| March 29, 2008
Meet Datallegro's Database Crushing Appliance
By Ashlee Vance
www.channelregister.co.uk
It appears that companies must have unusual names in the data
warehousing game. The kind vendors like Datallegro and Teradata at
least stick a 'data' right in there to let you know the issue at hand.
Tricker players like HP (NeoView) and Netezza do us no such favors. We
assume the flashy names are meant to reflect the importance of the task
at hand - gathering, processing and sorting large volumes of data at
the fastest possible speed.
Like the well-regarded Netezza, Datallegro has tackled the data warehousing job via an appliance. It packages up Dell servers, EMC Clariion storage, Cisco switches and the Ingres database into a large, albeit digestible package. The start-up, birthed in 2003, then layers some homegrown software on top of that package to do the dirtiest data warehousing work.
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March 20, 2008
Clearing a Migration Path
By Andy Hayler
www.andyonenterprisesoftware.com
One of the issues often underestimated by new vendors attacking an entrenched competitor is the sheer cost of platform migration. For example, in the database world, if someone comes out with a new, shiny DBMS that is faster and cheaper than the incumbents, why would customers not just switch? After all the new database is ANSI compliant and so is the old one, right?
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February 15 , 2008
A Lively Data Warehouse Appliance
By Andy Hayler
www.andyonenterprisesoftware.com
DATAllegro was one of the earlier companies to market (2003) in the recent stampede of what I call ”fast databases”, which covers appliances and other approaches to speedy analytics (such as in-memory databases or column-oriented databases). Initially DATAllegro had its own hardware stack (like Netezza) but now uses a more open combination of storage from EMC and Dell Servers (with Cisco InfiniBand Interconnect). It runs on the well proven Ingres database, which has the advantage of being more “tuneable” than some other open databases like MySQL.
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