Data Warehousing, Decision Support and Data Mining
Data warehousing (DW) is a process for building a data repository the form of a relational database, supporting web or text mining to leverage data into useful information. Organizations often use data warehousing as a competitive advantage, supporting their decision making process through comprehensive data analysis. Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Data Mining (DM) systems are key components of these solutions.
In today's data warehouse, data volumes grow exponentially. The WinterCorp program, for example, publishes the world's largest analysis on both data warehousing and OLTP. They found that the maximum data warehousing database size had grown from 30TB in 2003 to over 100TB by 2005. Those needs continue to grow in 2007 and into the future.
From a storage requirements perspective for data warehouses, the following are critical needs:
- High availability
- High data volume
- High performance and scalability
- Simplification and usability
- Easy management
The Intransa architecture used in our StorStac system and IP storage lines leverage our proven, IP infrastructure solutions that deliver independent scalability and capacity growth, affordably and with ease-of-use built in. With our integrated StorStac GUI management system, Intransa StorStac solutions provide seamless, easy-to-use management that scales as your needs grow, without the cost of legacy solutions. And our StorAlliance technology partners deliver best-in-class solutions to all of the above needs as part of a comprehensive answer to data warehousing, decision support and data mining industry needs.
Deploying database applications such as Microsoft SQL Server with a proven Intransa StorStac system provides the optimum utilization and brings these often-competing objectives under control.
Microsoft and other databases provide a platform to manage and protect data and the tools to convert that data into useful information. In the past, largely due to cost constraints, the resulting information may have been moved from high performance storage onto less available systems.
Today, a high performance, scalable Intransa StorStac system can leverage the common IP infrastructure with the same speed and reliability as a FC SAN network.
At the same time, Intransa can provide the tools to deliver a storage system designed to fully support the needs of availability, performance and scalability. Yet, the StorStac system is easy to administer and manage. This is in part because of Intransa's advanced graphic user interface-based StorManager with an integrated CLI option.
Intransa advanced DynaStac thin provisioning ensures optimum performance and utilization of all storage deployed in the system.
The Intransa architecture used in our StorStac system leverages our proven, IP-based infrastructure solutions to deliver independent scalability and capacity growth with high availability, yet affordably with true ease-of-use built in. And our StorAlliance technology partners deliver best-in-class solutions as part of a comprehensive answer to data warehousing, decision support systems, and data warehousing needs, integrated into the Intransa solution.