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Drowning in Data, Company Launches Life Boat

By IGI Global on Sep 17, 2010
"There is a tsunami of data that is crashing onto the beaches of the civilized world. This is a tidal wave of unrelated, growing data formed in bits and bytes, coming in an unorganized, uncontrolled, incoherent cacophony of foam… None of it is easily related, none of it comes with any organizational methodology."

- Richard Saul Wurman, Information Architects

Since the inception of the computer and growth of the World Wide Web, corporations, governments, academic institutions, and research facilities faced an on-going battle with the effectiveness of data warehousing practices. In recent years it has become overwhelmingly clear that the means by which data is stored, accessed and analyzed requires vast and significant improvements. The amount of data found in such repositories has grown to exorbitant levels, and as Mr. Wurman so eloquently states, it is now "crashing onto the beaches of the civilized world."

Simply put, archiving the data is no longer enough. New systems must be put into place to organize, refine, and accelerate the speed and accuracy needed to successfully access and analyze the warehoused data.

Recently, the University of Buffalo-SUNY, in conjunction with the Database Intensive Discovery Initiative (Di2), an academic, government and industry high performance computer research consortium, implemented a new program intended to help organize the data tsunami hampering research efforts and effectiveness. The program, dbX™, is offered by XtremeData, an innovative leader in identifying solutions to large data and complex computing problems. XtremeData touts dbX as the "the next-generation in database appliances: the only systems created specifically for unconstrained analysis and exploration of very large data sets."

"The XtremeData dbX will allow our researchers to perform very complex analytics against massive data sets in multiple science and engineering domains. We strongly believe the result of exploiting these assets together will create new knowledge sooner, and deliver solutions faster," attests Vipin Chaudhary, co-founder and director of the Di2, associate professor of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. ( www.xtremedata.com/news/press-releases/187-university-at-buffalo-applies-xtremedatas-dbx-data-warehousing-appliance)

A new wave of technological solutions for effective, efficient, and successful data warehousing is sweeping through universities; challenging current methods and assisting research teams like those at the University of Buffalo-SUNY and Di2, with innovative applications.

To learn more about XtremeData and their products, please visit: www.xtremedata.com; additionally, more information regarding the current initiatives of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Buffalo-SUNY can be found at: www.cse.buffalo.edu/.

For specific publications on advances in database applications, methods, and technologies offered by information science and technology publisher, IGI Global, please visit: www.igi-global.com.

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