http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/datallegro-going-with-standard-hardware/ Choices in data management and analysis Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:42:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/datallegro-going-with-standard-hardware/#comment-86596 The Monash Report » Blog Archive » Guide to my recent research on computing appliances Thu, 29 May 2008 09:49:23 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/datallegro-going-with-standard-hardware/#comment-86596 [...] 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.) [...]

]]> http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/datallegro-going-with-standard-hardware/#comment-82931 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services » Blog Archive » Dataupia – low-end data warehouse appliances Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:06:47 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2007/01/27/datallegro-going-with-standard-hardware/#comment-82931 [...] 1 appliances, which most other data warehouse appliance vendors (Teradata excepted) have moved away from. And there actually seems to be very little special about the hardware design to take advantage of [...] [...] 1 appliances, which most other data warehouse appliance vendors (Teradata excepted) have moved away from. And there actually seems to be very little special about the hardware design to take advantage of [...]

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