September 28, 2007

Oracle sincerely flatters DATAllegro

Actually, I’m kidding with the post title; I doubt that Oracle’s new deal with DATAllegro partners Dell and EMC has much to do with DATAllegro at all. Rather, I think it’s an example of a trend I’m also sensing* from other major hardware vendors — doing deals with multiple data warehouse software suppliers to cover different hardware size ranges. This just happens to be the first one to be announced.

*How’s that for a nice, vague euphemism?

DATAllegro is targeted at warehouses sized, at a minimum, in the tens of terabytes of user data. Oracle’s technology works well enough up into at least the multi-terabyte range — unless you’re looking to get the best possible price and/or performance on your system — but then things start getting dicey. So there isn’t a lot of overlap between the two Dell/EMC offerings.

And if I don’t stop right there, I’m going to start venting about NDAs, especially when I’m told “Oh, this isn’t for our sake, but rather because our big-company partner(s) demands it.” So stay tuned.


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One Response to “Oracle sincerely flatters DATAllegro”

  1. Stuart Frost on September 28th, 2007 1:54 pm

    Curt,

    You’re absolutely correct in saying there isn’t much overlap between our Dell/EMC based appliances and the Oracle/Dell/EMC reference architectures – or the similar Oracle reference architectures from HP & Sun. The ones I’ve looked at consider a very large data warehouse (VLDW) to be no more than 12-15TB. As you say, we don’t generally get involved unless a system has tens or even hundreds of TB (is that a VVLDW?)

    Dell also recently announced a SQL Server reference architecture that scales from 1 to 4TB with pricing around $100,000 per TB. I won’t be losing any sleep over that either.

    Stuart
    CEO, DATAllegro

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