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Business requirements for data,
such as compliance regulations,
are often fluid, stringent and
challenging. In the communications sector,
for example, most countries dictate that
call detail records, short and multimedia
message services (like text messages), and
wireless application protocol content
(from mobile devices) should be retained
for several years. Other industries, includ-
ing finance and healthcare, face similar,
externally governed regulations. Regardless
of the sector, data retention and ease of
scale have become key issues that need to
be addressed from both a technology andcost perspective.
Storing older data in the integrated data
warehouse is not always the most efficient
or economical answer. An alternative solu-
tion for housing less frequently accessed
historical data is RainStor database software.
RainStor offers specialized data compression
and reduction capabilities that can reduce
2 petabytes of raw data to approximately
100TB, giving organizations significant
storage and management savings.
Save Money, Time and SpaceThe RainStor database software,
running
on a customers commodity hardware,
efficiently stores large volumes of historical
multi-structured data at a much lower cost
per terabyte than other methods. With a
small storage footprintand value, pattern
and algorithmic data reduction techniques
compressing data by 95% or moreit
provides cost savings across the storage,
hardware and administrative resources
required for retaining information.
RainStor is the first product of its kind
to offer such massive data reduction whileallowing the
information to be easily and
quickly accessible with SQL queries and
business intelligence (BI) tools. If a user
requires more complex analysis, the data can
be imported to the Teradata Database using
the jointly developed FastConnect software
module. While other methods of data
storage can be cost and space prohibitive,
RainStor is efficient. If a companys data
compresses 20 times, up to 1.2 petabytes
of raw data can be stored in a single rack
of commodity servers. Thats equivalent to
1,500 LTO-4 tape cartridges.Additionally, unlike a
traditional
database in which data can be changed,
or a tape archive that allows data to be
overwritten or corrupted, the informa-
tion contained in the RainStor software
is completely tamperproof and secure.
That means its perfect for a clean audit
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APPLIED SOLUTIONS
Compress to ImpressA fast, easy-to-deploy data retention
solution from RainStorcomes at a fraction of the cost.
by Betsy Huntingdon and Deirdre Mahon
