Customers:

"Sun and Sybase have not only pushed the limits of this technology, but they have done so with a realistic application and a system well within the reach of their customers. These demonstrations, which are probably only the beginning, open up a family of technologies on a scale that many businesses may not have previously considered. Sun and Sybase have created a remarkable off the shelf solution. The competitive advantages provided by very large database are no longer restricted to the largest organizations."

- Jeff Sexton, Systems Architect, ODS Health Plans

"The big advantage of the Reference Architecture work, done by Sun and Sybase, is that it provides the advance knowledge that this solution will work. It also demonstrates the critical aspects of ease of deployment, performance, scalability, and storage cost economy. The proof-of-concept demonstration put together in Sun's iForce Ready Center gave us the ability to see for ourselves how effective the Sybase-Sun solution would be for our company. Reference Architectures are a real boon to IT managers who are considering solutions for a specific business problem. For us, it has further validated our choice of Sybase IQ running on Sun servers for this project."

-Kim Ross, chief information officer, Nielsen Media Research

The Auditor:

"The Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture, based on Sun systems and storage and Sybase Adaptive Server® IQ Multiplex, has demonstrated several significant achievements: 48.2 terabytes of raw input data (179 billion rows) stored in a realistic data warehouse schema using only 22 terabytes of total storage (data compression of 0.46). This is the largest database demonstrated and verified to date. Furthermore, query performance scaled to more than 94% percent with multiple server nodes; and, data loading slowed down minimally (less than 7% percent) while concurrent queries were being run at the same time."

- Francois Raab, President, InfoSizing, Inc.

Partners:

"We employed real-world scenarios during our collaboration with Sybase to develop a fully functioning data warehouse solution based on open industry standards and commercially available systems. Doing so enabled us to prove to our customers that this solution would deliver the performance, scalability and TCO improvements that they were demanding. This audit takes everything we addressed - from scalability and storage cost reduction to query speeds and deployment cost reduction - up a notch. This is a real solution, solving real customer problems, in real time."

-Ravi Pendekanti, solutions marketing director, Sun Microsystems Inc.

"In building the Reference Architecture, we recognized the importance of quantity and quality of data management and maintenance, data compression, multiple-node scalability and data loading in overall architecture functionality. This independent audit not only validates our claims, but completely blows away competitive offerings and sets a new bar for high-end data warehouse solutions."

-Eric Miles, senior vice president and general manager of the Sybase Business Intelligence Division

Analysts:

"Sybase and Sun have developed a data warehouse solution that effectively addresses the challenges that accompany increasing amounts of data - performance, flexibility and total cost-of-ownership. With a combination of compression and sophisticated access technique, Sybase/Sun allow companies to expand their data warehouses and manage large amounts of data, while decreasing the costs of storing this information. The potential cost savings, coupled with performance benefits, address key concerns of companies that aim to implement large-scale data warehouses."

- Richard Winter, President, Winter Corporation

"The Sun/Sybase relationship represents a significant third player in very large database warehouses along with Teradata and IBM. Sun's storage and server advantages along with Sybase IQ Multiplex's database advantages represents a good fit for this market."

-Wayne Eckerson, The Data Warehousing Institute

"It's almost universally true that the larger an enterprise data warehouse, the more important and time-critical the demands for actionable information from that warehouse. Enterprise IT executives are constantly challenged to tame very large data warehouses and to extract from them business value that justifies their often daunting costs and complexities. The jointly developed Sun/Sybase Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture allows IT executives to transform mountains of unwieldy data into 'The Incredible Shrinking Data Warehouse,' significantly reducing costs of ownership and operation while increasing return on investment and business benefits."

- Michael Dortch, Principal Analyst, Robert Frances Group

"Data warehousing is an exercise in tradeoffs. To take one example, the sheer size of the data warehouse - the terabytes of disk space it consumes - often impacts the speed at which the data can be refreshed and analyzed. y improving analytical speed while saving disk space, Sybase and Sun have demonstrated technical acumen that increases business value. Using the un/Sybase Enterprise Data Warehousing Reference Architecture, their customers can now not only save money through lower cost of ownership, but can also tackle very large analytical problems. Put simply, their customers are getting more analysis for less money - a winning combination."

- Guy Creese, Aberdeen Group

"The Sybase and Sun data warehouse reference architecture offers unique value to companies looking to build a high-end data warehouse by making data warehouse projects much less risky. Given that these projects often cost millions of dollars in hardware, software and consulting, this is a major benefit. The reference architecture reduces risk because its provides a proven blueprint to build upon, and it reduces cost because it saves on storage requirements as well as design and implementation time."

- David McGoveran, Alternative Technologies