Teradata Launches New Family Of Analytical Platforms

Teradata Corporation, a player in the enterprise data warehousing space, has introduced a new family of platforms that addresses many customer needs, from entry-level to active enterprise-level, all powered by the Teradata 12.0 database engine.

The new, cost-effective platform family includes the Teradata 550 SMP (symmetric multiprocessing), a departmental data warehouse; the Teradata 2500, an entry-level data warehouse for companies that are just starting out; and the Teradata 5550, an active data warehouse-class platform.

“The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) is the best architecture for integrated, cross-functional data to support both strategic and operational intelligence,” said Darryl McDonald, chief marketing officer of Teradata.

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Many companies today have legacy and analytical applications on multiple hardware platforms and database combinations for various reasons. These systems are used to meet special business unit, departmental, or geographical requirements, as well as to address compliance and privacy concerns. Special-purpose applications such as fraud detection and prevention, customer segmentation, human resources, and forecasting are also sometimes implemented on separate analytical systems. These applications are driving significant investment in business intelligence and analytical systems outside the core EDW, and lead to complex and costly architectures.

With Teradata’s new platforms, customers can now unify their entire analytical architecture by standardising on Teradata platforms and its database engine. This standardisation saves in training, application development time, system management, support and IT infrastructure.

The Teradata 550 SMP

The Teradata 550 SMP is a departmental data warehouse developed to run a single application or support test and development workloads and can be installed within hours of delivery. It is simple to set up and can use the Novell SUSE Linux 64-bit operating system or Windows.

The Teradata 2500

The Teradata 2500 entry-level data warehouse is a fully integrated, scalable platform with dual-core Intel processors, enterprise-class storage, open Novell SUSE Linux 64-bit operating system, and the Teradata 12 database and utilities. All are pre-installed in a single ‘ready to run’ cabinet with energy-efficient green technologies.

The Teradata 5550

The new Teradata 5550 is configured and designed to meet today’s challenging active enterprise data warehouse requirements. It protects customers’ investments with a co-existence capability allowing customers to add new generation platforms to existing systems virtually eliminating the costly ‘floor sweep’ upgrades of older technology.

The Teradata 12 Database

Teradata 12, an enterprise data warehouse database, has been designed to meet the high performance business intelligence and analytical needs of complex reporting and ad-hoc analysis. A few of the innovations in Teradata 12 include consistent and predictable responses from advanced mixed workload management and continuous data loading as well as smarter query execution with the new Teradata Optimiser, which dynamically rewrites poorly written queries in real-time and helps queries run up to 30 percent faster. In addition, ‘intelligent scanning’ with multi-level partition indexing improves query response times.

All of these products are currently available. Teradata’s partners, including business intelligence, ETL, application providers, are certified with the new platforms.