Sun and Greenplum Data Warehouse Solution

Although enterprises have embraced analytics as a critical component of their operations, they have been blind-sided by the price tag associated with storing and analyzing these growing data sets. To build a sustainable data management strategy, organizations are now looking at next-generation data warehousing solutions that can economically scale from terabytes to petabytes, while providing improved performance for BI analytic tools.

Listen to Jim Kobielus, Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research, as he interviews Pat Richards, VP of Technical Operations for Fox Interactive Media/MySpace. Pat uses "big data" to run his business and will offer up insights from his experience. He'll disclose his requirements, the challenges he faced, and ultimately what led him to select Greenplum, and Sun as his data warehouse platform — a solution he feels transforms the economics of data warehousing. Hear it now.

Proven Value and Performance

Sun and Greenplum address the escalating, critical need companies have to cost-effectively warehouse hundreds of terabytes (TB) and even petabytes (PB) of data. The two companies have a proven track record when it comes to satisfying Fortune 1000 customers around the globe with the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry. The joint offering — purpose-built for high-performance — is delivered in the smallest footprint with the biggest punch in terms of energy and power efficiency, as well as, ease of expansion and upgradeability.

Sun Customer Ready Pre-Built Systems

Integrated (at the Sun factory) by the Sun Customer Ready program, the Greenplum Data Warehouse powered by Sun includes best-in-class database software (from Greenplum) as well as Sun server and storage components. The Greenplum Scale-Everything architecture uses massively parallel processing that leverages the compute power available from the Sun Fire X4540 server. Representing a revolution in server architecture with 48TB of storage in a 4RU package, the Sun Fire X4540 delivers industry-leading compute power, exceptional storage density, and near-zero-latency access to data, in a single, integrated system.

Reliability and Scalability

With its compact footprint and throughput performance, the Sun Fire X4540 provides breakthrough query-processing speeds, with each node in the data warehouse cluster able to scan 100 gigabytes of data in a RAID 10 configuration. Parallel loading with the x4540 enables each node in the cluster to add 100 gigabytes of data to warehouse every hour. The hot-swappable disks provide 2-gigabytes-per-second serial-read throughput per system. Utilizing the massively parallel processing architecture, the Greenplum appliance distributes data across all disks in the system, enabling query-in-storage processing for today's demanding data warehousing applications.

Economic Innovation

Competitive data warehousing solutions can cost millions of dollars to implement. The Greenplum and Sun data warehouse solution has the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry. You owe it to yourself to explore the superior total cost of ownership and performance available from Greenplum and Sun.