Microsoft Corp. is all set to acquire Aliso Viejo- based DATAllegro Inc, a provider of data warehouse appliances, as announced on Thursday. Microsoft hopes the acquisition will extend its capabilities of mission-critical data platform.

Corporate vice president of the Data and Storage Platform Division at Microsoft, Ted Kummert said, “DATAllegro is a tremendously innovative company that has started to redefine the data warehouse market,” “Microsoft SQL Server 2008 delivers enterprise-class capabilities in business intelligence and data warehousing, and the addition of the DATAllegro team and its technology will take our data platform to the highest scale of data warehousing.”

“Integrating DATAllegro’s nonproprietary hardware platform and flexible software architecture into Microsoft SQL Server will provide customers with the strongest offering in the market,” said Stuart Frost, CEO of DATAllegro. “We are excited to join forces with Microsoft and continue the innovation this company was founded on,” he added.

Microsoft will retain most of the DATAllegro’s team including hundred workers at the company’s local headquarters.

DATAllegro specializes in large-volume, high-performance data warehouses and counts customers in the retail, telecommunications and manufacturing industries. It is one of the few data warehouse appliances built on a non-proprietary hardware platform including Dell Inc.,  French technology goods distributor, Bull and EMC Corp.

DATAllegro was launched in 2004 and has raised more than $65 million in venture funding since then. It is funded by investors such as Hillman Co. Adams Capital Management, Focus Ventures, Intel Corp.’s venture arm, Jafco Ventures, Palomar Ventures and Venrock Associates. Its recent round of a $20 million funding was announced in May.

DATAllegro competes with Massachusetts-based Natezza Corp., which integrates database, server and storage functions, allowing customers to quickly analyze huge amount of data. It went public last year on the New York Stock Exchange’s Archipelago Exchange, an electronic trading system.

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Microsoft Corp. will acquire the data warehouse appliances provider called DATAllegro, which will extend Microsoft’s capabilities of mission-critical data platform. DATAllegro is based in Aliso Viejo, California. It was launched in 2004. More…

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