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A 25 Terabyte Data Warehouse Appliance!

Wow -- when I started in the BI business 17 years ago, I never dreamed we would be able to store more than 100 GB of data. That seemed like an astonishingly large amount of data. In fact, my first warehouse project implemented a whopping 25 MB and we thought we were really pushing the envelope. To be honest, I didn't even know what a terabyte was back then. My, how times have changed.

This week, DATAllegro announced its newest product, the C25, a high capacity data warehouse appliance that can hold 25 TB at a cost of $20,000 per TB! Amazing, just amazing.

Between compliance issues, new technologies like RFID, and the insatiable desire to have all the data all the time from the business community, you will find that the capacity plan for your data warehouse is woefully underestimated really fast! The arbitrary limitations on data storage -- it costs too much, performance is really bad with so much data, no one would ever use that much data -- seem to be dissolving into thin air. These data warehouse appliances from DATAllegro, Netezza, Calpont , and Green Plum (formerly Metapa) may be just the ticket to inexpensive, high capacity data storage, retrieval and analysis.

Next up -- the 100 TB appliance!

Yours in BI Success!

Claudia

  Posted by Claudia Imhoff on July 21, 2005 4:54 PM |

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