Privately-held Datallegro, which is based Aliso Viejo in Orange County, recently closed its fiscal 2007 year and claimed growth of over 330%; admittedly that’s off a small base compared to many of its larger competitors in the data warehousing space that boast billion dollar businesses.
Significantly Datallegro said its typical deal size has risen to $1-3m, which means that its appliance technology is slowly but surely being validated as a viable alternative to traditionally expensive and heavy-iron data warehousing.
According to Datallegro all of its customers – the number of which incidentally the company still guards jealously – have now deployed data warehouses on its namesake appliance of 25 terabytes or more.
The majority of deals are in the 25 to 100 terabyte range, the company said in a statement this week. Datallegro also claims that two customers have systems in excess of 250 terabytes up and running. If that’s the case then both implementations rank among the largest installations in the world.
They’re certainly the largest appliance implementations today, said CEO Stuart Frost.
Datallegro launched its first appliance two years ago and Frost is confident to achieving similar growth in the forthcoming fiscal year.
We set ourselves aggressive goals this year…and are on track to continue our success in 2008.
Datallegro released version 3 of its appliance in February this year, adding grid capabilities for managing mixed workloads in large-scale data volume environments. Datallegro claims to have secured two customers for the upgraded multi-temperature version of its appliance this year.
Datallegro’s appliance melds together Dell servers, EMC storage, Cisco switches and Ingres’ open source database.
