Blog: Krish Krishnan

« Is there a "business value" for the ODS? | Main | The importance of Infrastructure teams »

All said and done

Whatever may be your technology and architecture, there are the layers of infrastructure that continue to worry us about the performance of your data warehouse and business intelligence solutions.

Broadly classifying the infrastructure, you have the hardware, network and storage. Though each individual layer has had commendable improvements, the holistic solution is still weak. How can we achieve the optimization across the network layers?

Here is where companies like Aster Data are making inroads. The software as an appliance with customization across different layers of infrastructure and in particular the network has enabled this appliance to achieve some "cool" optimization. Ofcourse there are multiple ways to solve this optimization problem, the network optimization is one such layer and yes there are other solutions in the offering.

Fundamentally until we all start thinking about optimization from the data design to infrastructure design, we will not achieve any throughput, whatever the case may be.

I agree that there are several innovations current and in stealth to address the issues, but wait a minute, do we have anything that is end to end i.e. data to infrastructure?

Share: