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Why the Appliance is gaining on

Whether it is liked or not, the Data Warehouse Appliance has been making the rounds and it is finally getting the attention. Looking at Gartner's latest magic quadrant, we see three vendors in the quadrant (hey they are there with the big biys who have been around forever). In the next year at this time we will see more expansion of names in this area. What has made the Appliance click or get attention?.

The initial focus that was being showered on the Appliance was the competitive advantage of cost, but not anymore. the Appliance vendors have started providing feature and functionality that traditional database solutions are putting on the roadmap as future releases. The very reason that these companies are young and are ready to take the challenge and provide the solution in a record time is proof enough.

Appliance vendors have long shown the ability to move data in volumes at record speeds, the technology is built to perform and eliminates the need for overheads like indexes in most cases, there are situations where you might need them but that is a rarity. Commoditisation has proven the ability to execute in non-proprietary platforms. The ability to scale has been demonstarted by all the vendors.

Appliance vendors have been leveraged as partners by leading BI tools such as Business Objects, MicroStrategy and Informatica to name a few.

Yes, this is a relatively new technology and there is room for improvement. There are more exciting things coming in the next year from this area, and lot of these technologies will be future trendsetters.

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