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Mike Olson recently said the following while announcing a partnership between Cloudera and Netezza:

“Enterprises want to take structured data – customer and transaction data – and combine it will [sic] all the unstructured data coming off their websites…that might not fit into a tabular schema well.” [...] “All of that activity is… [read more]

itWorldCanada spoke with SAND Chief Operating Officer, Mike Pilcher, about the announcement of SAND CDBMS V6.

“There are a lot of people talking about massively parallel editions and lots of people talk about the cloud,” said Pilcher, adding that scalability doesn’t factor into the discussion. Customers operating 24/7 at the global level, for instance,… [read more]

SAND has announced the upcoming release of the new version of our flagship product, SAND CDBMS V6, coming on September 2, 2010. SAND CDBMS V6 defines the next generation of column-oriented database management systems with its delivery of Agile Cloud scalability, giving users the ability to scale both on public Interclouds and private Intracloud architectures…. [read more]

MONTREAL—July 13, 2010— SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), announced today that SAND CDBMS 6, the next release of its industry-leading massively parallel, column-oriented database management system, will ship this September. Specifically designed to deliver optimal performance for complex analytics on massive and continuously growing amounts of data, SAND CDBMS version 6 offers an unprecedented level… [read more]

A short time ago I asked on this blog if SAND CDBMS Nearline for SAP BW could enhance SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator. My question was based on an article from SearchSAP.com, but as you know, SAND prefers real world examples and real customer results.

Well, during a recent trip to provide training for a global… [read more]

There are several signs that your SAS environment needs SAND CDBMS Nearline for SAS. In my experience, these are the 5 most common:

1. Big data.

When the size of your SAS environment is starting to grow, it’s a sign you need SAND CDBMS Nearline. Data growth can creep up on you — even a terabyte… [read more]

New Software Product Enables Simple, Cost-Effective Storage and Easy Access for Large Volumes of SAS Data

Montreal, Canada – June 24, 2010 SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), provider of leading column-based database software, today announced the launch of its SAND CDBMS Nearline product for SAS environments. Based on SAND’s patented column-based database technology, SAND CDBMS Nearline… [read more]

Dunnhumby handles retail analytics for over 350 million retail customers on behalf of companies like Tesco, Home Depot, and Kroger. When they first approached SAND, they were looking for a solution to help with the data recovery architecture for their SAS implementation. The main problem was the sheer size of the data involved: dunnhumby had… [read more]

Montreal, June 23, 2010: SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB:SNDTF), an international provider of column-based database software, today reported a net loss for the three-month period ended April 30, 2010.

Highlights for the current third quarter compared to the same quarter last year include:

Revenue of $996,654 in Q3-10 vs. Revenue of $2,371,632 in Q3-09 Net loss of $1,175,229… [read more]

Montreal, Canada – June 2, 2010 SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), provider of leading column-based database software, today announced that Brian Schwartz will be its new Vice-President of Sales.

Brian Schwartz comes to SAND with more than 15 years of experience in the software industry focusing on business intelligence, analytics, CRM, and HR solutions…. [read more]