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2/19/2010
Virtualization and the Data Protection Connection
In an ideal world, protecting data and applications on a virtual machine would be as simple as protecting those on a physical machine – install your backup agent on each virtual machine and proceed with business as usual. The great advantage in this approach is that your data protection administrator uses only one product and process for physical, virtual, mixed, or migrating environments – both on the backup and recovery side. During consolidation, as physical resources are virtualized, the data protection element is essentially seamless with this approach. In reality, however, this ideal has several big obstacles.
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2/10/2010
10 Emerging Virtualization Companies Shaking Up Datacenters in 2010
Ten companies aren’t waiting around to tackle virtualization’s most bedeviling problems. Each company, including Syncsort, delivers a unique solution.
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9/10/2009
Stock service's data warehouse now delivers in seconds, not hours
Last year, Pink OTC began testing a data warehouse using a columnar database from Vertica Systems Inc. and high-speed data-integration software from SyncSort Inc. "Reports that used to take two hours to run now can show up 10-15 seconds later," said Rahul Bose, director of application development for Pink OTC.
The reports can be generated on stock quotes and trades executed as recent as 5 seconds ago. That virtual real-time performance is enabled by SyncSort's DMExpress software, which the vendor says can load 5.4 TB of data into the Vertica data warehouse in an hour, and the three server cluster now running Vertica in production.
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6/24/2009
Meeting Virtual Server Data Protection Needs
There are a number of different backup solutions available today that provide varying levels of support and functionality for the VMware environment through VCB integration and support. There are a few though, which in addition to traditional VCB support also provide additional or extended capabilities and functions beyond VCB, which are optimized specifically for the VMware environment. Syncsort's BEX 3.1 is a good example of a solution that provides this type of extended functionality for the VMware environment.
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5/5/2009
comScore Selects Syncsort to Manage Click-Stream Data
Syncsort, a global leader in high-performance data integration software, today announced that comScore has selected the DMExpress technology platform to incorporate into its click-stream data processing environment.
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5/4/2009
Syncsort Joins the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program
As customers seek to not only virtualize their smaller applications and test development servers, but also move critical applications into production on VMware Infrastructure, the ability to maintain application performance and meet the same demanding RPOs and RTOs that production apps require becomes a concern. Syncsort's Backup Express (BEX) has been architected to integrate seamlessly with VMware to reduce network traffic, storage requirements, and backup windows by more than 90% with little or no impact on the performance of applications.
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4/29/2009
Application Aware Storage and Protection
In storage, its easy to forget that it is all about the application, especially when it comes to protection and more importantly recovery of that application. Companies like NetApp, SyncSort and AppAssure are all now offering solutions that have a more intimate, application aware understanding of specific applications that are critical to the enterprise; Exchange being the most common, but some are including support for SQL and SharePoint as well.
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4/21/2009
Syncsort Joins the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program
Through this alliance, Syncsort and VMware customers can achieve enhanced flexibility and performance of backup and recovery, reduced hardware requirements and ease-of-use for virtual environments. The result is a rapid return on investment for customers deploying server virtualization.
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3/19/2009
Zoom Zoom: Upstarts Speed Past Big BI Vendors in Data Warehouse Loading Speeds
One of the more prosaic parts of data warehousing is, well, getting the data into the warehouse. This has long been handled by vendors that are expert in the field of extract, transform and load (ETL).
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3/9/2009
Syncsort Backup Express and NetApp - Advanced Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Coupling NetApp's SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort's Backup Express (BEX) software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business.
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2/26/2009
Syncsort Announces Data Protection Solution for Virtual Server Environments
Syncsort unveiled Backup Express (BEX) 3.1, its scalable data protection solution for SMBs, SMEs and large Enterprises. The new release provides customers deploying server virtualization with capabilities to meet the data protection requirements of the new environments.
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2/25/2009
Syncsort Speeds Virtual Machine Backups
Back-up and data recovery software house Syncsort Inc has reworked its Backup Express line so that it can be used to take fast snapshot copies of data running on virtual machines.
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2/24/2009
Better Storage Practices to Improve Backup
Backup is the thorn in the side of many otherwise smoothly running IT operations. The truth is that backup should be simple -- all you're doing is copying data to tape. The problem in general has nothing to do with the backup process, it has more to do with how primary storage is managed and optimized.
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2/19/2009
Syncsort and Trillium Software Partnership
Syncsort's DMExpress has little to do with sorting, but instead is the company's low cost ETL tool. Trillium Software recently announced connectivity between Syncsort and the Trillium Software System. Trillium Software’s fast, scalable data cleansing combined with Syncsort’s fast scalable ETL makes for a great pairing.
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2/19/2009
Performance: Making Databases and Applications Work Faster
Just like professional race cars, enterprise systems are measured by their performance. The faster they can perform their tasks effectively, the better. Monitoring performance can be done all kinds of ways, however, and the list of means for improving performance grows longer every day. Tune into this episode of DM Radio as we explore several major avenues for measuring, monitoring and improving the performance of enterprise applications and databases.
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2/13/2009
The Problem with Snapshots
Snapshots sound like the ‘be all and end all’ for covering yourself from some sort of data disaster but it is an overused term and sometimes can mean different things to different suppliers. When a snapshot is "taken" you are actually only copying this primary index. This is very small and takes less than a few seconds, if that, to complete. The blocks that are referenced by the snapshot are then put into a read-only mode and can't be changed or deleted.
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2/12/2009
Harte-Hanks Trillium Software and Syncsort Announce Alliance
Harte-Hanks Trillium Software and Syncsort Inc. have created a software-based "application connector" that integrates the Trillium Software System data quality product with Syncsort's DMExpress, a data integration and extract, transform and load (ETL) product. This integration provides a single user interface for investigating, improving, governing and monitoring data.
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2/4/2009
Syncsort Optimizes Its Data Integration Tool
Data integration software provider Syncsort has updated its high-speed data integration software solution that accelerates extract, transform and load, data warehousing, BI and other mission-critical applications.
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2/4/2009
Syncsort Upgrades ETL Software For Data Warehousing
Syncsort has upgraded its extract, transform and load tool used in data warehousing with the ability to handle larger volumes of data from multiple heterogeneous sources. DMExpress 5.0, a leading ETL tool in the business intelligence market, also includes additional platform support and ease-of-use features.
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2/2/2009
DMExpress: ETL Management Tool
DMExpress is a tool for DB Admins and/or data managers and application developers that provides optimized ETL capabilities for use in data management (including export, aggregation, migration, etc.) and/or reporting tasks. The client/server platform enables users to design transformation tasks on workstations and then deploy them on servers when ready.
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1/29/2009
Product Spotlight
Syncsort announced the release of DMExpress 5.0, Syncsort's high-speed data integration software solution that accelerates ETL, data warehousing, BI and other mission-critical applications. The new release combines functional enhancements and new platform support, allowing customers to transform and aggregate larger volumes of disparate data from multiple, heterogeneous sources faster and at a lower total cost of ownership.
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1/22/2009
Is Mainframe Regaining Its Mojo? Some Say Yes!
What goes around, comes around -- even in the case of the venerable mainframe. Once the dominant force in enterprise technology, some say the mainframe took a back seat for years as chip and computer manufacturers made remarkable strides. But major corporations still use the mainframe every day to run mission-critical applications. And there are new mainframes sold every year, new software, and plenty of activity.
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1/19/2009
Finding Bottlenecks, Supporting Demanding Apps Keys to Surviving a Tough 2009
As businesses settle into an unsettling economy, long-standing concerns are being addressed from a new perspective. The challenge was once to move, manage, protect, and recover exploding data
volumes. The challenge now is to do it in less time, with fewer resources, and on a tighter budget.
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12/3/2008
Syncsort, Vertica and HP Set New World Record for Loading Data into a Relational Database for Business Intelligence
Syncsort, a global provier in data integration, data protection and high–speed sorting software and Vertica, the market innovator for high–performance analytic database management systems, in collaboration with HP have set a new world record for loading data into a relational database for business intelligence applications powered by HP BladeSystem c–Class.
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12/2/2008
Syncsort and Vertica Break Database ETL World Record
Syncsort's data integration product, DMExpress v4.8 extracted, transformed, cleansed and loaded 5.4 terabytes of raw data into the Vertica Analytic Database in 57 minutes 21.51 seconds, using highly cost-efficient HP BladeSystem c-Class running the RedHat Linux operating system. The data was generated using the data generation tool of the industry-standard TPC-H benchmark.
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12/2/2008
Data Warehouse Load Speeds in the Spotlight
Syncsort and Vertica combined to devise and run a benchmark in which a data warehouse got loaded at 5 ½ terabytes per hour, which is several times faster than the figures used in any other vendors’ similar press releases in the past.
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