http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/23/arguments-against-data-warehouse-appliances/ Choices in data management and analysis Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:22:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/23/arguments-against-data-warehouse-appliances/#comment-16584 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Guide to my recent research on computing appliances Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:49:17 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/23/arguments-against-data-warehouse-appliances/#comment-16584 [...] Half or more of the computing appliance vendors I’ve looked into follow very similar hardware strategies: They use mainly standard parts; they include uncommon but off-the-shelf networking (and sometimes encryption) accelerators; and they of course optimize the mix of those parts and general hardware architecture as well.  (EDIT: I actually gave names to three strategies — even if they were just “Type 0″, “Type 1″, and “Type 2″ — in this overview of data warehouse appliance vendors. And in another post I considered arguments about whether one would want a data warehouse appliance at all.)  Examples I’ve posted about recently include – and I quote the forthcoming column – “DATallegro and Teradata (data warehousing), Cast Iron Systems (data integration), Barracuda Networks (security/antispam), Blue Coat Systems (networking), and Juniper (security and networking).”  (ANOTHER EDIT:  But I think DATAllegro’s strategy has changed.) [...] [...] Half or more of the computing appliance vendors I’ve looked into follow very similar hardware strategies: They use mainly standard parts; they include uncommon but off-the-shelf networking (and sometimes encryption) accelerators; and they of course optimize the mix of those parts and general hardware architecture as well.  (EDIT: I actually gave names to three strategies — even if they were just “Type 0″, “Type 1″, and “Type 2″ — in this overview of data warehouse appliance vendors. And in another post I considered arguments about whether one would want a data warehouse appliance at all.)  Examples I’ve posted about recently include – and I quote the forthcoming column – “DATallegro and Teradata (data warehousing), Cast Iron Systems (data integration), Barracuda Networks (security/antispam), Blue Coat Systems (networking), and Juniper (security and networking).”  (ANOTHER EDIT:  But I think DATAllegro’s strategy has changed.) [...]

]]>