This April, Lenovo teamed with Actian to deliver the powerful Vectorwise Data Mart Appliance, offering a pre-configured software and hardware solution designed to be the most effective data analytics solution for businesses of any size. The Data Mart Appliance combines Lenovo’s industry-leading ThinkServer hardware with Actian’s record-breaking Vectorwise database. By matching smart software with high-performance, affordable hardware, the Data Mart Appliance represents a collaboration of world-class platforms that offers businesses an immediate plug-and-play solution for accessing and analyzing data.

With increasing customer demands for faster performance and a wider variety of appliances, analytics and business intelligence, the combined experience of Vectorwise and Lenovo is the complete package for a data solution in any organization. Engineered to accelerate Big Data project implementations on an enterprise-scale data warehousing solution, the Vectorwise Data Mart Appliance offers:

• Performance: The appliance features the record-breaking Vectorwise database optimized to run on the Lenovo ThinkServer RD240, an ideal workhorse server that provides the capacity and power needed to process large transactions.
• Affordability: Starting at an attractive entry price, the appliance offers low total cost of ownership by eliminating the need for expensive resources to design and tune the system.
• Fast Deployment: The pre-configured appliance can be in production within minutes of being racked, ensuring fast deployment and the shortest time to get action-oriented insight into the hands of business users.
• Compatibility: Compliant with industry standards for SQL, JDBC, ODBC, and .NET support, the Vectorwise Data Mart Appliance operates seamlessly alongside legacy platforms.
• Manageability: Based on industry standard components, the appliance is simple to install and manage using resources and skills readily available in your organization. With built-in web-enabled remote management, the ThinkServer RD240 will easily integrate into existing management infrastructures.
• Energy Efficiency: The ThinkServer RD240’s energy-efficient features and Vectorwise’s Energy Efficiency records make this Data Mart Appliance an ideal solution for customers seeking green alternatives
• Interoperability: The Vectorwise analytic database is certified with commonly-used Business Intelligence tools including IBM Cognos, MicroStrategy, Pentaho, SAP BusinessObjects, Tableau and Yellowfin.

Feel free to contact Lenovo directly with any questions or check out Actian’s products page for more details and to see how the Vectorwise Data Mart Appliance can help your business analyze data.