Analytics solutions company Teradata has upped its focus in delivering business solutions, as opposed to pure technology-led solutions to its clients. In the process, Teradata has bolstered its offer with newer product offers and partnerships that will allow it to bring faster results for companies eyeing scale.
The company has released Teradata Everywhere, an industry first that brings the massively parallel processing (MPP) analytic database to multiple public clouds, managed cloud, and on-premises environments including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Teradata Managed Cloud, VMware virtualisation software, and the Teradata IntelliFlex platform.
"As companies move toward hybrid cloud architectures, Teradata is leading the industry by offering customers choice and ensuring database compatibility across deployment modes. Teradata Everywhere delivers the flexibility to implement a hybrid architecture with a common database that enables shifting of workloads between environments as business needs evolve, supporting a company's changing deployment strategy and economic needs. Having such flexibility is going to important and significant especially for Indian organizations," said Sunil Jose, Managing Director, Teradata India
"It's all about customer choice without sacrifice. Companies need their data and analytic environment to be agile, multi-faceted, and flexible. Teradata Everywhere means that the exact same Teradata Database can be deployed on-premises and in the cloud. Regardless of the combination, Teradata is leading the industry in delivering this capability. Companies can concentrate their energy on running analytics to improve their business rather than engineering compatibility between their environments," added Oliver Ratzesberger, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Teradata.
In a proposition that builds on borderless analytics, Teradata is also breaking down the borders of yesterday's single system, single technology analytics and empowering companies to analyse data wherever and whenever they want, and across the data and platforms they need. Teradata 'Borderless Analytics' capability is made possible by the latest versions of Teradata QueryGrid software for analytics across heterogeneous, multi-system data stores, and Teradata Unity software for automated and seamless orchestration of a Teradata multi-system environment.
Enterprises are rapidly establishing a hybrid analytical ecosystem that combines on-premises appliances, on-premises virtualisation technology, managed clouds and public clouds. Teradata Borderless Analytics aims to give enterprises the ability to manage multi-system analytic environments and shift workloads to optimise resource utilisation, while ensuring a seamless and transparent business user experience. It also enables cross-technology analytics, giving users access to heterogeneous analytic processing engines and data stores. For some companies, this will mean expanding from on-premises systems to cloud, while for others it will mean augmenting cloud with on-premises systems.
"Agility is a critical business priority, but complexity created by today's hybrid environments can slow everything to a crawl. Borderless Analytics is about infrastructure agility and unlocking new use cases. We want to empower business users to continue driving valuable business insights using their existing tools to leverage the data they need, no matter where it lives. We want data scientists and 'power users' to have increased control of how and where they run their advanced analytics and predictive algorithms. And, we want DBAs and system administrators to manage their multiple systems as one," remarked Mr Ratzesberger.
Teradata's clients are looking at the new opportunities with interest. "We welcome the introduction of Teradata Borderless Analytics, as we believe the prospect of running analytics across multiple data stores and analytic engines for more holistic visibility are a competitive requirement as well as an important business advantage. Our Teradata environment powers data management and we are always looking for ways to advance our capabilities. As one of the most analytics-intensive organisations in the world, the borderless approach is in synch with our business direction," Sendil Thangavelu, Data & Analytics Leader at Flex.
