Scalable Platform Optimized for Complex Decision Support Environments
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today's enterprisesface a constellation of challenges brought by soaring data volumes,increasingly complex analyses, multiple workflows, and ever larger populationsof users. Those trends are bearing down on the data warehouses thatorganizations rely on to turn raw data into actionable insights.
Now, a new SGI(R) solution optimized for Oracle(R) data warehousesaddresses the needs of this emerging class of enterprise customer. Builtspecifically for Complex Decision Support environments, the new data warehousesolution was launched today by SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC).
The new SGI(R) Adaptive Data Warehouse solution uses SGI technology firstdeveloped to deliver the performance, scalability and reliability needed forsuch data-intensive fields as battlefield intelligence, energy exploration,and weather modeling and forecasting.
With its ability to support bandwidth intensive applications, that samearchitecture shortens time to insight and boosts productivity for any customeranalyzing data to solve highly complex, large-scale problems. Increasingly,those customers include online merchants who handle high-volume transactions,organizations running sophisticated pattern recognition software to catchidentity thieves, and manufacturers whose complex decision support needs rangefrom sales analysis to supply chain management.
The solution, launched as part of the Oracle Optimized WarehouseInitiative, combines industry-leading Oracle Database software with SGI(R)Altix(R) servers and SGI(R) InfiniteStorage systems in a platform that scalesto meet the needs of customers whose requirements extend beyond thecapabilities of traditional enterprise computers.
Capable of supporting data warehouses ranging from 4 Terabytes (TB) tomore than 300TB, the SGI Adaptive Data Warehouse Solution allows organizationsto conduct highly complex, ad-hoc queries up to five times faster(1) thancompeting platforms. By achieving insights sooner, enterprises can morereadily adapt to changing business conditions and the demands of advancedbusiness intelligence (BI) applications.
Furthermore, the SGI solution allows Oracle data warehouse customers toscale their I/O bandwidth without having to add unnecessary components. Byleveraging the SGI Altix server architecture's unique ability to independentlyscale I/O, CPUs and memory, customers can create a data warehouse that expandsefficiently and economically as their requirements demand.
'Data volumes are exploding, workloads are increasingly varied and usercommunities are multiplying - and all of these trends are puttingunprecedented pressure on data warehouses,' said Jean S. Bozman, research vicepresident, Enterprise Servers, IDC.
