IBM and Sybase cosy up to offer cheap data warehouse in a box

By Stan Beer
Monday, 10 November 2008 08:26

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They may not have any customers in Australia yet but database specialist Sybase and big iron juggernaut IBM promise that a deal is not far away for a new cut price data warehouse appliance they have just announced.

Data warehouse appliances are used to sift through large volumes of data as quickly as possible in order to produce meaningful business intelligence reports. The Sybase Analytic Appliance is claimed to be able to do this faster and cheaper than its rivals.

According to IBM and Sybase, the partnership has produced an out-of-the-box solution that can be installed in days, can conduct column-based queries up to 100 times faster than standard row-based queries and markedly undercuts rivals such as HP, Teradata, Netezza and Oracle.

"We're launching this because everybody is asking how to cut costs," says Sybase ANZ managing director, Dereck Daymond.

"We're looking at an entry point point of a AUD$280,000 package."

While that may sound like a lot of cash, Sybase and IBM claim that it is about one third the price of competing solutions.

"We come in at about 25% to 50% of the cost of a Teradata or Netezza solution per terabyte," says Daymond.

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