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The Appliance Gets Mainstream

With the announcement from HP yesterday that read "Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) on Tuesday introduced a BladeSystem server configured for an Oracle data warehouse.

The BladeSystem for Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) Optimized Warehouse is a pre-configured appliance-like offering for the 1- to 4-TB market. The HP system provides the essential elements of a data warehouse infrastructure, including computing power, storage, interconnect, and management.", the data warehouse appliance gets mainstream attention.

What remains still an attraction to the non traditional vendors like Dataupia, Paraccel and AsterData is the fact that these companies are focused on solving a specific need from the data warehouse perspective, while the big RDBMS vendors are attempting an extension on the current platform.

With the cost of storing data becoming cheaper, organizations are looking to scalable but economical solutions, whichever way we go, the market is beginning to wake up and this is great news.

  Posted by kkrishnan on June 25, 2008 9:58 PM |

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