Teradata Releases New Data Warehouse Appliance

Teradata (News - Alert) Corp., a company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, has introduced its newest platform family member, the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance 2550.

 

The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance 2550 provides a simple platform for entry-level data warehousing and data marts, and it’s purpose-built and optimized for fast scans.

 

The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance is a fully integrated platform with quad-core Intel processors, industry standard enterprise-class storage, open Novell (News - Alert) SUSE Linux 64-bit operating system, and the Teradata 12 database and utilities - all pre-installed in a single “ready-to-run” cabinet.

 

“Teradata has now introduced its second generation data warehouse appliance for entry-level or departmental business intelligence and complex analytics,” said Darryl McDonald, chief marketing officer at Teradata.

 

McDonald said that it offers customers tremendous performance improvement, a 50-percent reduction of the data center footprint, higher system availability, mainframe connectivity, integrated application server and enhanced system and workload management over the previous Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance 2500.

 

“The query scan rates of the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance are up to 150 percent faster than other vendors’ appliances. Lightning speed scan rates enable Teradata customers to get answers to their business questions at unprecedented speed,” said Scott Gnau, chief development officer at Teradata.

 

He also said that when the patented “intelligent scanning” innovation of the Teradata 12 database is exploited by the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance, query performance dramatically increases up to 10 times for selected queries.

 

The Teradata 12 software foundation provides full feature and advanced functionality for traditional analytic needs while also providing sophisticated extensions for new emerging requirements like geospatial, in-database mining, and data encryption.

 

The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance joins the existing Teradata platform family, the Teradata Data Mart Appliance 550 and the Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse 5550.

 

“With the introduction of a family of data warehouse appliances, Teradata has opened the window in a stuffy room to let fresh air blow in. At least, that is the way that many Teradata customers are reacting to this announcement,” said Dr. Richard Hackathorn, president at Bolder Technology.

 

He believes that the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance caps the high-end of their appliance family, which for savvy IT executives will provide a full range of architectural alternatives for their enterprise data warehousing needs from Teradata.