The virtual data warehouse appliance dispenses with the need for proprietary hardware and combines the price/performance of Intel-based processors, industry standard, open source software and low-cost disk storage in a single cabinet. The combination of Kognitio WX₂ and blade servers (IBM, HP, etc.) is purpose-built to handle analysis against terabytes of data quickly and simply. By using a number of blades, which can easily be added to deliver linear scalability or on-demand computing, these virtual data warehouse appliances are uniquely designed to eat the elephant that is a multi-terabyte analytic data store.

The market for virtual data warehouse appliances is growing quickly. Kognitio is the pioneering vendor leading the virtual data warehouse appliance software trend running on industry standard blades. The Kognitio WX₂ system scales from less than 100GB of user data up to 50TB and more. Other, proprietary vendors are already rushing to market with similar proprietary hardware-based solutions, and some users are buying proprietary with its inherent risks. This is most likely because they are not aware of the better performance and TCO of blade-based solutions.