Sand Technology has developed the Sand Searchable
Archive product, which is claimed to provide high data compression
rates for efficient data storage without compromising the ability
for business people to quickly access data.
"Users should begin to incorporate database archiving as an
aspect of overall data management and infrastructure maintenance,"
argued Charlie Garry, an analyst at Meta Group, "We expect the
database archive market to reach £1.4bn by the end of 2007."
Data warehouses are now reaching multiple terabytes in size,
with no apparent end in sight. New regulatory requirements mean
that this data has to be kept accessible for a number of years.
Sand Searchable Archive is designed to help organisations manage
this runaway growth while maintaining service levels to data
users.
"The combination of continued dramatic increases in the amounts
of business data with the new regulatory and compliance environment
now requires organisations to keep more data for more time in a
user-accessible form," said Arthur Ritchie, Sand's chief
executive.
"The Sand Searchable Archive was developed to allow
organisations to fight tera-flation by efficiently keeping their
historic data at lower storage costs, and still having it easily
accessible to business users when it's needed."
The Sand Searchable Archive is a compact analytic data
repository that typically stores data in less than 10% of the space
required by an equivalent relational data warehouse.
Sand Searchable Archive's read-only archive files can be
searched using standard business intelligence tools and methods
without decompressing the data first.
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