DATAllegro to Use EMC CLARiiON Midrange Storage in Its Data Warehouse Appliance.Hardware Architecture Strengthened with Addition of EMC's Leading Storage System LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- DATAllegro[TM], supplier of the most advanced data warehouse appliance Data Warehouse Appliance A data warehouse (DW) appliance is an integrated set of servers, storage, OS, DBMS and software specifically pre-installed and pre-optimized for data warehousing. on an enterprise-class platform, today announced that it is now using an EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. [R] CLARiiON[R] midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually networked storage system in all of its data warehouse appliances. Built on the EMC-developed UltraScale architecture, the EMC CLARiiON midrange storage system features combined Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity within the same array, end-to-end 4Gb/s (gigabit-per-second) Fibre Channel technology for unparallel performance, and simple, task-based management software. With EMC CLARiiON as the storage platform of choice for the DATAllegro appliance, customers will enjoy the storage performance benefits and reliability of EMC technology. DATAllegro entered the data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse market in 2004 with a strategy of combining its patent-pending data warehouse software with standard components and an open source database engine. The new DATAllegro v3 platform takes this to a higher level with a hardware platform that uses standard servers, storage and networking from major vendors. The result is a data warehouse appliance with extremely fast performance and a price that is a fraction of what is typically seen in the market. In addition, the architecture enables a more flexible and open platform that has the potential to more rapidly evolve, and to address a broader range of business intelligence initiatives than other data warehouse appliance in the market. "Instead of having to expend huge amounts of effort to develop and enhance a best-of-breed storage solution, we are able to focus on our software," said Stuart Frost, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of DATAllegro. "This is a great benefit to our customers who are able to see more rapid enhancements and upgrades than others can provide at a much lower cost." "EMC supports the 'best in breed' philosophy that DATAllegro used in designing its new data warehouse appliance. They've capitalized on various industry-leading and proven technologies, including an EMC CLARiiON networked storage system. This relationship provides customers with a performance optimized and highly available data warehouse solution," said Chuck Hollis, Vice President, Technology Alliances, EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. . "The data warehouse market has recently attracted a variety of large players such as IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , HP and Sun. Some have their own technology, but others are using partnerships to obtain a share of this rapidly growing market. EMC's relationship with DATAllegro is a win-win for both companies enabling each to have a stronger presence and offering in this space," said Dan Vesset, business analytics research director at IDC. "DATAllegro's move to an open platform is yet another signal of a price/performance realignment re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. in the data warehousing market, presenting organizations seeking a business analytics solution an attractive alternative." In addition, DATAllegro's customers will benefit from the EMC CLARiiON Ultrascale architecture that delivers high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. and industry-leading performance. For further information on DATAllegro v3 and other new partnerships, see additional press releases from today. ABOUT DATALLEGRO([TM]) DATAllegro offers the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform. By combining DATAllegro's patent-pending software with the industry's leading hardware, storage and database technologies, DATAllegro has taken data warehouse performance and innovation to the next level. DATAllegro v3[TM] 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 Aliso Viejo is a city in Orange County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, Aliso Viejo population was 40,166. Aliso Viejo became Orange County's 34th city on July 1, 2001, and has been the only city in Orange County to incorporate since 2000. , 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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