ParAccel Joins the EMC Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Competency Center, Applauds EMC’s Decision to Formally Showcase Analytic Solutions

New Center Provides Further Opportunity to Collaborate on the Scalable Analytic Appliance

ParAccel, Inc., EMC Velocity² partner and provider of the ParAccel Analytic Database, a high-speed, low-effort, columnar database management system, today announced it is participating in the EMC Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Competency Center to collaborate on joint solutions for customers’ analytic processing needs. ParAccel views the competency center as a positive investment by EMC to provide customers with the ability to work directly with the vendors to identify the appropriate and optimized solution that meets their data warehouse needs.

“Forming the competency center is an important milestone for EMC,” said David Ehrlich, ParAccel’s chief executive officer. “With their investment, EMC is showing their commitment to solving customers’ real-world analytic problems in a partner-oriented way that will deliver quick, effective results. We applaud their decision and look forward to continuing our collaborations under the formal auspices of their new program.”

“The EMC Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Competency Center is another element of our commitment to helping customers achieve cost efficiencies and more quickly realize the value of their data warehouse deployments,” said Chuck Hollis, EMC’s Vice President, Global Marketing Chief Technology Officer. “Having ParAccel participate in the Competency Center helps enable the two companies to work closely to provide mutual customers with the resources needed to evaluate, plan and architect an optimized data warehouse/business intelligence solution that addresses their business challenges.”

More information on the Scalable Analytic Appliance powered by EMC and ParAccel can be found at http://www.paraccel.com/pages/solutions/scalableanalyticappliance.php.

About ParAccel

ParAccel, Inc. is the proven leader in scalable analytic performance and price-performance. The ParAccel Analytic Database™ combines patent-pending innovations with a columnar, compressed, massively parallel, all-in-memory-capable architecture and is available as a virtual or packaged appliance on standard hardware from all major vendors. It can be implemented stand-alone, or as a drop-in accelerator to extend an existing SQL Server or Oracle investment. ParAccel’s management team includes technical founders and industry veterans from noted data management companies Netezza, Oracle, Teradata, Gupta, SenSage, PointBase, and IBM. ParAccel is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information please contact us at info {at} paraccel(.)com or 866-903-0335, or visit us at www.paraccel.com.

Contacts

For ParAccel, Inc.:
Humphrey Strategic Communications
Scott R. Humphrey, 503-644-9709
humphrey {at} strategic-pr(.)com