We’ve already received significant positive feedback from folks throughout the industry about last week’s announcement that we offer a complete line of data warehouse appliances. InformationWeek, Network World and more have written articles. And at the TDWI World Conference in Orlando last week, a substantial number of folks came up to our booth wanting more information.There’s a wonderful irony here, of course, and it’s not lost on anyone at Kognitio. We were building data warehouse appliances before they were ever known as “appliances.” And we’ve been building to-order appliances for companies around the world; it’s part of our commitment to give our customers the industry’s widest range of delivery options (software, appliances, DaaS).
What’s really piqued the interest of so many is our use of HP servers in combination with our WX2 in-memory analytic database. At the very time that so many of our traditional competitors have been swallowed up by larger hardware firms and are focusing their attention on increasingly proprietary configurations, we’re doing just the opposite. HP servers are industry-standard, but enable us to offer our customers an appliance that costs significantly less to buy, and operate. Plus, HP’s track record of reliability is second to none in our business, and that counts for a lot.
Especially so, as you consider that more companies than ever are realizing that the costs involved with advanced data analytics, or “Big Data,” are dropping significantly. They’re seeking ways that they can implement it at their firms, without having to deal with the traditional gating factors: too expensive, too slow to implement, too long to obtain actionable results.
The Kognitio/HP approach blows pasts all of those challenges. At the high end, our tests show that our appliances outperform our competitors, delivering results of up to five times more quickly, and at one-third the cost. Plus, they’re designed to scale more efficiently. Our approach is simple: if you only need an appliance capable of analyzing ten terabytes of data, why should you be forced to buy one that handles ten times that workload, under the guise of “preparing for the future?” We believe you should by what you need now and worry about the other stuff later, since our HP-hardware appliances scale seamlessly with no loss of performance.
We remain committed to allowing our customers to deploy WX2 in the way that’s most convenient for them. But it’s kind of fun to see all the buzz we’re generating about our new line of appliances. Especially when you consider how long we’ve been doing it.
