| Monday, February 11, 2013 | |  | | Doug Henschen | | | | | Who doesn't dive right to the vendor rankings when opening a Gartner Magic Quadrant report? So let's end the suspense right up front on the just-released 2013 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems: Teradata once again is in the top-right position, but Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft all gained significant ground in the "leaders" quadrant. The two other leaders are IBM, which improved its standing, mainly on the horizontal "completeness of vision" axis, and EMC, which lost some ground on the vertical "ability to execute" axis.
There's more said about leaders and "visionaries" later. But first, what about Garter's big-picture trend analysis--that often overlooked part? For starters, Gartner projected 10 percent growth in the database management system market overall in 2012. It also noted "a significant increase" in the ranks of organizations seeking to deploy data warehouses for the first time. In addition, Gartner illuminated advanced "logical data warehouse" developments that are helping advanced practitioners to take advantage of big data.
The increase in new data warehouse deployments is a healthy sign that more companies are getting serious about making data-driven decisions. But the last thing these newbies should do, Gartner advises (despite the fame of its MQ reports), is dive right into vendor analyses.
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| JOIN THE CONVERSATION Posted By Phil HD: "The IBM Power 710 for just $5,947 is a joke and is IBM's bait-and-switch system. The system is an extremely basic, 4-core 8-GB server with no OS, no virtualization, no software maintenance, no hardware management, and basically everything is optional--DVD drive optional, memory card risers optional, RAID optional, etc., etc., etc. By the time you add all the options, that are really needed to run the system properly, you're looking at over $20,000! And if you compare a like-for-like, core-to-core configuration against Oracle SPARC T4 systems, for example, the IBM Power7+ systems are 30 percent to several times more expensive. Watch out for IBM's "Option Gotchas."
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