Warehouse Archiving
The importance of data warehouses is increasing as companies rely on timely and insightful analytics to drive real-time business decisions, not just long-term strategy. As business users demand more information more quickly, the performance of bloated and growing data warehouses becomes an issue.
Relocate cold data from corporate warehouses
As a consequence “cold” data that is infrequently analyzed must often be removed to allow peak performance against “hot” data. However, business users might need access to this historical data, now residing outside the corporate data warehouse. The fundamental problem is that often the historical data has disappeared into a black hole, or worse been deleted, because it’s too costly or complex to keep in an accessible format.
The optimal destination for cold warehouse data
RainStor provides a simple, cost-effective, and accessible archive store for cold data that has been offloaded from data warehouses to improve analytical performance. RainStor is also the optimal destination for cold data that must be removed from data warehouse appliances with fixed capacities. RainStor can provide business users with continued ad hoc access to less frequently analyzed but still valuable warehouse data.
Spin out data marts from a central repository
Additionally, business users are becoming increasingly frustrated with the time it takes to design, build, and implement data warehouses. In particular, power users battle with the inherent limitations and restrictions of most data warehouses as they try to be all things to all people. RainStor is able to hold vast amounts of data economically at the finest level of granularity without any aggregation. As such, RainStor can be used as a central data repository, containing faithful copies of transactional data from multiple sources. This repository can be used to feed temporary data marts or refresh data warehouses.
Whether it’s used to archive or feed data warehouses, RainStor extends the power, reach, and value of existing data warehouse and data mart environments.
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