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- - - different types and multiple levels of partitioning. DATAllegro also places great importance on the calibre of the Such flexibility in partitioning is critical for today’s new data technical support it receives from Ingres. Howcroft recalls warehousing paradigm which sees large organisations not instances where Ingres deployed its own technicians on site only having to retain data for longer periods of time, but also at DATAllegro’s HQ, at very short notice, to help resolve early maintain much more granularity. teething problems. A similar level of commitment continues to this day. For example where a Telco may have been legally required to keep six months worth of data, legisla- “We’ve always had fantastic support from Ingres tive changes may now dictate a two-year retention and many of the original developers are still with period. In retail, where once storing overall customer the company. That’s another area where Ingres is and basket value may have been enough, advances in very different from other open source analytics and customer life cycle management now on the market.” mean basket contents, individual product lines and Further evidence of the value of Ingres to DATAllegro other information can be of great value. came recently when both companies reaffirmed and appliances like those from DATAllegro strengthened their collaborative relationship. As a are the industry’s latest response to these needs, not result DATAllegro contributes code into the Ingres only distributing the storage and query processing development process, while Ingres assists DATAllegro load but bringing inherent scalability and resilience. If in sales to key accounts through the Ingres enterprise more storage or processing is required, users can sim- sales force. ply scale up the appliance by adding additional units. But perhaps the last word belongs to the highly “In that kind of environment the database is very sig- respected industry analyst firm Gartner. In its recent nificant,” explains Howcroft. “Ingres has great support Magic Quadrant report on data warehouse DBMS it for partitioning and it means our customers can ask a put DATAllegro squarely in the visionaries category, question however they want and get a fast response. noting how its ‘use of a full RDBMS [Ingres] lets it You don’t have to view the data in just one hierarchical pursue a data warehouse architecture that combines opera- fashion. There are many examples where Ingres has given us tional systems with analytics in a mixed workload’. additional power to answer end-user queries faster, so they can focus on the answers, not whether they are asking the questions the right way.”

About DATAllegro About Ingres Corporation DATAllegro offers the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an Ingres Corporation is the world’s leading provider of business open enterprise-class platform. By combining DATAllegro’s patent-pending source services and solutions for companies of all sizes. Ingres’ mis- software with the industry’s leading hardware, storage and database sion is to supply the market with the best services and solutions for technologies, DATAllegro has taken data warehouse performance and information management at a price point that enables customers, both innovation to the next level. Based in Aliso Viejo, California, DATAllegro large and small, and partners to reduce their Total Cost of Ownership. has offices throughout the US as well as in Europe. For more information Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres is a young and dynamic on DATAllegro go to www.DATAllegro.com. company. Ingres was formed as a partnership between Computer Associates and Garnett & Helfrich Capital with a product range that has loyal customer base, many of whom have been using the technol- ogy for more than a decade. Ingres is a global company with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia to support its widespread community of users.

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