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How WinterCorp Can Help

Scalability Assessment – A fast, affordable service for ensuring that new requirements don't strain large data management systems and impede performance. Using a proactive, requirements-driven process, WinterCorp evaluates your system's scalability in light of emerging needs, defines and quantifies its risk factors, and identifies how to resolve lurking issues. Read more...

Review & Audit – Will your database design meet critical throughput, availability and response time requirements? Does your test plan sufficiently explore these requirements in order to catch crippling performance and scalability problems? At WinterCorp, we leverage our leading expertise to answer these questions and serve as an independent auditor of database benchmarks.

Platform Selection – A systematic, vendor-neutral approach to making fact-based purchasing decisions. Applying our experience and knowledge of database products, we evaluate your current and future requirements, map them against the existing and planned capabilities of products under evaluation, and identify the optimal platform to meet your needs.  Read more…

Benchmark/Proof of Concept – Before your database goes live, WinterCorp can quickly and cost effectively test your platform or design. These large-scale, realistic tests enable you to make sound architectural and design decisions, avoid costly rework, and reduce the risk of performance and scalability problems that can disrupt business operations.  Read more ...

Requirements Development – Other consulting firms only define logical database requirements (data format and content), avoiding the critical engineering issues of performance and scalability. WinterCorp addresses these issues by quantifying the database structure and workload needed to meet objectives – providing valuable input to platform selection, design and implementation. 

Architecture – Designing a database architecture demands knowledge of all options and experience working with them. WinterCorp's expertise covers all large-scale architectures including centralized, distributed and federated … all designs involving structured or unstructured data … and all products needed for an architecture to perform and scale to your specifications. 

Database Design – Data's physical organization is key to database performance and scalability. WinterCorp can create a physical design that is based on quantified requirements and addresses performance issues – and can recommend performance-enhancing approaches to data storage, partitioning, key selection, indexing, aggregation, query analysis, reporting and processing. 

Data Engineering – Moving data from multiple sources to a single target – the ETL process – is among the most complicated, time-consuming and costly steps in a large data management project. Our proven methodology streamlines the process, meets time and budget constraints, and improves data quality to yield the greatest business value. 

Proactive Engineering Management – A proactive engineering process for managing risk and optimizing performance throughout the database lifecycle. This iterative approach delivers quantitative insight that either validates your database's ability to meet changing needs or provides engineering conclusions regarding its architecture, design and requirements.

Why WinterCorp

Unique focus: Performance and scalability are among the most critical measures of success in large scale data management. WinterCorp specializes in optimizing the performance and scalability of the world's largest databases. Our proven methods and techniques enable terabyte-scale databases to perform as needed, scale on demand, and maximize their business value. 

Unrivalled experience & expertise: Since our inception in 1992, we have architected many of the largest, most challenging databases in production today. No other independent consulting firm can match our hands-on experience and technical expertise in addressing the performance and scalability issues of very large databases. 

Insight into best practices & products: With decades of experience in large database implementation, we understand the issues that impede performance and the technologies that enable success. Our TopTen^TM Survey of the world's largest databases provides additional visibility into today's most effective database products, tools and techniques.