Teradata Introduces Extreme Data Appliance 1650

Teradata Corporation has announced the worldwide availability of the Teradata Extreme Data Appliance 1650, which is the first platform to cost effectively analyse massive amounts of historical data yielding fresh enterprise intelligence for smart, profitable business decisions at one-tenth the cost per terabyte of stored data, as compared to a traditional data warehouse.

This purpose-built appliance from Teradata Labs’ addresses the emerging analytical needs of customers who demand timely and easy access to extremely large volumes of historical data that are typically offloaded or sometimes even discarded. To meet customer demands, it scales from 23 terabytes (TB) up to 200 petabytes (PB) of user data-and is powered by the industry leading Teradata Database software suite.

The Teradata Extreme Data Appliance, based on the Teradata platform technologies, is a fully integrated, scalable platform with Dual Six Core Westmere 2.93Ghz Intel Xeon processors, allowing for up to a 50 percent gain in processing power compared to the previous model. Like all Teradata platforms, it is built on the Teradata database, and runs on Novell SUSE Linux.

The Teradata Extreme Data Appliance uses high capacity 1 TB and 2 TB disk drives, which offers cost-effective storage for massive data volumes and reduces the datacentre footprint by 50 percent as compared to the previous generation.

“Teradata has packed more scalability and affordability into this next-generation analytic appliance, while maintaining Teradata’s well-known performance and functionality advantage,” said Scott Gnau, chief development officer, Teradata Corporation. “The ability of Teradata Labs to be the first to market with ground-breaking appliances enables us to continually innovate to meet customers’ emerging needs. We are proud that we have helped pave the way for affordable analytics on insight-rich data on a massive scale that helps our customers solve real business problems.”