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Sybase, Inc, the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information, today announced the new Sybase® Analytic Appliance, configured and tuned to provide extreme analytics and alleviate overburdened enterprise data warehouses, data marts and reporting systems. Combining category-leading technologies including Sybase IQ, Sybase PowerDesigner®, IBM® POWER™ Systems and MicroStrategy 8™, Sybase Analytic Appliance has all the benefits of a custom-built enterprise data warehouse (EDW), but is easy, fast and affordable—up to one third of the price of other leading solutions.

Sybase Analytic Appliance on IBM POWER Systems provides fast time-to-value by providing a unified appliance console, pre-configured hardware, software and storage in one compact and power-efficient unit, with single vendor support. The appliance requires lower initial and ongoing investment because, unlike its traditional row-based and parallel-computing counterparts, stored data in column-oriented Sybase IQ is compressed by up to 70 percent of its input size, creating the most optimal and elegant appliance solution. In addition, Sybase Analytic Appliance does not require labor-intensive index tuning, reducing overall maintenance costs. Its point-and-click console simplifies appliance administration and monitoring.

More at the Press Release.