Data Warehouse Appliance
Sun Microsystems, the leader in global infrastructure, has partnered with Greenplum to offer the industry's first cost-effective, high-performance super-capacity data warehouse appliance.
Purpose-built for large-scale data warehousing, the joint DW appliance solution integrates Greenplum's best-in-class database software with Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire X4500 server and storage components into one easy-to-use, plug-and-play system.
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The 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(TM) X4500 data server powered by AMD Opteron(TM) 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.
- Two orders of magnitude better price- performance over competition
- Scan 1 Terabyte of data in 60 seconds.
- Leverages 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.
- Lowest costs in the market, at less than $17.5k per usable Terabyte
About Sun Microsystems
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com
