Jul 2006
Data Warehouse Appliance Powered by Sun and Greenplum
This new data warehouse appliance is powered by the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and PostgreSQL and delivers two orders of magnitude better price-performance over the competition.
The solution combines Sun's new Sun Fire X4500 data server powered by AMD Opteron processors with Greenplum's massively parallel PostgreSQL in a single appliance capable of analyzing hundreds of terabytes of business data faster and cheaper than any product on the market.
At a Glance:
- Scan 1 Terabyte of data in 60 seconds.
- Two orders of magnitude better price- performance over competition.
- Industries most energy efficient solution at only 90W per Terabyte.
- Lowest costs in the market at less than $20K per useable Terabyte.
- Built on the first and only data server that combines a 4-way server with 24TB of storage in a single integrated system.
- Massively parallel processing that leverages a high-performance interconnect, enabling database clustering across multiple servers.
Video:
John Fowler, Executive Vice-President from Sun Microsystems; Tim O'Reilly, CEO from O'Reilly Media; and Scott Yara, President from Greenplum discuss this unique new data warehouse appliance at Sun's Network Computer Launch Event. Their interview is at 1:04:35 in John Fowler's Product Details playback.
Feature Story:
One Terabyte, Less Than One Minute
When Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz called on Scott Yara, CEO of Greenplum, the open source database pioneer, he had one key question.
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| Scott Yara, CEO, Greenplum and Tim O'Reilly, CEO and Founder, O'Reilly Media, Inc. |
Featuring the AMD Opteron Processor
The Sun Fire X4500 server features two dual-core 2.6Ghz Opteron processors. Find out more about this technology and Sun's alliance with AMD.
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"Together, Sun and Greenplum are creating exciting technologies based on open-source that will help power the next generation of companies and services." - Tim O'Reilly, CEO of O'Reilly Media
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Features & Benefits:
Features:
- Super-Capacity Appliance - Database management software, high-performance server, high-density on-board storage.
- Greenplum Scale-Everything Architecture - Massively parallel processing that leverages a high-performance interconnect, enabling database clustering across multiple servers.
- Greenplum Query-In-Storage - Parallel aware query optimizer moves processing to where the data resides.
- Open Source - Powered by best-in-class open source software including the Solaris Operating System (OS), PostgreSQL, and ZFS.
- Open Interfaces - Industry-standard interfaces (SQL, ODBC, JDBC).
Benefits:
- Performance - 10-50x over traditional data warehouse solutions.
- Openness - Powered by best-in-class open source software.
- Value - Lowest acquisition and administration costs at less than $20K per usable terabyte.
- Ease-of-use - Integrated turnkey appliance.
- Reliability - Robust failover and mirroring capabilities deliver continuous uptime.
- Scalability - Dynamically provision additional nodes to easily scale to hundreds of terabytes.
- Support - Leverage Sun's global support for 24x7 operational uptime.
- Quicker Deployment - Factory-integrated using Sun's Customer Ready Systems program.
Perspectives:
Customers Talk About the Data Warehouse Appliance:
"The new data warehouse appliance from Sun and Greenplum is incredibly exciting, and can open up new ways in which MLB.com can share information with our customers and partners."
- Justin Shaffer, SVP of New Media, MLB Advanced Media.
"We are enthusiastic about this data warehouse appliance as it can transform the way companies think about handling big data. In the new era of Web 2.0, data will become the next Intel Inside. Together, Sun and Greenplum are creating exciting technologies based on open-source that will help power the next generation of companies and services."
- Tim O'Reilly, CEO, O'Reilly Media.
Press Releases:
July 26, 2006 - Sun and Greenplum Launch Commercial Open Source Data Warehouse Appliance for Business Intelligence
July 11, 2006 - Sun Microsystems Breaks New Ground for Streaming Applications with Sun Fire X4500
White Paper:
Ventana Research: Data Warehouse Appliances
Ventana Research analyzed the data warehouse appliance market. This market uses commodity processors and hardware optimized for Business Intelligence (BI), and combines them with software built specifically for data warehouse based analytics. The inexpensive hardware and robust dedicated computing power, yield low-cost high performance solutions for BI and other analytics.
Gartner Research: Sun's Low Priced Data Warehouse Appliance
Sun and Greenplum's new Data Warehouse appliance is priced well below competing offerings; which gives it the potential to act as a disruptive force within the Data Warehouse DBMS market.
Brochure:
Data Warehousing Reinvented
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The solution combines Sun's new Sun Fire X4500 data server powered by AMD Opteron processors with Greenplum's massively parallel PostgreSQL in a single appliance capable of analyzing hundreds of terabytes of business data faster and cheaper than any product on the market.
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