Your business analysts are still asking for your data warehouse to handle more data, more users and more queries—all while giving faster response times. Despite continual fine tuning and a recent server upgrade, the system can’t keep up. Is it time already for another new server? Isn’t there any other way to get the performance required by your business without spending millions?

Yes, there is. It’s called DATAllegro and it represents a true breakthrough in data warehouse performance.

Over the last few years data growth has accelerated to 100% per annum and beyond, driven by such factors as compliance and security legislation. New technologies such as RFID look set to add to this trend. Unfortunately, the capability of traditional DBMS platforms has failed to keep up with this growth.

There are two main factors behind this failure:

• Growth in CPU power is limited by Moore's Law (roughly 58% per annum) and the fact that traditional symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) architectures do not scale well beyond eight processors.

• Disk performance is not even growing at the pace of Moore's Law, since it is limited by electromechanical factors.

The end result is a 'DW Capability Gap' as the size of a data warehouse grows to 1TB and beyond. In an attempt to cope with the overwhelming growth in data volumes, DW administrators have been forced to accept a costly series of compromises in the functionality offered to the business. For just a few examples, check out the menu on the left of this page.

The patent-pending parallel DW technology embedded in the DATAllegro Appliance allows it to bridge the 'DW Capability Gap' and enables your data warehouse infrastructure to scale at the pace of your business.

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