The Briefing Room with Dr. Robin Bloor and Hewlett-Packard
Live Webcast on Oct. 30, 2012
Success in today's information economy rises and falls on the efficiency of data management. Companies that treat their information assets as mission-critical components of the business will find ways to better their competitors. The key is to ensure that the foundation of your information architecture can satisfy the wide range of user demands. Moreover, the ability to scale quickly and efficiently has become paramount.
Check out this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Robin Bloor who will explain the benefits of embracing a modern Information Oriented Architecture (IOA). He'll also tout the purpose of using a flexible SQL engine in this era of NoSQL technologies. He will be briefed by Ajaya Gummadi of Hewlett-Packard, who will show how her company’s NonStop SQL has evolved to become a valuable solution for mission-critical data, mixed workloads and high volume databases. She will also explain how their integrated hardware and software stack can help reduce the cost of operations and management in a large-scale database environment.
3. ! Reveal the essential characteristics of enterprise
software, good and bad
! Provide a forum for detailed analysis of today s
innovative technologies
! Give vendors a chance to explain their product to
savvy analysts
! Allow audience members to pose serious questions...
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4. November: Cloud
December: Innovators
January: Big Data
February: Performance
March: Integration
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5. ! Most organizations and companies rely heavily on databases and
database management systems for their operations and
processes.
! The landslide of complex data has not diminished the
expectation for reliable performance of and immediate access
to database systems.
! Further, the global drive for 24/7 mission-critical computing
has created challenges in the areas of fault tolerance and
scalability, meaning database technology must not only be
available on demand, but it must scale on demand, and do so
without fail.
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6. Robin Bloor is
Chief Analyst at
The Bloor Group
robin.bloor@bloorgroup.com
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7. ! Established in 1939, HP specializes in developing and
manufacturing computing, data storage and networking
hardware; designing software; and delivering services.
! Though it holds the highest market share of global PC sales
(17.2% last year), it has also been building a formidable
collection of commercial information management solutions.
! A key offering is its HP Integrity NonStop, a platform aimed at
mission-critical customers that includes an integrated stack of
hardware, OS, database, software and applications.
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8. Ajaya Gummadi is the Database Product Manager with
the HP NonStop Enterprise Division. In this role, she is
responsible for setting the database product strategy
for the NonStop Business Unit. She engages customers
to understand their business and technology
requirements, and working with Partners has
developed a database ecosystem for the NonStop
platform. She works closely with R&D on prioritizing
and delivering database innovations that enable
customers to create scalable and always available
NonStop SQL applications. Working closely with
worldwide Sales teams, she evangelizes new product
messaging and drives product marketing execution
priorities.
Ajaya is a Computer Science graduate from BITS
Pilani, India and received an EMBA from Pepperdine
University’s Graziadio School of Business
Management.
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35. The “Big Data” Trend
q Corporate data volumes
grow at about 55% per
annum
q VLDB volumes grow at
about 55% per annum
q This is exponential
q Data has been growing
at this rate for at least
20 years
q As such there is nothing
new about big data
other than the current
data volumes - which
follow a well established
trend
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36. Horses For Courses
• RDBMS • Traditional OLTP or DW
• Object DBMS • Objects and OLTP
• Column stores • Scale Out Analytics
• Big Table stores • Log file and sensor data
• NoSQL DBMS • Documents and Objects
• Mixed Workload • Large scale OLTP and
DBMS DW + analytics
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38. The Advantages
q Fewer databases can mean fewer points of failure
q It can mean lower DBA overhead
q It can mean simpler recovery
q It is very likely to mean lower latency for BI
applications
q It can mean lower software costs
q These advantages can multiply in a mixed workload
environment
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39. Questions
1. Aside from the NonStop architecture what do you
believe are the “technical uniques” of NonStop
SQL?
2. What mixed workloads are possible with NonStop
SQL?
3. What areas of application do you regard as its
sweet spots?
4. What is the largest NonStop SQL database (by data
volume) currently in use? What is the largest that
has a mixed workload?
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40. Questions
5. Where does NonStop SQL sit in relation to HP’s
Vertica database?
6. How difficult is it to use (in other words, what are
the labor/DBA overheads compared to a traditional
RDBMS)?
7. What is HP’s strategy in respect to NonStop SQL
and Hadoop?
8. Which database products do you tend to find
yourself in competition with?
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