Lorraine Bartlett, HP: HP-Sybase BI Reference Architecture Leverages Converged Infrastructure

August 13, 2010

The new HP-Sybase BI (business intelligence) reference architecture leverages the HP Converged Infrastructure. The joint solution optimizes query response and data loads with reduced overhead, storage costs and maintenance requirements. Featuring Sybase IQ 15 running on HP ProLiant DL785 servers, the solution is a proven choice for organizations looking for unparalleled performance, scalability and energy efficiency at a significantly lower TCO than other analytics server offerings. With this new optimized BI reference architecture, HP and Sybase customers are able to deploy analytic applications more quickly and achieve ROI sooner.

The HP-Sybase BI reference architecture is optimized for data intensive workloads, with extensive joint engineering consultation, lab, customer benchmark, and customer deployment experience supporting thousands of data warehouse and analytics customers. IT planners and architects are now able to start from a “best-fit” reference configuration that reflects their companies’ raw data size and query workload characteristics. Each configuration can then be optimized based on its specific workload and requirements.

“As organizations adopt virtualization and cloud technologies the ability to integrate data becomes a key differentiator for business competitiveness,” said Lorraine Bartlett, vice president of Worldwide Marketing, Strategy and Operations, Business Critical Systems, HP. “Together with Sybase, we are building solutions that will enable companies to meet the most demanding BI and analytics needs while driving growth and reducing total cost of ownership.”

The HP-Sybase BI reference architecture offers the following key benefits:

• Greater flexibility: independent scalability of compute power and storage capacity
• Record speed: dramatic query performance with parallel query processing capability and enhanced query algorithms
• Improved information availability: ability to load large data feeds directly from client while availability and disaster recovery ensure continuous availability of the analytics environment
• Better manageability: a new generation of usability and manageability tools improve deployment, automation, and monitoring capabilities
• Greater economy: Range portioning and configurable table spaces lower the TCO
• in managing Very Large Databases

“Sybase IQ has always been the smart choice for delivering analytics results,” said Mark Westover, vice president of Partner Marketing, Sybase. “Now, together with HP servers optimized for data intensive workloads, Sybase IQ enables a new generation of analytics capability—such as predictive business analytics, ad-hoc queries capabilities and deep-dive data mining—that meets today’s business challenges.”