HP NetServer LP 2000r 8-way Systems Enable Enterprise Applications - Page 9

FXVWRPHUýXVDJHýJXLGH +3ý 1HW6HUYHUý /;Uýåèíí &CVC"9CTGJQWUKPI1&CVC"/CTVU A Data Warehouse is the data center main repository of information. A Data Mart is simply a smaller data warehouse for specific sub-organizations (i.e. marketing) or departments. Data warehousing emphasizes the capture of data from diverse sources for storage and analysis. Data from various applications is stored and then selectively organized in the data warehouse database for use by business analysis and unanticipated queries. This store of information enlarges a company's capability to enhance it's "Business Intelligence", identifying positive and negative sales trends, customer demographics and other profitable subjects. Data warehouses once required mainframe scale computers due to their size and the prodigious processing need. Today, Microsoft Windows NT or Novell NetWare servers are becoming viable and incredibly cost effective solutions in this area for all but the largest warehouses. Intel-based servers have been effective tools to fill the role of the front-end or application server, which directs storage to and queries from the warehouse and may perform computationally intense data transformations. This portion of the server market is forecasted to be growing at more than 50% per year. The growth of data warehouses in both size and analytical utility makes the LXr 8500 well suited for companies where this function can improve their competitiveness. Again, the inherently high processing power and capacity for system growth at a reasonable cost makes the HP NetServer LXr 8500 an attractive choice. HP has developed a program to enable deployment of SAP's Business Information Warehouse. This module integrates data warehousing into the SAP R/3 ERP program. HP has developed a suite of services and support tuned specifically for SAP environments. This offering combines hardware (including the HP NetServer LXr 8500), software, and HP and third party consulting. 6JKP"%NKGPV15GTXGT/$CUGF"%QORWVKPI Microsoft Windows Terminal Server is a Windows NT server extension that creates a multiuser environment where all users share the hardware and software resource on the terminal server machine. Applications are run on the server, and even the graphical user interface (GUI) is server-resident, pushed to the clients. Microsoft Windows NT Server Terminal Server Edition supports a full range of clients from legacy personal computers to the new and cost effective "thin clients". Using Citrix Meta-Frame software in addition to Terminal Server, customers can gain access to server resources from clients' devices running even non-Microsoft OS (i.e. Mac, Unix). In addition, using Meta-frame, customers can balance loads between servers in a farm to deliver optimal performance to end-users. 9