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Skytide Handles Today's Extreme Data Volumes

Today's business relies on high-volume transaction systems that are responsible for critical business processes—web traffic acceleration, communications, large e-commerce websites, data centers, content distribution, and more. While these systems serve different purposes, they all have one thing in common:  they generate millions of transaction records everyday that are stored in diverse, often complex formats:   network logs, syslogs, clickstream data, switch logs, HTTP and more.

Given the mission-critical nature of these networked applications, business needs real-time access to always-current analytics. It doesn't help to find out why an application on your network failed a week after the incident. You need the information in near real-time so you can take meaningful actions in a meaningful time frame.

Gaining access to the valuable business information hidden within the volumes of this diverse data, is critical to business success, but one traditional BI solution can't provide.

Skytide Delivers Analytics for High Volumes of Diverse Data

Skytide's breakthrough technology was designed from the ground up to solve the needs of today's data-intensive environments. Built to concurrently address traditional and non-traditional sources of data such as those generated by high-volume transaction systems, the Skytide Analytical Platform™ allows complex analytics to be performed across:

• Extreme Volumes of Data:   Skytide can analyze terabytes of data/day
• Extreme, Diverse Data Sources & Formats:   Skytide accepts new, changing data sources from clickstream to proprietary network logs and switch data
• Extreme Access:   Skytide offers users near real-time, finger-tip access to current results and reports

Skytide operates on data where it resides, with no movement, transformation or restructuring of the data required, removing most of the latency from the process. Because data is then re-created on-the-fly into a common XML format, every data type, even the most complex or "weird" formats, can be combined together for multi-dimensional, meaningful analysis.

Using Skytide, companies can now use analytics to leverage the value of all transaction data — as it’s being generated — for a fraction of the cost of traditional BI tools.

Case Study Examples

Case 1: Content Delivery Network (CDN)Real-time analytics and reporting to improve network performance and enhance billing Download Case Study Learn More about Skytide for CDNs This CDN needed to analyze the terabytes of data produced everyday, to produce segmented traffic reports for its many customers and for more detailed, accurate billing. Skytide performed the following: • Aggregated terabytes/day of network control data for real-time view of key patterns without processing & storing low-level details in the database. • Aggregated data from multiple sources and provide customers with near real-time service utilization data via a web portal. • Aggregated billions of network transactions into a billing analytical model to provide up-to-date cost information and to feed the billing application. Case 2: Fortune 500 Enterprise Continuous Analysis of Network Traffic to Improve Security & Compliance Download High Volume Analytics White Paper After implementing new security systems, a Fortune 500 company found that their traditional BI solutions couldn't handle the amount of data generated–billions of records per day – nor the complex format of the network traffic logs. The company turned to Skytide to ensure their security systems are working as planned and to ensure their confidential information stays that way – confidential. Skytide enabled them to: Analyze patterns across multiple events to provide insight into possible attacks and breaches of their security systems. Perform analysis in near real-time, without a time-consuming transformation and loading process to get it into a data warehouse Case 3: Wireless Network Provider Analysis of Network Logs for Fast, Accurate Troubleshooting Download High Volume Analytics White Paper This national wireless network service provider was experiencing call failures, leading to degraded customer service. Troubleshooting required accessing up to four different log sources, each containing high volumes of data. Traditional BI tools were unable to handle not only the volumes of data, but the diversity of formats in a timely manner. To determine the root cause of the call failures, they turned to Skytide to effectively aggregate and correlate extremely high volumes of network application log data in order to quickly determine the cause for call failures and to aide in the effort of recovering the quality of service delivered.

 

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For more information about how Skytide can solve your high volume data analytics challenges please contact Skytide at:  info@skytide.com or call 1.650.292.1900.