Nobody has time for much of anything these days, least of all a mundane task like data backup and warehousing.
So it's no surprise that more and more warehousing and B&R platforms are starting to emphasize speed as much as capacity and management prowess as enterprises look to shore up their data-management capabilities.
Teradata took a major step forward this month with the 2580 data warehouse appliance. The device accommodates up to 1 TB drives, which bumps total system capacity to more than 500 TB. But the real advance here, according to CTOEdge's Dan Berthiaume, is the combination of the new Database 13 warehousing software and the hyper-thread capability of the Intel Nehalem processors. The combo provides for markedly faster query performance and data mining, plus the ability to allow multiple users to access various versions of the system without a hardware refresh.
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, In Pursuit of Faster Backup- Arthur Cole - ITBusinessedge.com
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