Three happy 100 terabyte-plus customers for DATAllegro
Over on my Network World blog, I asked the question “So who are DATAllegro’s actual current customers?” As regular readers know, that’s a fairly hard question to answer. TEOCO is widely known as...
View ArticleMy current customer list among the data warehouse specialists
One of my favorite pages on the Monash Research website is the list of many current and a few notable past customers. (Another favorite page is the one for testimonials.) For a variety of reasons, I...
View ArticleMicrosoft/DATAllegro time frame announced
Edit: Actually, an email did eventually wend its way to me about a day later, which evidently had run into major congestion somewhere in the intertubes. My resolve to eschew scathing sarcasm is being...
View ArticleAdvance sound bites on the Microsoft/DATAllegro announcement
Microsoft said they’d prebrief me on at least the DATAllegro part of tomorrow’s SQL Server announcements, but that didn’t turn out to happen (at least as of 9 pm Eastern time Sunday night). An...
View ArticleClosing the book on the DATAllegro customer base
I’m prepared to call an end to the “Guess DATAllegro’s customers” game. Bottom line is that there are three in all, two of which are TEOCO and Dell, and the third of which is a semi-open secret. I...
View ArticleDATAllegro sales price: $275 million
According to a press release announcing a venture capitalist’s job change, Microsoft purchased DATAllegro for $275 million Technically, that needn’t shut down the rumor mill altogether, since given the...
View ArticleThe future of data marts
Greenplum is announcing today a long-term vision, under the name Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC). Key observations around the concept — mixing mine and Greenplum’s together — include: Data marts aren’t...
View ArticleFacts and rumors
Vertica is putting out a press release today touting its 100th customer, and talking of triple digit growth last year. Multiple sources have told me that the DATAllegro system is being thrown out of...
View ArticleLayering of database technology & DBMS with multiple DMLs
Two subjects in one post, because they were too hard to separate from each other Any sufficiently complex software is developed in modules and subsystems. DBMS are no exception; the core trinity of...
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Are analytic RDBMS and data warehouse appliances obsolete?
I used to spend most of my time — blogging and consulting alike — on data warehouse appliances and analytic DBMS. Now I’m barely involved with them. The most obvious reason is that there have been...
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