Infobright Enterprise Edition for Windows Launched

Infobright has launched Infobright Enterprise Edition (IEE) for Windows, the commercial version of its analytic data warehouse software. An open source data warehousing company, Infobright had earlier released its open source Infobright Community Edition (ICE) for Windows following popular demand.

Infobright claims it enables companies to achieve a new level of information intelligence for their business operations.

Infobright’s ICE for Windows has accounted for more than 42 percent of downloads since its release in early March. This confirms the demand for a Windows version of Infobright's scalable and low-cost analytic database.

According to Susan Davis, vice president of marketing and product management at Infobright, the release of IEE for Windows enable users that require the added features and services included with IEE to choose Windows, Linux or Solaris as their operating environment.

IEE has emerged as an alternative to the high-cost, high-maintenance data warehouse products available in the market at present. Along with operational simplicity, IEE provides the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry. The self-managing Knowledge Grid architecture of IEE reduces implementation and ongoing management costs by up to 90 percent and the columnar database is ideal for analytics. IEE supports up to 50 TB of data on a single, industry-standard server by using data compression. This helps to reduce the amount of storage required and their associated maintenance costs. The integration of IEE with Sun Microsystems' MySQL database provides MySQL users with a seamless path to a highly scalable analytic data warehouse.

IEE analytic data warehouse has been designed to handle business driven queries on large volumes of data. It supports up to 500 database users with up to 32 concurrent queries. Requiring little administration to implement and manage, IEE does not require any specific schemas. Since it is self-managing, there is no need to create indexes, materialized views or partition data.

IEE provides fast response times for complex analytic queries. The query and load performance also remains constant as the size of the database grows. The low cost enterprise subscriptions include product licenses, updates, and support. IEE eliminates the need for complex hardware infrastructure and runs on low cost, industry standard servers. In addition to this, a single server is able to scale to support 50 TB of data.