Microsoft is all set to acquire DATAllegro Inc, provider of data warehousing appliances. This deal gives strong data warehousing portfolio to Microsoft.
Ted Kummert, corporate vice president of the Data and Storage Platform Division at Microsoft stated:
“Microsoft SQL Server 2008 delivers enterprise-class capabilities in business intelligence and data warehousing, and the addition of the DATAllegro team and its technology will take our data platform to the highest scale of data warehousing.“
“As soon as the acquisition closes, we’ll start the work of moving our technology from Ingres & Linux to SQL Server and Windows. Our feasibility studies over the last few months indicate that SQL Server is a significant improvement in terms of performance - especially in key areas such as star joins, I/O throughput and in-memory operations. The engineering team here at DATAllegro is excited about the next version of the product.“
Stuart Frost, CEO of DATAllegro
Normally data warehousing appliances vendors providing 1-25 terabytes and DATAllegro has large volume, high performance data warehouse and has largest capacity in the industry up-to 100 terabyte in one system.
After completing the acquisition, Microsoft is going to setup Center of Excellence of Data Warehousing in Aliso Viejo, California and DATAllegro team will retain in this Center. As Microsoft continuously enhancing their data warehousing capacity and SQL server’s scale, and now it is perception that they are very close to Oracle and IBM. So increasing data warehouse scaling, Microsoft want to help all size of customer and allow them to take benefits from next-generation of data-driven application.
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