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- HP StorageWorks MSA2000sa Configuration: Best Practices White Paper
- The MSA2000sa is a direct attach 3 Gb SAS connected 2U Storage Area Network SAN solution designed for small to medium size deployments or remote locations. It comes in two models - a basic single-controller model for low initial cost with the ability to upgrade later and a model with...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, SAS Institute, Model, Best Practice, MSA2000sa, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-07-01
- The Power of Spatially-Enabled Master Address Data Management
- This webinar provides an understanding of the anatomy of addresses and address systems - their complexities, importance, and optimal use. It presents solutions and applications for government and private organizations as well as technical strategies for EAS database creation and data maintenance. The webinar emphasizes the integration of an EAS...
- Tags: Webinar, SAS Institute, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-04-17
- New Architecture and Speed With a Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance
- One of the biggest challenges organizations have is how they store and retrieve for analysis large amounts of data. This problem has plagued industries for years. As data sizes grow into Terabytes and Petabytes, organizations continue to face these challenges as users want to analyze and report on 'The whole...
- Tags: Appliance, Data Warehouse, SAS Institute, Netezza, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Data Integration With SAS Intelligence Storage: How a Business Division in a Fortune 50 Company Uses SAS Scalable Performance Data Server to Make Better Decisions
- The business division integrates the data sources with SAS into one of the world's largest SAS Intelligence Storage systems. The largest component is SAS SPD Server data libraries with 25 TB terabytes of storage where the paper has analytical control of the data. The paper also has SAS OLAP Server...
- Tags: Performance, Storage, SAS Institute, Data Integration, Business Division
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2003: Storage Performance Characterization of HP Smart Array P600 SAS Vs. HP SA6402 Ultra3 SCSI Controllers
- This paper provides a performance comparison between an HP Smart Array P600 controller with 10K RPM SAS drives and an HP Smart Array 6402 (SA6402) controller configured with 10K RPM Ultra 3 SCSI drives and with 15K RPM Ultra320 SCSI drives. The results of these comparisons demonstrate the benefits of...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Exchange Server, SCSI, SAS Institute, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Deploying SAS Intelligence Storage on the Sun Fire X4600 Server and the Sun StorageTek 6540 Storage
- The Sun Fire X4600 is an 8-socket dual core AMD processor server that offers excellent performance for SAS applications. Sun and SAS have published performance results of SAS Intelligence Storage technologies running on the Sun Fire X45001, a 2-socket dual core AMD server that includes 24 TB of physical storage....
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, SAS Institute, StorageTek, Sun Fire, Sun Fire X4600, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-01
- A Throughput-Intensive Compute and Storage Grid Using SAS Grid Manager
- The time has come when a $2,000,000 SMP UNIX server can be replaced by a $200,000 grid of even greater performance, reliability, and fault tolerance. This paper will discuss the considerations made in selecting the key grid components: grid node hardware, network infrastructure, and storage strategy. These must be optimized...
- Tags: Performance, Storage, SAS Institute
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Performance Driven Data Integration: An Optimized Approach
- Characteristically, the data warehouse is a central repository of vast amounts of disparate data. The process of cleansing, extracting, transforming and organizing this data into an enterprise intelligence platform data mart presents unique challenges. An optimized approach towards performance driven data integration should eliminate redundancy and incorporate accuracy, timeliness, automation...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Performance, SAS Institute, Data Integration, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Demeter in the Database
- Relational database normal form is nothing more than variable dereference. Used properly by following the two most important rules of object-oriented design, separation and encapsulation, one's database model will always work well. Violating the Law of Demeter enforces a concrete implementation on an otherwise abstract model, effectively multiplying in Cartesian...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Storage, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Simple and Effective: Using ODS Destinations to Facilitate Data Management
- A basic component of the management of project data and metadata is easy and convenient access to the information one and the clients needs. The approach outlined here has two general themes: the various ODS output destinations allow the user to choose the application that best fits the user and...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Data Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-05-14
- SAS Markdown Optimization Solution With IBM POWER5 and System Storage
- Recently SAS and IBM proved the power of their alliance by performing a SAS Markdown Optimization Proof of Technology scenario that leveraged the power of IBM's technology. This test case scenario was developed by SAS as a means to demonstrate the scalability of SAS Markdown Optimization. IBM and the IBM...
- Tags: Storage, SAS Institute, IBM POWER5, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2007-03-29
- RAID 6 Principles: A Deep-Dive Tutorial
- SATA hard drives are continuing to assume new roles within enterprise applications. While a hard disk's expected useful life is largely independent of its host controller interface (SATA, FC-AL, SCSI, SAS, etc,), the present conventional perspective is that desktop hard drives have SATA interfaces and enterprise disks have FC-AL, SCSI,...
- Tags: Hard Drive, SCSI, SAS Institute, RAID, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-03-22
- Measuring the True Performance of Today's SATA and SAS RAID Controllers
- As companies become more reliant on storage, performance and availability are absolutely essential to keep businesses operating efficiently. From the top web server throughput in the industry, to the fastest response times for transactional servers, one can be confident one has the performance edge with Adaptec RAID controllers. Whether one...
- Tags: Performance, Adaptec Inc., SAS Institute, RAID, Storage, Serial ATA, Hardware
- White papers 2006-12-01
- SAS and the Market Overview
- Serial Attached SCSI SAS, the successor technology to the parallel SCSI interface, leverages proven SCSI functionality and features while expanding SCSI's proven performance, scalability and reliability for enterprise storage. SAS offers many features not found in today's mainstream storage solutions such as drive addressability up to 16,000 devices per port,...
- Tags: Storage, SCSI, SAS Institute, Serial Attached SCSI, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2006-11-06
- Master Data and Master Data Management: An Introduction
- Master Data Management is more than just an application. It is a composition of tools, methods and policies that will mold the future of exploiting the value of the corporate information asset. The secrets to success lie in understanding how MDM will transition the organization into one with a strong...
- Tags: Data Quality, SAS Institute, Master Data Management, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-09-14
- Master Data Management: Challenges to Success
- Introducing a Master Data Management MDM program is intended to generate a number of benefits to enterprise information and data management. By creating an environment guided by data governance policies and procedures to consolidate replicated versions of data into a single version of the truth (shared by both analytical and...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-09-14
- Storage Best Practices: SAS 9 With IBM System Storage, System p5, and System x: Considerations for Optimal Storage Layout
- This paper gives an overview of SAS specific I/O characteristics and provides IBM System Storage recommendations. The recommendations are specific to SAS 9 on AIX 5L or Windows O/S with members of the IBM System Storage DS4000, DS6000, and DS8000 family as noted in the document. SAS has many product...
- Tags: Storage, SAS Institute, Storage System, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2006-08-08
- SAS: The New Paradigm
- Savvy IT managers can quickly deploy storage solutions tailored to their specific needs: Serial Attached SCSI SAS drives are clearly the best choice for mission-critical use, where transactional/online performance and reliability are crucial, while Serial ATA SATA drives are cost effective for capacity-oriented applications, such as archive, and disk-to-disk backup....
- Tags: SAS Institute, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-03-21
- Using Database Principles to Optimize SAS Format Construction From Tabular Data
- While formats are more efficient than standard lookup tables for retrieving target values, guidelines still need to be established for building the best possible format from a control data set. More specifically, the guidelines need to link the format as a function where label=frange to the format's underlying table as...
- Tags: Database, Format, SAS Institute, Identity, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-02-28
- IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Considerations for SAS 9 on the IBM eServer p590: Results and Findings of Disk Layout Testing
- This paper presents the storage findings and recommendations for SAS 9.1 with IBM TotalStorage DS4000 disk arrays formerly known as FAStT. IBM and SAS team members tested SAS 9.1 at the IBM Beaverton Test Labs. SAS ETL Test Suite 1.4 was used for the test workload generator. The test environment...
- Tags: Disk, IBM eServer, SAS Institute, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-22
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