Technology Evaluation Finds Quecloud™ Data Integration And Data Management Cloud To Be Innovative And Well-Suited To Solve Complex Data Integration Challenges

Report Praises Queplix for Innovative Approach to Connecting, Moving, and Harmonizing Data Across Enterprises with High Degree of Automation and Simplicity

In contrast, "Batch oriented bulk data movement ... best served by the traditional ETL model" offered by companies such as Informatica.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 28, 2011 – Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data integration and data management, today announced the availability of a report on data integration solutions by IdealNet, a provider of professional business expertise and technical services to some of the world's largest pharmaceutical, medical device, health insurance and financial services companies. The report, An Analysis of Data Integration Technologies, summarizes the findings of an evaluation comparing ETL and open source solutions, and offers recommendations as to which technologies would be most appropriate based on an organization's data integration requirements.

IdealNet has managed numerous data integration software selection projects, including Master Data Management (MDM), on behalf of multiple customers. In order to ensure "current and comprehensive" results for its clients, IdealNet, Inc. expanded the number of possible solutions to be examined during these selection projects, and was "pleasantly surprised at the variety of new and different approaches which have emerged that improve on the ubiquitous ETL model. 

The report evaluates product offerings across 59 areas within 11 specific categories, which represent the most common and most difficult segments of data integration challenges faced by companies today:

·       Business Application

·       Platform Deployment

·       Connectivity to Data Sources

·       Synchronization

·       Transformation

·       Data Movement

·       Test, Development and Operations Environments

·       Data Modeling

·       Data Quality and Data Governance

·       Architecture

·       Standards

Findings and Recommendations: Queplix the Greatest Surprise of All

The report suggests that data integration and movement between two discrete sources can be well served, perhaps with differing costs and implementation models, by all technologies reviewed. Batch oriented bulk data movement is an area which continues to be best served by the traditional ETL model.

However, the report asserts that once an organization needs to integrate disparate data types (relational, object, on-premise, cloud, nosql) or more than two sources, there are compelling incentives for the use of technology other than ETL, and that "this is where the divergence occurs and where the most telling and interesting results reside."

The following summarizes IdealNet's evaluation between established ETL vendor Informatica®, open source platforms offered by Talend™, Pentaho™, and Apatar™, and "new and different solution vendor" Queplix™.

·       Large, Established ETL Vendor: According to IdealNet, Informatica® was selected to represent the ETL segment, as it has long been a standard bearer for ETL and, more recently, has expanded its footprint further into the niche MDM area via its acquisition of Siperian®. "As the gorilla of the bunch, this offering suffers from similar issues as compared to any vendor its age, scope, and size. The firm must continue to support a large user base on varying levels of its technology, while attempting to continue to move its products forward simultaneously. While this situation encapsulates recurring revenue streams via long term customer relationships, it can also easily serve to mute the possibility of significant innovation. Based on our examination, we can see that the Informatica® suite of products continues to lead in core ETL specialty areas, but does, in fact lag behind the others within this study in terms of certain key areas of differentiation."

·       New and Different Solution Vendor: The report states that, "Queplix undoubtedly provided the greatest surprise of all" and that "the firm has demonstrated a truly refreshing and innovative approach to connecting, moving, and harmonizing data across enterprises. The high degree of automation and the attendant ease-of-use can potentially offer users significant labor and implementation savings over the use of alternate technologies, perhaps on the order of 50 percent or more. If the integration were to involve 3, 4, 5 or more sources, the savings would potentially be much higher. We were impressed with the fact that the technology base of Queplix has so effectively been structured so as to allow the company to rapidly and effectively expand the scope of what can be done with the product. Even some of the most complex and onerous data tasks are handily placed directly under the control of end users via the product’s 'virtual' architecture coupled with a clean and predictable user interface."

"As a partner of industry-leading life sciences and financial services organizations, IdealNet, Inc. is entrusted with having the best knowledge of available technologies to meet its clients' data integration and data management requirements," said Mark Cashman, CEO, Queplix. " IdealNet is certainly well-positioned to make informed, intelligent purchasing recommendations to its clients to ensure their satisfaction and success. We couldn't be more pleased that it found Queplix to be a solution of choice for companies with more complex data integration challenges looking to spend their project dollars more wisely, and avoid long service engagements, manual processes, and the constant wholesale movement of entire data sets."

About the Author

Christopher C. Biddle, CEO of IdealNet, Inc., has delivered expert business and technical services to the life sciences and finance industries for 20 years, and established two corporations to provide key solutions to clients in the areas of revenue management, finance, and sales force automation. He has provided consulting services to C-level executives at companies such as Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust New York Corporation, Société Générale, Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, TEVA, Wyeth, and GlaxoSmithKline. In addition, he has held partner and vice president positions with Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC), Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), and iMany, Inc. Biddle has authored numerous papers, articles, and book chapters on business and been invited to speak at select industry conferences including those sponsored by CBI and IIR.

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@Gridstore Announces Partner Ecosystem to Deliver Scale-Out NAS Solutions for the SMB Market

GRIDSTORE EXPANDS PARTNER ECOSYSTEM AS DEMAND FOR SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTIONS FOR THE SMB MARKET ACCELERATES

Gridstore Partner Program Enables Managed Service Providers and Value Added Resellers to Expand Solutions Portolio to Deliver Enterprise-Class Storage for SMBs at Half the Cost of Standalone NAS

Mountain View, CA. – June 28, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions for the SMB market, today announced its expanded partner ecosystem as demand for its Scale-out NAS solutions accelerate worldwide. Featuring a proven four step partner building process
that includes tools and support for prospecting, recruiting, activating and growing new clients, the Gridstore Partner Program offers both managed service providers (MSPs) and value added resellers (VARs) the resources they need to successfully capitalize on the expansive storage opportunity in the small-to-mid-sized business (SMB) market.

The NAS market is expected to exceed $6 Billion by 2014, according to the IDC Worldwide Enterprise Storage Systems forecast. The SMB market is poised to take a significant share of this market with products like the Grisdstore Scale-out NAS solution that eliminates silos of traditional NAS and delivers the performance, reliability and scalability that organizations demand. The Gridstore offering is integrated with the Microsoft Windows Management Console and requires no storage expertise to implement, or manage. As a result, MSPs and VARs can leverage existing skill sets to deliver a comprehensive storage solution for SMBs with enterprise-class capabilities at half the cost of standalone NAS offerings.

“SMBs are facing the same storage challenges as larger enterprises, but don’t have the resources or budget to effectively manage their 24/7 operations,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “If storage stops their business stops and this is a risk they can’t afford. “Gridstore is addressing this major market gap by providing an enterprise-class, scale-out NAS solution customers need with the simplicity and reliability they require. Expanding our channel partner ecosystem is an important component of our distribution model to help us rapidly advance market availability and gives MSPs and VARs a turnkey solution for the SMB market.”

Most SMBs run on standalone storage that has a single point of failure and if the storage system stops – their business stops. Using the Gridstore offering, MSPs and VARs can deliver a powerful NAS storage grid for SMBs that eliminates storage sprawl and multiple single points of failure while reducing the cost of standalone NAS solutions at unprecedented price points. The Gridstore storage platform is designed to eliminate the risk, cost and complexity of traditional silo-based storage and gives SMBs a “Pay as you Grow” pricing model that allows organizations to add storage as needed to eliminate the high cost of over provisioning and managing storage resources - while minimizing the reliability and risk of multiple NAS storage silos.

The Gridstore Partner Program
Gridstore supports its Scale-out NAS solution with a comprehensive partner program to fuel its partners’ success throughout the entire customer lifecycle. The Gridstore Partner Program is designed to offer end-to-end support for MSPs and VARs looking to drive increased revenues by capitalizing on the increasing SMB customer demand for high availability storage solutions. Members of the Gridstore Partner Program receive innovative marketing and financial initiatives including resources, tools and support for prospecting, recruiting, activating and delivering new turnkey storage solutions to their customer base. Components of the program include deal registration and protection, co-funded demand generation opportunities and professional services. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/ljbuG

Applauds from Gridstore Partners
Bitech Systems Ltd. is a Gridstore Premier Partner that offers disk-to-disk backup for its customers in the education industry using the Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution. “For us, downtime is not an option,” said Luke Hetreed, Bitech Systems Ltd. “With Gridstore that isn’t ever a concern. Their solution not only eliminates single points of failure, it is also simple and cost effective to manage and grow. Adding to the value of their solution is the dedicated support and resources available to us through the Gridstore partner program. It has given us the resources we needed to rapidly take advantage of the growing storage requirements of our education customers and gives them a compelling, nonstop storage experience.”

Concentus is a customer-focused IT services and solution provider and is a premier Gridstore partner. “Gridstore has given us a powerful solution for true competitive differentiation as both an MSP and a VAR,” said Fernando Sabio, principal partner, Concentus. “It eliminates single points of failure and reduces customer support costs so that we can remain exceptionally competitive. The education market in particular has extensive storage sprawl and storage growth issues. Scale-out NAS can grow as needed, so it’s a perfect fit for this market, especially since we can now offer price points that were just not possible before we partnered with Gridstore.”

Dedicated IT, a regional MSP in Florida, is a Gridstore Premier Partner Program. “Gridstore offers the next generation storage grid solution that gives us the ability to deliver the high availability, high performance, scalable and affordable solution that our customers need,” said Adam Steinhoff, CEO, Dedicated IT. “Even more, Gridstore increases our profitability by reducing the time required for on-site call outs, upgrades and preventative maintenance. It’s a revolutionary solution for MSPs serving the SMB market.”

Lanit is an IT service provider is a Gridstore Premier Partner that uses the Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution both internally and to support the desktop virtualization and cloud solutions it delivers for companies throughout the Midwest. “Gridstore offers the scalable storage solution we needed without the risk of downtime or failure,” said Tony Painter, CEO, Lanit. “It was simply everything we needed to get started and even more to help grow our business by providing our customers with a simple, affordable storage experience that allows them to eliminate storage sprawl and grow without the need to overprovision resources.”

Outsource IT is a Gridstore Premier Partner and has deployed the Gridstore Scale-out NAS platform to support four different business use cases including shadow imaging of its clients’ servers and desktops, backup to the cloud, medical image archiving and SMB hosting services. “For cost effective, scalable storage that is both high performance and always available, nothing beats the Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution which gives us a compelling solution for our customers and a competitive advantage in the market,” said Mark Vilet, CTO, Outsource IT.

Pricing and Availability
The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution is available now through Gridstore channel partners with pricing starting at $499 for a 1TB node and $599 for a 2TB node. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/ztgfE

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About Gridstore Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution provides unlimited storage capacity and reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage products. Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution is designed for small-to-mid-sized businesses and Managed Service Providers who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/eFL7V


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@Gridstore and @StorageSwiss team up for webinar to stop storage sprawl with scale out NAS

STORAGE SWITZERLAND AND GRIDSTORE TO HOST WEBINAR ON ELIMINATING SMB STORAGE SPRAWL WITH SCALE OUT NAS

Mountain View, CA. – June 24, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions for the SMB market, today announced a webinar that will help organizations address the issues of storage sprawl and how scale out NAS solves their storage dilemma. The webinar, titled “NAS in a Box vs. Scale Out NAS for the SMB,” will take place on June 28 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific. Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump and Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore, will lead the webinar.

In this webinar, participants will learn how to:

• Reduce SMB storage costs

• Increase IT staff efficiency

• Improve user productivity

• Provide better data reliability

The first server a small to medium sized business purchases is often one that allows for file sharing and collaboration called network attached storage (NAS). As the business grows and becomes a small to medium sized business (SMB), the first point of storage trouble is often that NAS. It either runs out of capacity; can’t provide enough performance, or both. As a result, the SMB is forced to add NAS after NAS to keep up with these demands, which leads to storage sprawl and management complexity. Crump will explain how storage sprawl places pressure on every aspect of the SMB as the storage line item becomes a larger and larger part of the storage budget.

Murphy will follow by explaining how storage sprawl can be stopped by taking a technology that was created for the large enterprise, scale-out NAS, and applying it to the mid-sized market, which is exactly what Gridstore has done with their Scale-out NAS solution.

Registration for this webinar is open now. You can register today by visiting: “NAS in a Box vs. Scale Out NAS for the SMB".

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Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution provides unlimited storage capacity and reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage products. Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution is designed for small-to-mid-sized businesses and Managed Service Providers who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/vb2Yx


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Queplix Introduces Data Quality Manager For Quecloud

The First Data Integration and Data Management Cloud Delivers Advanced Data Quality Functionality with Core Services through a Single Platform – http://bit.ly/kOuXsf 

Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data integration and data management, today introduced the new Data Quality Manager™ for QueCloud™, enabling companies to seamlessly create and maintain data consistency throughout the data migration, integration and management lifecycle - all with a single cloud-based platform. Data Quality Manager is also available on-premise with Queplix Virtual Data Manager™. Both products are available today.

QueCloud, the industry's first data integration and data management cloud, securely integrates cloud applications such as Salesforce®, NetSuite®, LinkedIn®, and FaceBook® with unprecedented speed and simplicity. Data Quality Manager addresses the common data quality challenges that create barriers for any data integration effort. As a central component of the QueCloud dashboard, Data Quality Manager is tightly coupled with the solution's core data integration and data management functionality. This is the first time a cloud-based data integration platform service has offered advanced data quality, integration and management in one environment, performing in a simultaneous continuum that eliminates the need to invest in separate tools."

Today, companies must purchase separate data quality products that run data cleansing exercises in complete isolation from data integration," said Steve Yaskin, chief technology officer, Queplix. "Not only is this more expensive, it's also far less effective since separate products aren't designed to interact with each other. Queplix provides data integration, data management and data quality functionality in a single integration-as-a-service platform. QueCloud and our on-premise product, Virtual Data Manager both now automatically check for and repair inconsistencies as part of the data integration and management process. This saves a tremendous amount of time, money and effort. No other vendor is doing this today."Data Quality Manager delivers fast, automated and easy access to comprehensive data quality functionality for null fields, duplicate detection, syntax error notification, date range checks and much more in a manner that works seamlessly as part of the data integration and management process. As a result, companies no longer need multiple tools; data is made consistent from the onset of integration, and consistency is maintained throughout the data management lifecycle.

QueCloud is designed for the business user - no SQL programming is needed. The architecture includes a series of intelligent Application Software Blades™ that identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from target applications and move it to the Queplix persistent metadata catalog. Once integrated, data remains easily accessible to any number of additional applications, enabling a high degree of flexibility and scalability. As a result, organizations can dramatically reduce the lifecycle total cost of ownership for data management, by up to 75 percent or more over the cost of a traditional deployment.

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About Queplix Corp. Queplix™ is a leader in data integration and data management. Our products enable customers to securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Uniquely, no programming or SQL is required. Our data virtualization and powerful data management automatically harmonize the data between applications. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings, a rapid return on investment and the strategic benefits of true data mobility. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit http://www.queplix.com for more information.

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Cloud Integration in 2011: QueCloud Ties Cloud and On-Premise via Data Virtualization - http://bit.ly/jiR64S

Integration Developer News posted the following article recently:

Cloud Integration in 2011: QueCloud Ties Cloud and On-Premise via Data Virtualization

Queplix Corp. is shipping its QueCloud integration platform, which uses data virtualization for sharing data across cloud and on-premise apps. Integration Developer News continues its “Cloud Integration in 2011” series with Queplix CEO Mark Cashman.

By Vance McCarthy

Queplix Corp., a data integration and data management provider, is shipping its QueCloud cloud integration platform. QueCloud is powered by secure data virtualization and metadata technologies, and can integrate multiple on-premise and cloud-based apps.

Queplix is also shipping a tailored integration solution for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud platform, based on the company’s same core technologies.

QueCloud lets companies quickly, easily and securely integrate on-premise data and applications with cloud applications such as Salesforce, NetSuite, LinkedIn, and FaceBook. QueCloud also supports leading on-premise applications including SAP, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle CRM, NetSuite and others.

“We have the ability to integrate between the cloud and on-premise, or within either,” Queplix CEO Mark Cashman told IDN. “With MDM (master data management) and [data] harmonization, we know when and where anything is changed in the underlying data structures.” 

Driving QueCloud integration capability is Queplix Virtual Data Manager (VDM) data virtualization technology, along with a set of application “blades” or intelligent connectors.

Together, these technologies identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from data stored in applications.

Queplix’ Virtual Data Manager data virtualization technology improves on ETL and avoids SQL programming to virtually harmonize data from diverse on-premise and cloud-based locations.

Queplix blades differ from SaaS connectors found in some cloud appliances because they are multi-directional and can conduct data identification, extraction and integration tasks, Cashman said.

Once captured, information goes into Queplix’s persistent metadata catalog without moving any of the underlying data from its original location, Cashman told IDN. From the catalog, Queplix renders the data easily accessible and shareable to any number of additional applications via the Queplix Engine, he added.

Another Queplix technology attracting attention from data architects is Virtual Data Viewer, Cashman said. The Queplix VDV provides an object-oriented view of a wide range of data formats, including XML, CSV, spreadsheets and RDMBS. Data architects can also see relationships between data and data models used in each format, and even the relationships between different data, he added.

“Data architects eyes popped when they could understand where all their data was in this way,” Cashman told IDN. “All this is letting them combine fields and sources across different data sets to create a ‘virtual entity’ of a customer, amassed from all the different customer records.”

Other QueCloud features include:

·       A simple UI  designed to allow business users to employ cloud integration

·       Data for customer, product, vendor, HR and financial information can be aligned easily and automatically across multiple sources.

·       Tools for data governance, including data dictionary, data quality and data integration

·       Can scale to meet demands of largest enterprise

·       Maintains consistency between data across multiple applications using automated data synchronization.

Queplix Solution for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud

Queplix’s Virtual Data Manager (VDM) SuiteApp for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud, available now, automates integration between NetSuite and on-premise apps or other SaaS services. Queplix’s SuiteApp quickly integrates NetSuite’s SuiteCloud SaaS applications for accounting, ERP, CRM and e-commerce, as well as cloud-based tools and infrastructure.

Core Queplix technologies also lay at the heart of the Queplix SuiteApp for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud. Notably, NetSuite engineers notice a convergence between Queplix’ approach and the underlying NetSuite’s data virtualization architecture for cloud.

“Queplix is built using some of the same principles as NetSuite -- ease and speed of deployment, a rich user experience, and the flexibility of a cloud-based approach,” said Guido Haarmans, NetSuite’s vice president for developer programs and business development. In specific, NetSuite harmonizes data to maintain user interface consistency, and it lets NetSuite customers use their existing security models, he added.

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