I'm sure most of you have seen the news by now, but Microsoft announced last week at the financial analyst conference that it has acquired the assets of privately-held data warehousing company DATAllegro, based in Alisa Biejo, CA, in Orange County.  This is a big day for Microsoft BI, for our continued penetration and growth into the enterprise space, and for our BI strategy and growth in handling large data warehouse workloads. 

DATAllegro has built a scale-out data warehouse solution that has joined together scale and high performance to 100's of terabytes.  While they deliver an appliance (hardware and software together), the hardware is all off-the-shelf industry standard components.  As you can see by visiting the DATAllegro website, they get rave reviews from their enterprise customers, where deployments range from 20 TB all the way to 200+ TB's--now THAT'S a warehouse!  Couple that with their query return speed, and you've got a heck of a productivity tool that makes analysts, DBA's and BI report builders very happy campers.

If you'd like to see the Microsoft PressPass information on the aquisition, please click here.  After the transaction has closed we'll be back with more news and information on how this exciting technology will continue to enhance our BI portfolio!