DATALLEGRO TO USE CISCO INFINIBAND SWITCHES IN VERSION 3 OF ITS DATA WAREHOUSE APPLIANCE
Product Architecture Strengthened by Support of Leading Technologies
TDWI Las Vegas, NV – February 20, 2007 – DATAllegro™, supplier of the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform, today announced that it is integrating Cisco high performance enterprise-class InfiniBand switches and Host Channel Adapters (HCA’s) in the newest version of DATAllegro’s data warehouse appliance. Incorporating Cisco InfiniBand networking technologies greatly reduces database query and retrieval request times, while seamlessly handling large data transfers between servers and storage devices with mini mal congestion. For additional information on DATAllegro v3™ see related press releases issued today.
“Incorporating Cisco high performance, low latency InfiniBand switching products improves speed, scalability, and reliability for the most highly distributed and computation intensive data warehousing tasks,” said KrishRamakrishnan, General Manager and Vice President of the Server Virtualization Business Unit at Cisco.
“Cisco’s strong technology is a great addition to our data warehouse appliance,” said Stuart Frost, CEO of DATAllegro. “The fact that the management of the InfiniBand framework is built into the Cisco switches provides yet more reliability for our customers. We also like the idea that customers can benefit from seamless support and a common software platform.”
Cisco Server Fabric Switches use standards-based InfiniBand technology to provide a high performance unified fabric for connecting servers together into grids of compute resources. InfiniBand switches are rapidly being adopted by enterprise companies for high performance compute-intensive applications such as financial data analysis, data mining, market data analysis, and database tiers. Cisco InfiniBand Server Fabric Switches support some of the world’s largest InfiniBand server clusters throughout the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
ABOUT DATALLEGRO ™
DATAllegro offers the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform. By combining DATAllegro’s patent-pending software with some of the industry ’ s leading hardware, storage and database technologies , DATAllegro has taken data warehouse performance and innovation to the next level. DATAllegro v3 ™ goes beyond the low cost and high performance of first generation data warehouse appliances and adds the flexibility and scalability that only an open platform can offer. The result is a complete data warehouse appliance that enables companies with large volumes of data to increase their business intelligence.
Whether you have a few terabytes of user data or hundreds, DATAllegro’s data warehouse appliances deliver a fast, flexible and affordable solution that allows a company’s data to grow at the pace of its business. Based in Aliso Viejo, California, DATAllegro has offices throughout the US as well as in Europe. For more information on DATAllegro go to www.DATAllegro.com.
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