"We see analytic data warehousing emerging at the forefront of the deployment of data-management technologies in the cloud," said Matt Aslett, enterprise software analyst at 451Group. "This is due to the potential for ad hoc analytic services based on data stored on relatively inexpensive cloud platforms and the fact that MPP architectures, such as SenSage, are well suited to clustered, virtualized cloud environments."
Matt Aslett, Enterprise Software Analyst, 451 Group
SenSage brings the full power of unlimited, elastic storage and processing to cloud based, event data warehousing applications. SenSage Cloud/Virtualization solutions provide dramatic reduction in total cost of ownership by enabling server, storage and data virtualization in a single event data warehousing platform, along with a menu of pre-built Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions. SenSage cloud based solutions are currently being deployed in multiple petabyte scale implementations.
Complex GRC mandates are straining corporate budgets and legacy data management infrastructures. Organizations are facing unprecedented and escalating requirements to analyze, retain, and immediately respond to risk incidents identified through log files, banking transactions, call records, network traffic, and other types of event data. Increasingly, enterprises and services providers are looking to cloud-based data warehousing solutions to lower their costs and improve service delivery. Attributes of these solutions include the following:
- Huge daily loads that exceed multiple terabytes of data per day
- Online retention and analysis for years of data
- Complex access patterns by multiple users, including operational, risk, security and business groups
- Need for real-time, all the time, monitoring
SenSage's breakthrough technology advantage is based on the integration of its patented columnar database, agentless event-specific ETL, and intuitive business intelligence suite, across clusters of commodity servers and storage to deliver highly targeted business solutions. SenSage provides pre-built, solution-specific data marts for GRC, SIEM and log management, Telco CDRs, and others.
VMware and Virtualization
SenSage works seamlessly in a VMware or cloud-based computing environment, and deployment on commodity hardware resources delivers high performance at a significantly lower cost. SenSage Cloud/Virtualization solutions handle the massive data volumes and unique characteristics of event data and include:
- MPP, highly compressed and clustered architecture that leverages SenSage's patented columnar database management system.
- Server virtualization - Full clustering and configuration in a VMware environment with hypervisor for optimal use of CPU cores, memory and other virtualized hardware resources.
- Storage virtualization – Immediate, dynamic integration of storage area networks (SAN), network-attached storage (NAS) and content addressable storage (CAS) as "online storage" in a cloud-based or VMware environment.
- Data virtualization – Ability to add new data sources, reports, and analyses, without requiring changes to underlying SQL or database schema.
- Native support for multi-tenancy on a single physical or virtual instance.
- Role based access to systems, solutions, reports and tables
- Remote and daisy-chained event data collection for additional flexibility in both enterprise and public cloud implementations.
- Real time monitoring and correlation of events for timely notification and remediation of security and GRC incidents.