CHICAGO, April 1, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Gartner BI Summit -- DATAllegro, supplier of the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform, today announced the release of its software version 3.1, included within DATAllegro v3 data warehouse appliances. The new software version marks the delivery of the next phase of DATAllegro's grid technology and supports various management and integration processes for enhanced ease-of-use.

"The new version of our software is another step forward in the evolution of our grid-enabled data warehouse appliances. Our customers are already benefiting tremendously from leveraging new data warehouse architectures such as hub-and-spoke as a result of our technology," said Stuart Frost, CEO, DATAllegro.

DATAllegro's version 3.1 software includes:

• Enhanced grid technology usability feature

• New query history management and reporting tool

• Added support for user space quotas

• SSL support to enhance security for in-flight data

• Performance enhancements for integration with BI and ETL tools such as Business Objects and Informatica

• Support for scripting languages PHP and Perl

• Partition management to facilitate rolling partitions

• Support for Ingres version 9.1

• Enhanced integration support for Ingrian and RSA encryption key management

• Support for UTF-8/Unicode, an industry standard character encoding that supports a broad range of international characters

• DASQL command line interface, used for automating the ETL process from an existing system into a DATAllegro appliance

DATAllegro's DASQL batch client also operates as part of a recently-released suite of utilities that allow customers to easily move data to and from Teradata data warehouses and to migrate from Teradata to DATAllegro or augment a Teradata system with a DATAllegro appliance. Customers are already using the utilities suite in conjunction with grid technology to build hub-and-spoke architectures to enhance or replace existing Teradata installations. Hub-and-spoke architectures allow customers to benefit from the speed and performance of independent data marts, coupled with the data governance of a centralized data warehouse.

ABOUT DATALLEGRO(tm)

DATAllegro offers the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform. By combining DATAllegro's patent-pending software with the industry's leading hardware, storage and database technologies, DATAllegro has taken data warehouse performance and innovation to the next level. DATAllegro v3(tm) goes beyond the low cost and high performance of first generation data warehouse appliances and adds the flexibility and scalability that only an open platform can offer. The result is a complete data warehouse appliance that enables companies with large volumes of data to increase their business intelligence.

Whether you have a few terabytes of user data or hundreds, DATAllegro's data warehouse appliances deliver a fast, flexible and affordable solution that allows a company's data to grow at the pace of its business. Based in Aliso Viejo, California, DATAllegro has offices throughout the U.S. as well as in Europe. For more information on DATAllegro, go to www.DATAllegro.com.