Comments on: Data warehouse appliance hardware strategies http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/data-warehouse-appliance-hardware-strategies/ Choices in data management and analysis Fri, 16 May 2008 18:48:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Full Table Scan http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/data-warehouse-appliance-hardware-strategies/#comment-82533 Full Table Scan Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:25:36 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/data-warehouse-appliance-hardware-strategies/#comment-82533 <strong>My Definition of Appliance...</strong> There's been an increasing amount of discussion lately about what is and isn't an appliance, what types of appliances there are, etc. especially given today's announcement by Teradata. Personally, I don't quite understand what all the fuss is abou... My Definition of Appliance…

There’s been an increasing amount of discussion lately about what is and isn’t an appliance, what types of appliances there are, etc. especially given today’s announcement by Teradata. Personally, I don’t quite understand what all the fuss is abou…

]]> By: The Monash Report»Blog Archive » When and why to virtualize http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/data-warehouse-appliance-hardware-strategies/#comment-23528 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » When and why to virtualize Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:00:52 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/data-warehouse-appliance-hardware-strategies/#comment-23528 [...] Just to be safe, don’t virtualize apps that are already I/O-bound or otherwise running flat-out. (So there’s no contradiction to my support for dedicated security, networking, and data warehouse appliances.) [...] […] Just to be safe, don’t virtualize apps that are already I/O-bound or otherwise running flat-out. (So there’s no contradiction to my support for dedicated security, networking, and data warehouse appliances.) […]

]]> By: The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Appliances — my conclusions! (For now, at least) http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/data-warehouse-appliance-hardware-strategies/#comment-16726 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Appliances — my conclusions! (For now, at least) Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:23:12 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/data-warehouse-appliance-hardware-strategies/#comment-16726 [...] Subsequent to submitting the column, I developed a simpler taxonomy of computing appliance types, namely: [...] […] Subsequent to submitting the column, I developed a simpler taxonomy of computing appliance types, namely: […]

]]> By: The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Guide to my recent research on computing appliances http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/data-warehouse-appliance-hardware-strategies/#comment-16583 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Guide to my recent research on computing appliances Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:47:31 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/data-warehouse-appliance-hardware-strategies/#comment-16583 [...] 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. 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).”  (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.) [...] […] 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. 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).”  (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.) […]

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