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IS this the Year of Data Warehouse Appliance

IS this the year of the Data Warehouse Appliance. With the consolidations in the technology sector still going strong, the opportunity for the new and young companies in the Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence space is emerging stronger. The new offerings will need platforms based on commodity hardware and storage offerings. This is where I see a huge opportunity for the Data Warehouse Appliance.

The market is agog with making the Data Warehouse Appliance a modular out of the box offering that can be bundled in a rack and stack configuration with solutions like MDM or CDI built on top of the appliance. But there is more to this offering than just a modular component that it may get reduced to.

The technology is young and needs more understanding and adoption than what is perceived. The road is long but the journey is not hard. Data Warehouse Appliances by their nature of construction offer high performance and can handle large volumes, by now at least this is a clear point.

With so many competing offerings, which one lends itself to your enterprise architecture depends on your current investment and future needs. With this as a base statement, when you start looking at the technology platform for your enterprise in the data warehouse and business intelligence areas, the appliance provides options that certainly open a whole new world.

While the appliance by itself is not a solution for a BI problem like MDM or CDI or any application, it is emerging as a strong platform for the infrastructure and is being extended beyond just solving Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence needs. IS this the year of the Data Warehouse Appliance?.

In the coming month please see the BEyeNetwork.com site for white papers and research on applying the Data Warehouse Appliance in and outside of the Data Warehouse.

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