Following up on an earlier piece, DATAllegro has sponsored a second white paper on MPP data warehouse appliances. This one focuses specifically on DATAllegro’s move from Type 1 to Type 2 (i.e., virtual) appliances, via its new V3 product line. The basic tradeoffs of this move include:

• Superior hardware reliability
• Hardware lock-in shifted from DATAllegro to Dell, EMC, and Cisco
• Loss of specialized encryption acceleration
• Possibly a loss of some other performance optimization as well
• Better time-to-market in exploiting general Moore’s Law performance speedups

Actually, I didn’t make that last point explicitly in the paper, but it quite possibly trumps any performance disadvantages from the switch. And Moore’s Law itself certainly far outweighs any other performance-affecting factors.

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