We are announcing the availability of an Enterprise-Ready MapReduce Data Warehouse Appliance.

The appliance is powered by Dell hardware and Aster’s nCluster SQL/ MR database, with optional software for BI platform from Microstrategy and data modeling software from Aqua Data Studio.

Our product portfolio now allows our customers to get the benefits of our flagship Aster nCluster SQL/MR database in the packaging that they are most comfortable with – on-premise software, in-cloud service, or pre-packaged appliance.

The appliance offering packs a lot of punch compared to other data warehousing appliances in the market – it has the highest ratio of compute & memory to data sizes, allowing you to run rich queries on the appliance without breaking a sweat.

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