which is stored for archiving purposes. The system eliminates the need for tape backup at remote locations, which can be difficult for limited staffs there to manage. "Suddenly, you get to retain two or three months of backup data instead of two or three days," said Sparkes. "Instead of just being a buffer to tape, which VTLs have usually been, it becomes more of a permanent repository of backup data." The DXi7500 also gives enterprise storage managers the option of using either the in-line or post-process approach to saving to disk. With the in-line approach, data is transferred from a production server to the disk storage appliance for deduplication, but that is a time-consuming process that ties up the server, preventing it from doing more computing. The post-process approach moves data off the server quickly so the server can get back to work, but requires additional capacity in the storage appliance to hold all that data while it deduplicates it. Giving storage administrators a choice is welcome, said Robert Amatruda, research manager at IDC. "What they are doing is to provide some flexibility for the customers." VTLÂ technology is a nascent market, Amatruda said. IDC forecasts market revenue to grow to $4.1 billion by 2011 and for the amount of data stored in VTL systems to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 47.4 percent over the same period. Quantum can leverage the DXi7500 to strengthen existing ties with OEMs, such as Hewlett-Packard, Sun, and others, said Greg Schulz, founder of Storage I/O Group, an industry research and consulting firm. "Quantum sells a turnkey solution, which means for an OEM that they can just put their logo on it andÂ rebadge it, and people will buy it knowing it's a Quantum-based product," said Schulz.
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Question: We're in the early stages of startup and beginning to shop for technology. We'll need basic hardware and software, plus many other technology and Web-based services to sell online, service customers and keep it all secure.
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Virtualised SAN and NAS bid for your storage grid
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TechWeb - Now with easy customization and process integration, will utility apps dominate?
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What the Dell and EMC partnerships really mean When DATAllegro announced earlier this year that it had partnered with Dell to provide node processing capabilities and EMC to be its disk provider I was not particularly impressed.â¦
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EMC Corp. widened its lead as the world's top seller of data storage computers over Hewlett-Packard Co. and International Business Machines Corp. in the second quarter, researcher Gartner Inc. said. In the second quarter, EMC's sales of the machines that organize and retrieve data rose to 23.1 percent of the worldwide market, or $745.6 million, from 20.6 percent a year ...
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(InfoWorld) - Competing with Dell Inc. for small business users who need to back up their data, Hewlett-Packard Co. launched a low-priced, disk-based backup and recovery system on Monday. The HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System will automatically save the data from as many as four servers, with total capacity of either 750G bytes or 1.5T bytes. Users can restore lost files within minutes, compared to a process of several hours for a tape-based system, HP said. Most users say that tape-based systems are the most cost-effective method of backing up data, but as new accounting laws demand greater storage regulations, that could soon change, said Adam Thew, marketing director for HP's StorageWorks division. Compared to connecting a direct-attached tape storage device to every server in a business, HP's new disk-to-disk product can reduce the cost of ownership and chance of human error, Thew said during a webcast Monday. The D2D system is designed for small business owners with little IT management experience, offering a simple setup wizard interface, Web-based monitoring, and standard Ethernet cables with iSCSI (Internet Small Computer Systems Interface). Still, HP says tape-based storage is important for a complete backup system. "D2D will not replace tapes entirely. We do recommend that customers keep a single tape-based system offsite for disaster recovery," Thew said. Dell and its partner EMC Corp. launched a similar backup system on Feb. 20, offering the disk-based CX3-10 SAN (storage area network) array for small and medium businesses. Like HP, Dell says its system works best in concert with tape-based storage, and also launched two new products in its tape library line, the PowerVault TL2000 and PowerVault TL4000. Dell's systems are intended for buyers with larger storage needs and hardware budgets than HP's, with the CX3-10 starting at US$22,000 and the PowerVault libraries starting at 9,300. HP sells the D2D110 model with 750G bytes useable storage capacity for $1,999, and the D2D120 model with 1.5T bytes for $2,999. HP charges $1,000 more to bundle its Data Protector Express software with the products.
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Decide to do something about portable data storage now rather than later. Let your auditors and risk management staff know that 4GB dip sticks are here, and 1.6TB gel disks are around the corner.
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Bye bye to Buy! Buy! Another day, another silly survey, this time claiming that nearly two million UK small businesses are "putting their data and productivity at risk by using old technology to run their business". Why? because they replace their PCs rarely or never, and miss out on all sorts of good things, such as happy staff, cheaper running costs, and smaller "footprints" and lower repair bills.â¦
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A snapshot profile of Auto Warehousing Co.
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Review Can it appeal to novice and pro alike?
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A look at Oracle, ParAccel and Calpont A lot has been happening on the data warehousing front lately. Earlier this summer, Oracle announced its Information Appliance initiative and, in particular, a partnership with PANTA Systems. Then, more recently, ParAccel has announced a product re-positioning, Calpont is finally talking about its entry into the market, and both DATAllegro and Netezza have announced new product releases. In this article I am going to discuss Oracle, ParAccel and Calpont (for reasons which will become obvious) while in the second part I will direct my attention towards DATAllegro and Netezza.â¦
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ParAccel, a new company based in San Diego, this week released a database for midsize companies that combines a number of BI-oriented features at a low price point.The company is targeting the middle of the midmarket, not smaller businesses, according to vice president of marketing Kim Stanick. &quot;You have to have a certain amount of data before our product becomes compelling for you,&quot; she said.The software does not provide radical new technology, but ParAccel is touting its database&#39;s columnar orientation and MPP (massively parallel processing) capabilities. The company argues that columnar databases are more effective for&#160;BI applications because users can query just the desired columns of a given row, saving bandwidth.&quot;That itself is a nice product set, especially with the price point,&quot; Stanick said.ParAccel is offering the database as a software package or incorporated into a hardware appliance. It can also be deployed as a &quot;drop in&quot; accelerator for existing SQL Server and Oracle databases. The company said the database is compatible with all major brands of hardware.A number of licensing options are available. All-in-memory systems cost $1,000 per gigabyte, beginning at 100GB. Disk-based systems cost $40,000 per node plus $10,000 per terabyte, starting at five nodes. Subscriptions cost $5,000 a month and up.ParAccel counts some notable names among its management team. One of Oracle&#39;s co-founders, Bruce Scott, is vice president of engineering.The startup originally positioned its product as an accelerator for SQL Server, but in response to market interest widened its focus to include data warehousing and Oracle&#39;s platform. This week&#39;s announcement doubled as the official company launch for ParAccel, which joins an increasingly crowded market for data warehousing.ParAccel also announced benchmarking figures for its database running on Sun Fire X4100 and Blade 6000 servers. According to the company, the combination set TPC-H (ad-hoc, decision support) records for performance in the 1TB category. Sun and ParAccel are also partnering on a data warehousing product.
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Internal disk eats away at DAS IBM and HP are neck-and-neck for the second place position in the external disk storage market but remain well behind EMC for top billing, according to the latest report by research house IDC.â¦
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(Source: Network Appliance) The focus on this independent study was a comparison of the total cost of enterprise-level Network Appliance, HP and EMC storage products in Oracle, IBM DB2&trade;, Microsoft SQL Server&trade; and other database environments.  Download this white paper to review their findings.