Johannesburg, 17 Feb 2004
Sybase, the enterprise infrastructure and mobile software company, has made its Sybase IQ 12.5 analytical engine available on Linux.
Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 12.5.1, the company's enterprise-class relational database management system (RDBMS), has also been certified for Silicon Graphics SGI Advanced Linux Environment software.
"Our goal is to provide Sybase customers with more knowledge and greater performance, at the lowest possible cost. Sybase IQ on Linux analyses data faster, requires less storage and is more scalable than other offerings, all of which means significant time and money savings for our customers," says Estelle de Beer, business intelligence product manager at Sybase South Africa. "Unlike other business intelligence solutions, Sybase IQ on Linux delivers these benefits without compromise, providing Unix-like scalability and performance on lower-cost platforms. By offering Sybase IQ on Linux, we are making business intelligence capabilities available to a greater and greater number of businesses."
Due to Sybase IQ's proprietary compression algorithms, organisations can save up to 95 percent on associated hardware costs.
"Sybase offering IQ on Linux will help us further develop our existing data warehousing infrastructure in a more open environment," says Frank Lundy, director of database architecture, S&H greenpoints, a provider of branded digital rewards currency. "The data compression capabilities of IQ allow for the use of smaller, more cost-effective hardware. By using IQ on Linux as a base platform, we could potentially save up to 50 percent on hardware and/or licensing costs, which will allow us to analyse and turn data around faster, and provide our retailers with the customer information they demand in a speedier fashion."
In addition, Sybase and Silicon Graphics also announced that Sybase ASE is the only major, full-featured RDBMS to be certified on SGI Altix family servers running the SGI Advanced Linux Environment with SGI ProPack software.
"Scalability, optimised performance and the lowest cost of ownership: all are critical for technical and scientific users," says Jeffrey Greenwald, senior director, server product management and marketing, SGI. "Together, our solutions create a 64-bit environment that delivers all the advantages of SGI and Sybase innovation with the low cost and high performance of open-sourced, industry-standard components."
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