Red Brick Ships Major Upgrade to Red Brick Warehouse 5.1
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Red Brick Systems, Inc. has announced the availability of Red Brick Warehouse 5.1.5, a major upgrade to its relational database management server (RDBMS) component of Red Brick DecisionScape. Red Brick DecisionScape is Red Brick's comprehensive, integrated environment of products, services, methodology and partnerships designed to provide successful decision support solutions.

Red Brick Warehouse 5.1.5 adds new functionality to enable more productivity in a Microsoft Windows NT-based decision support environment while providing transparent scalability from Windows NT to UNIX for customers and partners developing high-performance analytic solutions. In addition, it offers new features to improve real-time analysis of data through data loading and administrative enhancements.

"Red Brick continues to innovate in technology to support our customers and partners who require the ability to grow their systems, data and users while having continuous access to real-time data in their decision support environments," said Ron Barale, vice president of Platform Products Group at Red Brick. "Red Brick Warehouse 5.1.5's enhanced parallelism in a NT environment helps users quickly and cost-effectively implement a Red Brick solution and then deploy it to a distributed or an enterprise system without changing design. The new features in this product are designed to support the production and use of analytic applications in our customers' data warehousing environments, while still requiring only a minimum of administration."

Red Brick Warehouse 5.1.5 is available now. Current Red Brick Warehouse customers may obtain the new version through a no-charge upgrade. Red Brick products may be licensed directly from Red Brick, or through Red Brick's distributors and resellers worldwide. More information may be obtained at http://www.redbrick.com