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There is explosive growth in the data volumes being managed by organizations.

The transition from an average of a few hundred gigabytes managed by the operational store a decade ago, to the many terabytes being managed today, has happened rapidly.

Terabyte-scale operational environments present a unique set of challenges.

Such environments need the performance and scale to meet the most demanding Wall Street trading systems, but at the same time the ability to run intra-day and end-of-day reporting and operational decision support systems.

This ability to handle “mixed workloads”— the happy coexistence of demanding transactional systems and
operational reporting systems — is key to gaining a competitive advantage.

We interview Raj Rathee to gain Sybase's perspective on mission-critical enterprise database management systems.