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Better together
LSI Logic, NCR and its Teradata division work in tandem to meet customer storage needs with innovative solutions.
As history has shown, the most successful partnerships develop over time—enabling
the parties to grow, understand and anticipate the other's needs
and more importantly, their customers' demands. For the past 25
years, LSI Logic, NCR and its Teradata division have worked side-by-side
to meet their customers' storage requirements to design innovative
solutions. These solutions include the NCR Enterprise Storage system integrated
with the Teradata Database, which meets the scalability and performance
needs of the world's largest and data-driven companies.
This long-standing partnership and the successful results provides insight
into the creation of modular data storage subsystems and illustrates how
both companies changed the data warehousing industry, created the de facto
standard for modular storage systems and continue to spearhead the enablement
of data warehouses for today's largest companies.
Together, LSI and Teradata enable many Fortune 500 companies across all
industries, including the world's largest retailers, financial institutions,
airlines and telecommunications firms, to build large data warehouses
and collect massive amounts of information, providing unprecedented insight
into their businesses. These customers use sophisticated Teradata solutions,
powered by state-of-the-art LSI storage technology, to optimize performance
and analyze vast amounts of data to improve product offerings, manage
inventory and implement highly targeted marketing initiatives.
"LSI's deep storage technology expertise, combined with our
thorough understanding of the technical requirements associated with enterprise
data warehouse environments, led to this joint development of storage
systems uniquely tailored to meet the demanding workloads of the Teradata
Database," said Jim Dietz, marketing manager at Teradata.
Scalability and performance
Driven in part by Teradata's scalability requirements to move the
industry forward and get higher performance out of disk storage, LSI developed
modular storage systems that could easily scale capacity and performance
from entry-level data warehouses to the largest data warehouses in the
world. IT managers no longer had to invest in monolithic storage systems
with limited scalability and flexibility that would likely have to be
replaced as the company's needs changed.
The Teradata Database is designed to effortlessly handle the rapid growth
and dynamic changes that are inevitable as you increasingly leverage your
data warehouse investment. The inherent scalability of Teradata enables
customers to simply connect more hardware nodes as their requirements
grow. This extends to the NCR Enterprise Storage which utilizes LSI modular
storage components and is tightly integrated with NCR servers to seamlessly
scale as your Teradata Warehouse expands.
"The LSI and Teradata engineering teams have been working together
for many years to optimize our storage technology to meet customers'
scalability requirements," says Joel McGill, director NCR Strategic
Partnership, Engenio Storage Group, LSI Logic. "This collaboration
enables Teradata customers to buy the amount of storage they require to
meet their current data warehouse needs, and easily add more storage capacity
and performance, while protecting their previous storage investment. The
ability to linearly scale performance as you grow your data warehouse
capacity is a unique Teradata value proposition achieved in part through
our high-performance storage technology."
Understanding the Teradata Database
To better understand the benefits of a Teradata Database, it is necessary
to understand its components and how they work together to provide customers
with value, reliability and performance. Several aspects of the Teradata
Database, including "random and equal" data distribution and
parallel "shared nothing" architecture, result in a unique
I/O workload and data access patterns. Requests to and from the disk drives
are randomly addressed, minimizing the benefit of disk array cache memory.
To eliminate the need for customers to purchase cache memory that is not
utilized, LSI designed modular storage systems so they could be configured
with minimal cache memory.
The "shared nothing" massively parallel architecture is a
database architecture without a single point of contention. For maximum
parallelism, data is randomly and equally distributed across all of the
available storage devices in real time as data is loaded, appended or
changed. Teradata's equal data distribution and parallelism maximizes
performance, but stresses traditional data storage systems by maximizing
the number of physical disk drive media accesses. The engineering collaboration
between LSI and Teradata helped LSI develop modular disk arrays that uniquely
handle this demanding I/O workload.
When NCR first approached LSI to develop a way to get higher performance
out of disk storage, it ultimately wanted to develop a data storage system
that could scale to match the horsepower of rapidly evolving server node
architectures, thus providing the best price/performance platform available.
Balanced storage system and NCR Server node performance are accomplished
by configuring and tuning the storage system to fully utilize the performance
capabilities of each node generation. The LSI high-performance disk array
controllers enable the flexibility to achieve this balance affordably,
without over-configuring storage to match server node performance.
Future together
LSI Logic, NCR and its Teradata division will continue to work in tandem
to understand and anticipate changes in customer requirements and to design
innovative solutions to meet the needs of the world's largest companies.
Partners often talk about "win-win," but LSI and Teradata
see their partnership as a "win-win-win" situation. LSI and
Teradata win because, together, they are able to offer the best data warehousing
and modular storage solutions available. But more important to both companies
is that customers win because of the world-class technology that is completely
integrated, scalable and designed to deliver superior performance in the
most rigorous data warehousing environments. T
© Teradata Magazine-June 2006
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