Posted on Wednesday, February 8th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), the leading provider of business intelligence and data warehousing education and research with more than 3,000 members worldwide, today presented the results of primary research into the adoption of data warehouse appliances, a fast-growing segment of the information technology market.
Based on findings from its August 2005 Tech Survey, Russom reports that 39 percent of TDWI members who responded are currently using or evaluating a data warehouse appliance for implementation in their data center. With pricing models well below traditional data warehouse platforms and measurable performance and simplicity benefits for the end user, more and more organizations are realizing the advantages these purpose-built systems can deliver for achieving business objectives. Additionally, Russom identified one to 10 terabyte data ranges, including data marts and enterprise data warehouses (EDW), to be the main area of opportunity for data warehouse appliances, and sees this growing to the 20 terabyte range in the next couple of years to accommodate exponentially growing data.
