Greenplum to Deliver 'Best of Breed' Integrated Data Cloud Solution for Global Organizations

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenplum Software, the pioneer of Enterprise Data Cloud™ solutions for large-scale data warehousing and analytics, today announced it has jointly developed a solution that pairs Greenplum's Enterprise Data Cloud platform with Dell's PowerEdge C2100 servers. Designed to capture, organize and manage massive amounts of data generated by global organizations today, the "best of breed" offering represents the industry's leading combination of scalability, power, and space and cost efficiencies, company executives said.

With organizations' datasets ballooning to petabyte proportions, technology consulting firm Gartner has ranked the $30 billion business intelligence/data warehousing market a top priority for chief information officers. Based on the Greenplum Database, the Greenplum Enterprise Data Cloud solution is a software-based platform that enables users to create and manage any number of data warehouses and data marts that can be deployed across a common pool of physical, virtual or public cloud infrastructure. Key features of the platform include self-service provisioning, the ability to manage data on a massive scale and dynamically expand system capacity, and a highly optimized parallel database core.

Bundled with the Dell PowerEdge C2100 server, the solution excels at large-scale warehousing and data mart consolidation. A cluster of Dell PowerEdge C2100 servers running Greenplum operates as a single database supercomputer, automatically partitioning and parallelizing queries, to achieve performance that is tens or hundreds of times faster than traditional database platforms. For additional capacity, organizations can scale out cost effectively by simply adding servers. With linear scalability, performance remains lightning quick even as data volumes grow to petabyte levels.

"With its balance of compute, memory and storage resources, the Dell PowerEdge C2100 constitutes an exceptional platform for taking full advantage of Greenplum Database's shared-nothing, massively parallel procession (MPP) architecture," said Scott Yara, co-founder and president of Greenplum. "Cost efficiency and high performance are paramount, whether it's a new data mart or a wide-ranging Enterprise Data Cloud platform deployment, and the Greenplum/Dell solution is our most competitively priced and fastest solution to date."

In addition to cost and performance benefits, the offering also addresses the issue of consolidation. IT departments across all industries struggle with issues stemming from the proliferation of shadow data marts. The Greenplum/Dell offering resolves this challenge by consolidating these databases onto a single common compute platform capable of supporting petabyte-scale data warehousing.

"Dell is a leader in enterprise technology and our approach aligns with Greenplum's vision of helping organizations reach new heights of effectiveness through data collaboration," said Andy Rhodes, director at Dell. "Together, we are creating a solution that offers industry-leading density, power consumption, and storage/compute co-location."

Greenplum Days

The announcement comes in advance of Greenplum Days, an invitation-only event for Greenplum customers, partners, employees and special guests that takes place April 12 and 13, 2010 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, and will run alongside the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit. Greenplum will make several key announcements at the event. Requests for invitations can be sent to [email protected]

About Greenplum Software

Greenplum Software is the pioneer of Enterprise Data Cloud™ distributed system solutions for large-scale data warehousing and analytics, providing customers with next-generation database capabilities including multi-petabyte scale on commodity hardware, elastic expansion and self-service provisioning, and massively parallel analytic processing. Data-driven businesses around the world, including NASDAQ OMX, NYSE Euronext, Reliance Communications, eBay and Fox Interactive Media/MySpace, have adopted the Greenplum Database to support their mission-critical business functions. For more information visit www.greenplum.com.

SOURCE Greenplum Software