Kickfire, Inc. recently announced its next-generation data warehouse appliance for powering mainstream data warehouse systems up to 5TB in size. With models starting at just $32,000, the Kickfire appliance incorporates the world’s first parallel-processing SQL chip, a columnar engine, and MySQL. Designed as a true plug-and-play appliance, the system can be up and running in less than a day. The combination of low cost, high performance and ease of use means mainstream organizations can now afford to do demanding data warehouse projects.

The Kickfire 3000 Series appliance delivers increased performance by running queries through the SQL chip and enables quicker deployment with a streamlined Migration Wizard and a faster Loader. The appliance also includes more enterprise-class features such as high-availability, query-while-load, increased capacity and a RAID card for external storage.

“The vast majority of data warehouse professionals need affordable high performance data warehousing at the terabyte-scale, especially given recent reductions in budget,” says Bruce Armstrong, CEO of Kickfire. “Other vendors who are focused on petabyte-scale data warehouses force users into expensive and resource intensive technologies. Our breakthrough parallel-processing SQL chip delivers the industry’s best performance per dollar, per watt, per cubic foot. We’re focused on helping the thousands of organizations that would have otherwise deferred projects due to cost.”

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