Data General Targets Data Warehousing With AV 20000 NUMA Server.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 1997-- Business Warehouse Program to include Constellar Hub, Information Advantage DecisionSuite, Quadstone Decisionhouse and VMARK DataStage; Also Expands Data Warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. Practice Data General Corporation announced today that it is expanding its Business Warehouse Program to target selected industries, using the highly scalable AViiON AV 20000 NUMA-based server as the hardware platform. In addition to existing strategic software partners, the company has signed agreements with Constellar, Information Advantage, Quadstone, and VMARK Software to provide an integrated application solutions framework. Initially, this framework will be based on Oracle8 Universal Data Server, Oracle Express, and Oracle Discover. The company also announced the expansion of its Data Warehousing practice under its Professional Services organization to assist the sales force in qualifying prospects, provide consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" , and offer a delivery methodology. This group will also work with industry-leading consulting companies to deliver vertical market solutions. "Data General has selected a targeted set of products to address specific industries such as retail, healthcare, telecommunications, and manufacturing," said Linda Mentzer, vice president of the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). Business Unit at Data General. "We test the products in an integrated environment, make sure that they work well together, and optimize performance on our AV 20000 server. This qualification process gives customers a measure of confidence that this integrated solution, combined with our Data Warehousing implementation services, can deliver the decision support infrastructure specific to their business needs." "Users' experience is that data warehouses grow very fast, often by a factor of four within a year, quickly increasing the need for processing power and storage," said Data General's Mentzer. "The AV 20000's NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) A multiprocessing architecture in which memory is separated into close and distant banks. NUMA is similar to SMP, in which multiple CPUs share a single memory. However, in SMP, all CPUs access a common memory at the same speed. architecture enables it to scale to a large number of processors, as well as support large memory pools and very large disk farms, providing an excellent platform to address data warehousing requirements. In addition, the aggressively priced entry-level configuration for the AV 20000 means that users don't have massive initial costs to get started." The NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access (architecture) Non-Uniform Memory Access - (NUMA) A memory architecture, used in multiprocessors, where the access time depends on the memory location. A processor can access its own local memory faster than non-local memory (memory which is local to another processor or shared ) architecture extends SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. to very large processor counts while using the same shared-memory model. As a result, businesses can scale their existing software applications without modification. New Additions to the Business Warehouse Program Constellar Corporation Constellar Hub is a rules-based transformation software package that operates with an Oracle database to produce a scalable, maintainable solution for data transformation, data movement, and interface management across enterprise application networks. Data warehouses are key applications in these enterprise networks, which can be created with Constellar Hub in less time and at lower cost and risk than with hand-coded, message-based or application-specific products. "Constellar is pleased to be working with Data General," commented Brian Donnelly
Donnelly was trained as a teacher, and worked in the education sector for twenty years. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Constellar Corporation. "Data General's NUMA-based AV 20000 server combined with the Constellar Hub is an outstanding platform for hosting, loading, and refreshing the enterprise data warehouse." Information Advantage, Inc. DecisionSuite is a family of relational on-line analytical processing (database) On-Line Analytical Processing - (OLAP) A category of database software which provides an interface such that users can transform or limit raw data according to user-defined or pre-defined functions, and quickly and interactively examine the results in various dimensions (ROLAP See OLAP. ) software products which work together to let decision makers analyze their business and collaborate - sharing information, ideas, and knowledge - to improve decision making throughout the organization. DecisionSuite's enterprise architecture provides robust OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. analysis of data warehouses of several terabytes in size; linear performance as the number of active users increases to thousands; robust OLAP services See OLAP and Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services. needed for mass deployment; and an open framework that integrates with existing technologies. "Information Advantage is single-mindedly focused on helping our customers successfully deploy enterprise OLAP solutions that deliver competitive leadership and bottom-line results," said Larry Ford, president and CEO, Information Advantage. "We are enthusiastic about our participation in Data General's Business Warehouse program and view this as another important step in meeting our customers' enterprise OLAP needs." Quadstone Limited Decisionhouse, from Quadstone Limited, is a scalable data analysis software package that has been specially designed for use in very large companies, typically those with over one million customers. It allows business analysts to profile their customers, segment their markets, and build business models very quickly and accurately. Decisionhouse enables business users, from their desktop, to interactively convert masses of company data into information and knowledge to create ever more refined customer models. "Quadstone's market strength is based on enabling business analysts to actually make high-value and high-productivity use of their data warehouses. The company now has a solid base of customers across the UK, and our strategic plans have turned to overseas markets. The new series of Data General machines and our new partnership should provide excellent world-wide opportunities for our Decisionhouse software," says Neil Heywood, managing director, Quadstone Limited. VMARK Software DataStage from VMARK Software, Inc., the world's leading provider of data transformation solutions, simplifies data extraction Data extraction is the act or process of retrieving (binary) data out of (usually unstructured or badly structured) data sources for further data processing or data storage (data migration). and transformation with visual design tools which assemble reusable software building blocks. DataStage's unique process-oriented approach, based on reusable components, dramatically reduces cost, time, and resources required to design and maintain fully scalable data warehouses. "The visual approach we provide with DataStage eliminates the costly and error-prone manual coding typically associated with preparing data for use in a warehouse application. That simplicity and DataStage's unmatched scalability make it a perfect choice for Data General's Business Warehouse Program which combines low cost of entry with industrial-strength capabilities," said Peter Fiore, executive vice president of VMARK Software's data warehouse division. "This project represents another successful chapter in our strategic relationship with Data General and complements the range of high-value warehousing solutions available to DataStage customers." AViiON AV 20000 Server The AV 20000 server, Data General's first Intel based See Intel-based system. system to use the company's advanced NUMALiiNE technology, currently supports up to 32 200-MHz Pentium Pro The sixth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 MHz were released. processors, 32 GB of memory, and 100 Terabytes of fault-tolerant CLARiiON fibre channel storage. Up to 128 processors can be used in clustered configurations to provide even higher availability. Future AViiON systems will continue to leverage the Intel roadmap and NUMA architecture, which can scale to hundreds of processors. The AV 20000 is currently available with DG/UX, Data General's industry leading UNIX operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services . Prices for entry-level four-processor systems start at under $70,000. At the high end, the price for a 32-processor AV 20000 system with 4GB of memory is $690,000. Data General Data General (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DGN DGN Design (file) DGN Dirección General de Normas (Standards Organization in Mexico) DGN MicroStation Design File (file format/extension) ), based in Westboro, Massachusetts, is a provider of servers, storage systems, and related software and services to customers worldwide. The company reported fiscal 1996 revenues of $1.3 billion. Additional information on the company, its products, and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com . -0- AViiON, CLARiiON, and DG/UX are registered trademarks of Data General Corporation. All brands and product names appearing in the press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Data General Jim Dunlap Carlos Soares (508) 898-6546 (508) 898-6674 jim_dunlap@dg.com carlos_soares@dgc.ceo.dg.com |
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