Your Enterprise Data Archiving Strategy [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- With growing data volume, increasing data security breaches, and complex application-performance issues, most enterprises today face significant data management challenges. Keeping inactive data online not only creates security risk but also increases infrastructure and database cost. Some enterprises are literally throwing away data to minimize complexity and lower these costs. Although there are several better options available to control data growth, data archiving is the best long-term solution to ...

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Enterprise Strategies to Improve Application Testing [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- Ensuring the accuracy, reliability and quality of your critical business applications has never been more important. Why? Because companies across industries depend on mission-critical enterprise applications to drive their business initiatives. In turn, those applications rely on relational databases to store and manage the underlying enterprise data. The ability to enhance, maintain, customize and upgrade those sophisticated applications is critical for achieving long-term business goals. Companies are striving to ...

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Streamline Enterprise Application Upgrades [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- The enterprise applications that you rely on to run your business must remain current if you want them to deliver competitive advantage consistently. In view of a number of business drivers-including changing processes and requirements, upgrade deadlines issued by vendors and new and emerging technology?many companies are facing an enterprise application upgrade in the near future. This does not have to be the fatiguing and disruptive process that ...

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Anatomy of an Archiving Project [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- What are the basic principles for planning a successful archiving project? What are the benefits? Companies worldwide are affirming the value of enterprise data management and database archiving as a best practice. The benefits include managing data growth, retiring or consolidating applications and supporting compliance initiatives to satisfy data retention and e discovery requirements. Learn about the seven basic principles that can make ...

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Thinking outside the data warehouse eBook [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- This high level, business problem focused eBook uses 5 customer scenarios to show how people and organizations are tackling real issues using IBM solutions. It is 20 pages, fully interactive and covers IBM?s overall Warehousing portfolio of offerings, inclusive of: • IBM Smart Analytics System • IBM Netezza family of appliances • InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7.3 • Informix Time Series • InfoSphere Warehouse Packs & Industry Models

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Using BD for Smarter Decision Making Analytist Report [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- This paper, by Colin White, BI research, looks at new developments in business analytics and discusses the benefits analyzing big data bring to the business. It also examines different types of big data workloads and offers suggestions on how to optimize systems to handle different workloads and integrate them into a single infrastructure for making smarter and faster business decisions.

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In-Memory Analytics for Big Data [ Source: SAS ]
May 2012- This paper describes the SAS® LASR™ Analytic Server - a new breed of distributed in-memory analytic architecture for the next generation of high-performance analytics. SAS LASR Analytic Server's unmatched performance and scalability provide the ability to answer questions that previously were computationally infeasible. It enables users to explore data and analyze a variety of big data problems, including areas such as risk management, customer intelligence, revenue optimization, and assortment and merchandise ...

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TDWI Monograph Series: Seven Keys to High-Performance Data Management for Advanced Analytics [ Source: SAS ]
May 2012- Advanced analytics should not live in a world separate from BI systems. Where BI systems provide the most value through dashboards, reports and tracking of performance metrics, advanced analytics can offer highly complementary technology. To get the most out of advanced analytics, organizations need to include high-performance computing in their data management practices and technology deployments. High-performance computing can enable organizations to overcome performance bottlenecks and other challenges that ...

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SAS® High-Performance Analytics [ Source: SAS ]
May 2012- Faster results and high-impact outcomes enable organizations to think of scenarios that were never before possible. Instant results allow these smarter organizations to take advantage of market changes well before their competitors do. This paper introduces SAS High-Performance Analytics, and explains how this new offering from SAS, and partners EMC Greenplum and Teradata, offers game-changing benefits to businesses. All analysts know that creating ...

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Drive Your Business with Predictive Analytics [ Source: SAS ]
May 2012- At 2.6 quintillion bytes of data being created annually, 90 percent of all the data in the world has been created in the past two years. While this unprecedented increase in information is presenting challenges for many companies, others are successfully using it to drive their businesses toward higher profits. This white paper gives one example after another of how the latest advances in analytics are turning big data into competitive advantage. <br&...

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