Sun and Greenplum develop world's most cost-effective high-performance Data Warehousing solution

Set to transform the economics of data warehousing, this is the industry's first super-capacity, cost-effective appliance that integrates database, server and storage components into one easy-to-use system.

Sun and Greenplum have developed a Data Warehousing solution that uses 90 per cent less storage, consumes 91 per cent less energy and generates less heat and carbon dioxide than conventional solutions.

• More than 10x the annual savings on your electricity bill
• 10x reduction in annual CO2 emissions
• Reduced storage footprint by a factor of 6x

Changing the economics of data warehousing

This purpose-built, high-performance solution offers:

The world's largest data warehousing solution

This is enabled by the Sun Fire X4500 which is a four-way x64 server that delivers high data throughput at around half the cost of traditional solutions:

Greenplum's MPP PostgreSQL database enables parallel processing to distribute data across all disks in the system and streamline complex data demands.

A revolution in data warehousing

Around the globe, organisations such as a leading Asia Pacific wireless service provider, Smart Communications, have selected the Sun Data Warehouse solution for superior performance.

With more than 22 million subscribers generating an average of 700 million text messages per day, the carrier needed a highly scalable storage solution. The Data Warehouse Appliance will increase performance and scale to enable better understanding of customers and their needs.