Raise Your Enterprise Intelligence
Every business is unique. Each has its own business intelligence or analytical needs. Some are already taking advantage of an active enterprise data warehouse (EDW) environment to quickly move critical business insight to front-line decision makers. Some are consolidating various data marts into an integrated enterprise data warehouse, and others are deploying their first data warehouse or purpose-built appliance to meet specific needs.But every company, including yours, shares some common requirements. Every one needs new and better ways to increase enterprise intelligence. And every one must be able to seamlessly grow their data warehousing capabilities as their business and analytical requirements change.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 – from entry level to active enterprise level – to meet the business and technical needs of companies everywhere.
End-to-End Solutions and Support
Each Teradata® Purpose-Built Platform Family member runs 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 platform has the kind of built-in functionality that makes it easy to manage and 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.
Choose the Perfect Platform
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 from 5TB to 92PB of user data. The Teradata Active EDW provides enterprise concurrency for thousands of users, applications, and events. It also protects your investment with a proven, 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 Extreme Performance Appliance
The Teradata Extreme Performance Appliance, the first-ever purely solid state drive (SSD)-based data warehouse appliance, is targeted toward very high-performance workloads on high-value business data. Its scan speed and fast loads combined with low query latency makes it an ideal platform solution for real-time business environments where response to events must occur in seconds or even milliseconds. It sets a new standard for speed in data warehousing analytics to meet the rising demand for hyper-fast queries – speed that provides you and your business with breakthrough performance and insight at the speed of thought. The result? You can get immediate answers to run your business more efficiently – and profitably – than ever.The technical capabilities of the Extreme Performance Appliance include hot data focused performance since the high transfer rate and low latency of the SSD drives makes them a perfect medium for storing data that are used by active workloads with stringent response time limits or fast table scan needs. The SSD drives are directly accessed by the Teradata node thereby eliminating the added delays of a disk array that other solutions require. Also, the capabilities of the SSD enable fast and consistent query response times that support very stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to be met as required in operational workload environments.Significant savings in system power consumption and floor space are enabled by the dramatic reduction in storage cabinets provided by SSD technology that balances full Teradata node performance with far fewer storage elements than with hard disk drives.
Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance
The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance is ideal for companies that are new to data warehousing or that 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 in 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 six-core Intel® Xeon® 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 315TB. This powerful platform family 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 – up to 186PB – to gain deep strategic intelligence from those data. Based on the field proven Teradata platform family technologies, it enables the very same scalability 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 12TB – at an attractive entry price. The Teradata Data Mart was developed to run a single application or be used as a cyclical data mart or analytical sandbox. It can also 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 uses the Novell SUSE Linux 64-bit 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.
Make the Most of Your Resources
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 your short- and long-term data integration requirements.
Why Teradata?
Why choose Teradata for your data warehousing needs? Because Teradata, the world’s largest company solely focused on enterprise data warehousing and analytic solutions, provides powerful solutions for companies of all sizes. Through innovation, consulting services, technology, and industry-specific applications, our customers are outpacing their competition with enterprise agility.
Teradata Goes Green
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 Teradata platforms reside.
For More Information
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.