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Fast and accurate analytics drives underwriting precision, enables risk management and enhances compliance. Understanding risk is difficult; it requires huge pools of data to be analysed at speed. As these data sets increase, and underwriting becomes more personalized, this challenge only grows. Consequently, the London insurance market is driving some of the most demanding analytics workloads as, evermore, it is the key to profitability, customer satisfaction and cost control. Analytics, databases and VDI are mission critical applications that require affordable, high-performance storage. Time and again insurance customers are outgrowing their storage performance needs within their investment cycle; WHIPTAIL was founded…

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Everyone in the storage industry can boast about their potential to reach incredible IOPs, capacity and throughput numbers, but there are few who can back those numbers up with real-world testing and results. Enter WHIPTAIL Labs, who recently ran multiple data-loading tests with real data in an Oracle database. The scenario: You have a billion rows of data in a file that you need to extract, transform and load to an Oracle database and only one LUN available. Not only do you need to process that database quickly, but you know that the next challenge you face is to process…

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How to Solve the Big Data Dilemma while Consolidating Your Data Center Footprint Recent initiatives aim to develop systems that allow government agencies to garner insight and understanding from the massive amounts of information being collected at the Federal level. Your goal is to unleash the potential of your data faster and find actionable results quicker, BUT budget restraints are affecting everyone. At the crossroads of lofty Big Data goals and limited funding is the storage decision. Join us for a webinar, hosted by Chris Nichols, that will cover: Architecting Storage for Big Data Accelerating Mission Critical Workloads Analyzing More Data,…

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Everyone is talking about the performance benefits of flash, but what about the economic benefits? Businesses are finding that they’re buying flash to accelerate applications and, as a result, their IT spends are actually decreasing. Maxwell Riggsbee presents research and customer proof points illustrating the substantial difference flash is making on companies’ bottom lines. Register here.