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Krish Krishnan

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein.

Hello, and welcome to my blog.

I would like to use this blog to have constructive communication and exchanges of ideas in the business intelligence community on topics from data warehousing to SOA to governance, and all the topics in the umbrella of these subjects.

To maximize this blog's value, it must be an interactive venue. This means your input is vital to the blog's success. All that I ask from this audience is to treat everybody in this blog community and the blog itself with respect.

So let's start blogging and share our ideas, opinions, perspectives and keep the creative juices flowing!

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Krish is a recognized expert worldwide in the strategy, architecture and implementation of high performance data warehousing solutions. He is a visionary data warehouse thought leader and an independent analyst, writing and speaking at industry leading conferences, user groups and trade publications.  He has authored two eBooks, more than 75 articles, viewpoints and case studies on business intelligence, data warehousing, and data warehouse appliances and architectures. In his 19 plus years of professional experience, he has been solving complex architecture problems spanning all aspects of data warehousing and business intelligence for Fortune 1000 clients. He has designed and tuned some of the world’s largest data warehouses.

He is the president of Sixth Sense Advisors Inc., a Chicago-based company providing management, strategy, technology and analyst consulting services in data warehousing and business intelligence. He teaches regularly at TDWI, DAMA, IRM UK and other conferences, and is helping drive and mature the data warehouse appliance market. Krish also serves as Associate Vice President of Programs for DAMA Chicago and is Ethics and Governance Advisor to DAMA International.

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Oracle Announces Its "DATA WAREHOUSE APPLIANCE"

I'm watching Larry Ellison on stage in SFO, he has just announced Oracle's Data Warehouse Appliance, called as Oracle Exadata - built jointly with HP. The numbers that Larry has presented for performance are good, but not "mind blowing". I see there are a number of similarities with the data warehouse appliances, and the real challenge is being thrown to Teradata and IBM, in terms of customer studies and data volumes being discussed.

According to Larry, the new appliance will be 10 to 50 times faster than current Oracle data warehouses.

What Oracle is doing in the announcement with it capabilities are already being shown in the field by

Netezza
Dataupia
EMC
ParAccel
AsterData

in the field today.

What will make Oracle successful in this space, when they really have this system available will be the fact that the brand name will stand behind the product support from both Oracle and HP.

Well Oracle, you are singing the tune that has been played over and over for the last decade.

Congrats Larry, welcome to the Data Warehouse Appliance Family. You are starting a long journey with the rest of us in this quest for "data warehouse excellence".

As I'm typing this furiously, Mark Hurd just joined and says the "appliance" word is exciting.


Posted September 24, 2008 4:07 PM
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