Sybase readies special hardware for analytics
- TAGS:analytic appliance, analytics, sybase
- IT TOPICS:Applications, Enterprise Apps, Hardware, Privacy
You don't generally think of Sybase Inc. as a hardware company. And it's not. Not really. But come July, the Dublin, Calif. company will add the Sybase Analytic Appliance on IBM Power Systems to its product line.
Irfan Khan, chief technology officer, claims it addresses a "burgeoning problem" in business where there's orders of magnitude more data than ever that's being sliced and diced in every direction while being analyzed by more people with more purposes than ever before.
He says the need is so broad that a packaged hardware/software appliance can do the job as well as or better than building a custom analytic infrastructure for many applications.
The appliance includes the Sybase IQ database, and the company's database design and modeling tool, PowerDesigner. It also comes with Microstrategy Inc.'s appliance management console and, of course, the AIX-based IBM 2 core server with 8 GBytes of memory in the starter package. You can bolt on more processing and memory capacity as your data continues to expand. Pricing runs around $27,000 per terabyte of storage.
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