Sybase IQ Powers World's Largest Green Data Warehouse Including Unstructured Data

New Report Reveals Sybase IQ Analytics Server Provides Eco-Savings for Petabyte-Sized Data Warehouse.

Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced in conjunction with Sun Microsystems and BMMSoft, that Sybase IQ powers the world's largest data warehouse implemented in history, as noted in the independently audited report, "Sun Data Warehouse Reference Architecture for Structured and Unstructured Data," August 2007.

The significant benchmarks were achieved in large part due to the unique compression capability of Sybase IQ, a highly optimised analytics server not only for compression but also for query performance and lightning speed load performance. Sybase IQ demonstrated capability that allows organisations to easily future-proof their data warehouses and analytics systems using technology available today. The world's largest data warehouse depends on Sybase IQ's unique compression capability to store one petabyte of raw data including unstructured data (emails, documents and multimedia) using only 160 terabytes of storage. This huge savings in storage achieves a 90 percent reduction in CO2 emissions. Organisations using this architecture will be able to scale their data  warehouses well beyond today's requirements at substantially lower storage costs, lower cooling requirements and lower energy costs than alternatives. Smaller data warehouses can also expect similar results.

Nearly 1,000 organisations use Sybase IQ analytics server to meet their demand for business intelligence, advanced analytics, predictive modelling, stringent regulation compliance and rapid reporting. The Sybase IQ analytics server allows users to aggregate immense data stores and accelerates analytics processing up to 100 times faster than traditional solutions.

Sun provided the Sun SPARC® Enterprise M9000 server, which features high performance dual-core SPARC64 VI processors and up to 2 TB memory, and the Sun StorageTek(TM) 6540 system that gave Alvion needed storage capacity and snapshot capabilities.