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Infobright announced the availability of its new 32-bit Linux version of Infobright Community Edition (ICE), open source data warehouse software. 

Developed after feedback and demand from the infobright.org community, a Linux version of ICE is available in 64-bit and 32-bit. Both versions are available for download on the community web site and development portal for open source enthusiasts with corporate data warehouse needs.

 

Designed for analytics, ICE is a specialized Open Source load and read-only data warehouse, as opposed to a general-purpose database. It is designed to be easy to implement and maintain, eliminating most of the configuration, tuning and ongoing maintenance activities of other data warehouse products.

 

Infobright assures that ICE is simple to manage and designed to handle data volumes from 500GB to 30TB. It combines a column-oriented database with Knowledge Grid architecture to eliminate the complexity inherent in traditional data warehouse products.

 

It also eliminates the costly hardware infrastructure and time-consuming manual processes required to build, tune and maintain a data warehouse. ICE is integrated with MySQL, the world's most popular open source database, delivering the industry's most scalable data warehouse platform for MySQL

 

"The Infobright team is committed to being very responsive to the needs of our community," said Mark Windrim, vice president of community relations for Infobright.

 

"Our goal is to build a strong and vibrant community that makes it easy for anyone who needs a scalable data warehouse to easily download, install and manage it. Providing a 32-bit version was key to that, as it enables users to download the software and try it out immediately."

 

Infobright assures that its latest technology helps companies’ by delivering a highly scalable analytic data warehouse that reduces ongoing management by up to 90 percent and costs significantly less than other data warehouse solutions.

 

Its solution is being used by companies in online marketing, financial services, telecommunications and other industries to provide access to critical business data with unmatched operational simplicity.