BANGALORE, INDIA: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure has set a new Guinness World Record by powering the world's largest 'green' data warehouse in conjunction with Sun Microsystems and BMMSoft. The company received the certification in May-June 2008 and is now demonstrating their expertise across the globe including India.

The significant benchmark was achieved due to the compression capability of Sybase IQ on a Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server. The company's IQ has the capability to store one petabyte of raw data, including unstructured data such as emails, documents and multimedia, using only 160TB of storage.

Talking to CIOL, David Wiseman, director business development of Sybase Inc, Dublin, California said, "The winning combination enables more data to be stored in less space while keeping search and analysis time to a minimum. Apparently, the solution does all of this and still manages to be "green" since it consumes 91 percent less energy and generates less heat and carbon dioxide than conventional solutions."

"The Guinness World Record proves that our data warehouse solution delivers advanced virtualization and consolidation capabilities with the extreme scalability and efficiency to handle the most demanding enterprise workloads," Wiseman adds.

The data warehouse solution is certified to support a record-breaking one petabyte (1000 terabytes) of mixed relational and unstructured data. "This is 34 times larger than the largest industry standard benchmark and twice the size of the largest commercial data warehouse known to date," remarks Wiseman. The data warehouse contains six trillion rows of transactional data and more than 185 million content-searchable documents, such as e-mails, reports, spreadsheets and other multimedia objects.

"As a result of this benchmark, we have shown that we can deliver the largest, fastest and the best in the world and will not showcase Sybase IQ's capabilities to handle real-world scenarios, querying vast amounts of data representing the transactions processed across the worldwide financial trading networks over multiple years," said Stuart Fisher, vice president channel sales & alliances (Asia-Pacific) of Sybase Inc. The team from Sybase is presently doing road shows across major cities in India to share their expertise.

Sybase now a $1 billion company

The Nasdaq-listed Sybase, the largest global enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action has emerged as a $1 billion company with a growth rate of about 18 percent per annum. "We are doing very well and even on the stock exchange our stocks has risen to $35 per share. The company is poised to roll out new software versions from its three R&D centers located at Dublin (California), Singapore and Pune.

Sybase to expand its R&D unit in India

The company is set to double its growth in India over the next 18 months. Even though the company officials didn't reveal the figures, they said that the company has about 300 employees in India is to expand its headcount by 50 percent. The Pune software center has about 200 developers and is one of the company's largest centers. "This development center has team of talented professionals who develop, enhance and support Sybase products & technologies in collaboration with other global Sybase development centers," says Fisher.

Sybase bags major Indian BFSI customer

The leading provider of enterprise infrastructure has recently bagged a major enterprise customer – ICICI Bank – from its global competitor Teradata. Chase Hacker, director Intelligent Enterprise Solutions (Asia-Pacific) of Sybase Inc says, "we are now focusing on BFSI vertical to grow in India and have already have some of the major clients including ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, BSE and Indian Navy."