Sponsor: Aster Data Systems
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner, Inc.
Speakers: Donald Feinberg, Mayank Bawa
Type: Video (26 minutes)
Today’s data warehouses need to be “always-on.” Critical business operations rely on data warehouses to be always on. Loads and queries are happening continuously. Maintenance windows are shrinking. But how can you ensure that the stress of running an always-on warehouse doesn’t overwhelm your team or your budget? Watch this new program now and find out.
Take a look at the latest innovations and analytic databases with two leading industry experts, Donald Feinberg, VP Distinguished Analyst from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Mayank Bawa, CEO of Aster Data Systems. They’ll explore the challenges of managing and querying, loading, scaling, and recovering data warehouses, while maintaining 100% uptime.
Learn how to sustain a database that’s able to survive hardware failures and continue working even as servers crash within the cluster. Learn how to ensure that common administrative tasks can be done live on the production warehouse. And learn about the most important evaluation criteria when selecting a database for your critical business operations.
Success - MySpace Utilizes Aster Data
MySpace, one of the most popular Internet sites in the US, is an online community that lets you meet friends, and share photos, journals and interests with a growing network of mutual friends. MySpace uses web server data to understand the consumption patterns of their content and features, and increase the user engagement on their network. MySpace works with Aster to successfully collect data from thousands of web servers (about two terabytes every day) and bring it into the Aster cluster that is running on 100 plus nodes, in near real-time.
Watch this new program and learn how Aster can work for you. Hear about the 130 terabytes of data Aster currently manages on their 100 nodes, making it, by any standard, one of the biggest data warehouse deployments that the world has seen.
Be part of the success. Watch this program now and learn how.
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About Donald Feinberg
Donald Feinberg is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Intelligence in the Information Infrastructure group. Mr. Feinberg is responsible for Gartner's research on database management systems and data warehousing infrastructure. Before this, Mr. Feinberg held various management jobs within Gartner, most recently vice president and general manager of Latin America operations. Mr. Feinberg began his career at Gartner in the Software Management Strategies group responsible for DBMS engines and vendors. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Feinberg was director of technical marketing for Oracle Corporation’s IBM mainframe database business. In this capacity, he was responsible for technical sales and marketing support of the products worldwide. Previously, Mr. Feinberg was an assistant professor of mathematics at Boston University. Mr. Feinberg resides in São Paulo, Brazil.
About Mayank Bawa
Mayank Bawa is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Aster Data Systems, Inc. Mayank graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. As a Stanford Graduate Fellow, Mayank developed algorithms for querying large distributed data systems. Mayank has published a dozen academic papers in top database conferences and has been affiliated with IBM Research and Microsoft Research. He received his B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay; he ranked 4th in the entrance exams for the IITs.
