SAN CARLOS, CA, Nov 16 (MARKET WIRE) --
Aster Data, a proven leader dedicated to providing the best data
processing and management platform for 'Big Data' applications, today
announced it has become a SAS Alliance partner. As a Silver-level SAS
partner, Aster Data will work with SAS to help companies manage vast and
growing data volumes, perform deep data analysis, and benefit from faster
business insights. SAS today announced an expansion of their SAS(R)
In-Database Processing initiative, which also provides more information
about this partnership.
"As a SAS partner, we will be able to help businesses preserve the
statistical integrity of their SAS engines, giving them unprecedented
performance increases during analysis of large data sets," said Mayank
Bawa, Aster Data's CEO and co-founder. "We believe this is a major step
towards further breakthroughs in business analytics. Organizations can now
support more data-intensive applications already prevalent across retail,
banking, manufacturing, media and entertainment, telco, and government
sectors."
"As SAS continues to intensify its in-database efforts, we seek platform
partners, like Aster Data, who complement our analytic offerings and can
help deliver superior in-database solutions to customers," said Russ Cobb,
SAS Vice President of Alliances and Product Marketing. "As a SAS partner,
Aster Data will help drive SAS analytics deeper within the database, and
enable companies to make better decisions faster."
Today's big data applications consume vast amounts of diverse data, are
highly analytics-intensive, and demand massive, but cost-effective,
scaling. Fast data analysis on very large data sets is impossible to
perform on traditional data management systems as they simply were not
built to store and analyze large, diverse data volumes. Aster Data
recently announced Version 4.0, the industry's first 'Massively Parallel
Data-Application Server,' that, for the first time, allows applications
to run inside Aster's massively parallel data warehouse architecture.
The combination of Aster Data and SAS will greatly accelerate business
analytics and will enable companies to perform sophisticated analysis and
process terabytes of data.
Aster Data and SAS jointly presented to audiences at the recent 12th
Annual SAS M2009 Data Mining Conference on the future of big data
analytics and how the combined capabilities of the two companies provide
the foundation for unprecedented correctness and performance during
analysis of large datasets.
About Aster Data
Aster Data is a proven leader in big data management and big data analysis
for data-driven applications. Aster Data's nCluster is the first MPP data
warehouse architecture that allows applications to be fully embedded
within the database engine to enable ultra-fast, deep analysis of massive
data sets. Aster Data's unique "applications-within(TM)" approach allows
application logic to exist and execute with the data itself. Termed a
"Massively Parallel Data-Application Server," Aster Data's solution
effectively utilizes Aster Data's patent-pending SQL-MapReduce together
with parallelized data processing and applications to address the big data
challenge. Companies using Aster Data include Coremetrics, MySpace,
comScore, Akamai, Full Tilt Poker, and ShareThis. Aster Data is
headquartered in San Carlos, California and is backed by Sequoia Capital,
JAFCO Ventures, IVP, and Cambrian Ventures, as well as industry
visionaries including David Cheriton, Ron Conway, and Rajeev Motwani. For
more information please visit http://www.asterdata.com, or call
1.888.Aster.Data.
Aster Data, Aster Data nCluster, the Aster Data logo and
Applications-Within(TM) are registered trademarks of Aster Data. All other
brands and trademarks referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks
or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Press Contact:
Marlena Fernandez Berkowitz
ZAG Communications for Aster Data
303.408.3155
marlena@zagcommunications.com
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