Teradata

Every business is unique. Each has its own business intelligence or analytical needs. Some are just starting out, deploying their first data warehouse. Others are consolidating various data marts into an integrated enterprise data warehouse (EDW). And still others already have an active enterprise data warehouse environment.

But every company, including yours, shares some common requirements. They all need new and better ways to increase enterprise intelligence. And they all must be able to seamlessly grow their data warehousing capabilities as their business and analytical requirements rise.

That’s why Teradata Corporation, the world’s largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, offers a powerful family of purpose-built data warehouse platforms: to meet the business and technical needs of companies everywhere, from entry level to active enterprise level.

Each member of the Teradata® Purpose-Built Platform Family runs the Teradata Database, the most robust, analytical engine in the industry. Teradata platforms are scalable, highly available, and reliable. And it’s easy to migrate from one platform to another without changing ETL, data models, or underlying structures. Just as important, each Teradata platform has the kind of built-in functionality that makes it easy to manage and ready to deliver rapid time to value.

The platform family also offers you an end-to-end solution, not just hardware. In addition to Teradata Database, it provides you with the software, tools and utilities, and all the Teradata Professional Services support you need. Teradata also offers specific packages that make getting a data warehouse from Teradata up and running faster and easier than ever. The result: unparalleled opportunity to lower your total cost of ownership and leverage your existing skill sets and resources. The platforms can help streamline your business – and your budget – by replacing legacy systems that require multiple hardware platforms and databases. They can also replace existing single-purpose analytical systems.

Whatever your specific data warehousing requirements, there’s a Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family
member to meet your needs:

Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse
The Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse is the foundation for true active data warehousing. Optimized for strategic and operational mixed workloads, it offers high performance and effortless scalability up to >1,024 nodes and from 3TB to more than 14PB of user data. It also provides enterprise concurrency for thousands of users, applications, and events. It also protects your investment with a proven and unique coexistence capability allowing you to add new generations of platforms to existing systems with full performance thereby virtually eliminating the costly replacement of older technology. The result?

The Teradata Active EDW quickly and efficiently puts vital business intelligence into the hands of your front-line users, giving them powerful insight for smarter, faster decision making in real time.

As companies grow, so do their requirements. Enterprise data warehouse success drives more concurrent queries, higher availability, increased performance, and enhanced workload management capabilities to support the complex environments of continuous and batch loads, operational queries, simple reporting, and complex analytics, all on the same platform, supporting thousands of users. The Teradata Active EDW is configured and designed to meet these challenging active data warehouse requirements.

Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance
The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance is ideal for customers who are new to data warehousing or who want to complement an existing data warehouse. For instance, the platform can be used as a data warehouse, a cyclical data mart, or an analytical sandbox for testing applications before their implementation into the EDW. It can also be used to off-load the work associated with applications that are best deployed on a separate platform, but are still dependent on the data within the EDW.

The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance is a cost-effective, fully-integrated, scalable platform with quad-core Intel® processors, industry-standard enterprise-class storage, open Novell® SUSE® Linux 64-bit operating system, and Teradata Database and utilities. All are pre-installed in a single ready-to-run cabinet with energy-efficient green technologies. That means you can have the system up and running live in a few hours. The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance also enables scalability up to 517TB. This powerful platform member is optimized for deep-dive analytical analysis and decision support workloads, making it the ideal platform for data warehousing.

And it delivers more complex queries, more concurrent users, and better workload management than other appliances in the market today for superior price/performance.

Teradata Extreme Data Appliance
Teradata Extreme Data Appliance is purpose built to analyze extremely large amounts of detailed data to gain deep strategic intelligence from those data. Based on the field proven, Teradata platform family technologies, it enables the very same scalability, availability, and data warehouse capabilities as the industry has come to expect from Teradata. 

This complete, fully-integrated appliance leverages Teradata’s technical superiority at the lower cost per unit of data that matches your volume-based value needs. And this appliance is ready to run. In fact, you can begin loading data and running queries shortly after delivery so you can quickly begin seeing real business value from your investment. What if your requirements change in the future? Teradata Extreme Data Appliance provides the flexibility to migrate to another Teradata platform family member as your needs evolve. Since it runs the same underlying Teradata Database, your data, data models, table structures, user views, queries, and load jobs will all migrate across the platform family.

Teradata Data Mart Appliance
The Teradata Data Mart Appliance is a departmental data warehouse designed to meet the need for a smaller, less expensive system. It allows you to leverage the power of Teradata Database and utilities on a smaller scale – up to six terabytes, at an attractive entry price. The Teradata Data Mart was developed to run a single application, cyclical data mart, analytical sandbox, or it can support test and development workloads.

It’s simple to set up, easy to use, and its fully-integrated design means all components and software are tested and ready to run. The Teradata Data Mart can use the Novell SUSE Linux 64-bit or Microsoft® Windows® Server operating system. While it doesn’t scale past a single node, with this lowest priced member of the Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family, you can migrate applications and data to more scalable Teradata platforms when your data or user volumes grow.

The Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family makes it easy for you and your business to leverage your current resources and tools. So your systems administrators, DBAs, and application developers can support multiple systems without the need for additional training. The platform family also gives you the flexibility necessary for meeting both your short- and long-term data integration requirements.

The entire Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family leverages energy-efficient processors and cabinet design. For instance, the Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse is four times more efficient per kilowatt-hour of electricity usage for the same data warehouse capability as compared to Teradata platforms of five years ago. In addition, the Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse requires just 20 percent of the floor space needed for the same capability over older generations. Innovation and thought leadership in sustainability go into each product we design. This is demonstrated by the enhanced Cooling Door that enables Teradata platforms to more effectively utilize the available cooling in the data centers in which our platforms reside.

Why choose Teradata for your data warehousing needs? Because Teradata, the global leader in data warehousing and analytic technologies, provides solutions that help make smart companies smarter. Organizations of all sizes around the world rely on the power of Teradata’s award-winning solutions to get a single, integrated view of their business to enhance decision making, customer relationships, and profitability.

Teradata gives companies the people, technology, innovation, and a world-class network of customers and partners enabling them to gain competitive advantage to master their markets. With Teradata, the smartest wins.

To find out more about how the Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family can help you raise enterprise intelligence and grow your data warehousing capabilities – and your business – contact your local Teradata representative.