Enterprise Systems |

Enterprise Systems |: "Netezza and DATAllegro are competing at much lower price points as they continue to increase the storage capacity of their appliances, capacities which are now in the 100 terabyte range. When comparing their products to data warehouse implementations that utilize traditional vendors such as IBM, Oracle, and Teradata, the appliance folks generally speak about orders of magnitude in performance improvements at greatly reduced costs. Both Netezza and DATAllegro can link multiple appliances together and thus achieve even greater scalability. These numbers are especially compelling as Netezza now has many marquee customers willing to serve as references, while DATAllegro is finally starting to publicize some of its reference accounts as well. "