Kognitio Announces WX2 Version 6.0 to Target Service Providers and Large Enterprise Analytic Services

Kognitio is announcing the next generation of its analytical database software, WX2 version 6.0, which breaks traditional licensing ties and allows service providers to create a flexible, on-demand data warehousing environment for data analytics. Version 6.0 bridges the gap between the data warehouse appliance and service providers.

Marlow, United Kingdom (PRWeb) November 23, 2006 -- Kognitio, a leading provider of solutions to business problems that require acquisition, rationalisation and analysis of both large and complex data, today announced the immediate availability of Kognitio WX2 version 6.0, a comprehensive analytical database software product offering corporate datacentres and service providers increased performance, scalability and a revolutionary licensing model. The benefits organisations can realise through Kognitio WX2 version 6.0 are not achievable with traditional proprietary, modularised hardware-based data warehouse appliances.

Compared to its predecessor, Kognitio WX2 version 6.0 offers three significant new features;

·    a considerable increase in disk performance and capacity benefits;

·    the ability to scale the software-only database both up and down in size;

·    a revolutionary, flexible licensing model.

This unique combination of features allows users to "right size" their analytical resources. By creating a totally flexible analytical environment, Kognitio now allows organisations to run their data warehouse on a continuously flexible deployment model using the analytical database on a "right-size-at-the-right-time" basis. For instance, a 10TB licence can be used to run one 10TB system, five 2TB systems or ten 1TB systems depending on the requirements of the specific project. With the benefits of commodity hardware granularity and scalable power, Kognitio's flexible licensing model allows service providers to easily deploy on-demand resources.

Moreover, version 6.0's improved disk performance has been tailored to help large-scale enterprises who may provide services to multiple divisions. The primary objective is to balance the lowest total cost of ownership, performance, management and administration of their in-house customer's corporate data warehouse whilst still providing industry-leading performance and ultimately gain first mover competitive advantage.

"Version 6.0 is unique in the Data Warehousing market," explains Roger Llewellyn, CEO, Kognitio. "Whereas users have previously been faced with high initial implementation and running costs for data warehouse appliances, version 6.0 offers a service provider and users complete flexibility of price, performance, flexibility and geographic distribution. The database can be reconfigured to meet the specific demands of a changing project or even changing geography."

Kognitio WX2 version 6.0 also allows service providers, either independent organisations or those within a large enterprise, to offer utility-based teramarts for project-based data analytics. As a result, organisations simply use and pay for what they are using and nothing more. The database can then be reconfigured to meet the next customer's needs quickly and efficiently. Furthermore, in this era of multi-core processing, users will benefit from the software's true MPP (massively parallel processing) architecture which fully exploits the advantages of these multi-core processors in terms of speed of results.

Kognitio WX2 version 6.0 builds on earlier software releases to offer the industry's fastest, most scalable and highest-performing analytical database platform for Data Warehousing. Available either as a stand-alone licence, a Virtual Data Appliance, a BI-in-a-box solution or a managed service, Kognitio WX2 version 6.0 runs on industry-standard x86 hardware and continues to offer the most cost-effective way of creating a Data Warehouse environment. Further to the new flexible licensing model, version 6.0 offers increased functionality and expanded enterprise-class features designed to accelerate the data analytics process and allow users to continue to ask any question of their data and expect the answers in seconds as opposed to minutes, days or even weeks with traditional transactional-based databases.

Pricing and Availability

Kognitio WX2 version 6.0 is available immediately. Perpetual licensing starts at £69,000 for a 1TB system. As the system increases in size, the price per terabyte reduces dramatically. For example, a 50TB system costs from £19,000 per terabyte. For more information on Kognitio WX2 6.0, please visit Kognitio's web site at www.kognitio.com.

About Kognitio WX2

Kognitio WX2 is the most powerful and scalable analytical database in the industry. It enables organisations to query, in detail, vast amounts of granular data in seconds. The software-only solution uses high-speed, Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) technology to deliver an extremely fast data mart/warehouse platform to organisations seeking to gain intelligence from their data.

Kognitio WX2 runs on low-cost non-proprietary, industry-standard hardware and can be scaled to handle hundreds of terabytes of data with performance that delivers answers in real time. This technology delivers the most comprehensive, cost-effective Business Intelligence database platform in the industry and is available as a stand-alone software solution, as a Virtual Data Appliance (VDA), as a BI-in-a-box solution or as a managed service.

About Kognitio

Kognitio is an innovative, technology-rich company, providing leading-edge solutions to business problems that require the acquisition, rationalisation and analysis of large or complex data.

Kognitio's offering is centred around three areas: WX2, the fastest and most scalable analytical database on the market, managed services and data migration expertise. All three areas are complemented by an extensive professional services team helping to ensure businesses gain competitive advantage from their data.

With its industry-leading analytical database offering, WX2, Kognitio is able to turn a company's raw data into valuable business insight fast, empowering its customers to realise comprehensive answers to critical business questions.

Kognitio's managed services model allows its customers to focus on running their businesses and increasing the bottom line. By also adopting Kognitio's outsourced approach, customers are able to reduce start-up time and costs, as well as avoid expensive product acquisition costs.

With a strong specialisation in the insurance (life and pensions) as well as financial services, Kognitio's data migration services help companies to provide lower risk and lower cost solutions to companies that are rationalising and consolidating operational platforms. Kognitio has the largest independent migration services team in the UK.

Headquartered in Marlow, UK, Kognitio delivers competitive advantage to its clients in various industries, including telecommunications (BT, ntl:), the financial sector (Marks and Spencer Money, Norwich Union, Prudential) and utilities (Scottish Power). For more information, visit the Kognitio website at www.kognitio.com, call +44 (0)1628 400 000.

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