BANGALORE, INDIA: Teradata Corporation, a data warehousing and enterprise analytics firm, announced the launch of Teradata Virtual Storage, a software that virtualizes data storage.

Developed in the Teradata Labs, the virtualization of data storage allows customers to add larger disk drives to existing Teradata system configurations without the additional cost of adding processing units or nodes and database software.

Teradata Virtual Storage enables to add storage capacity at very low cost and to maximize performance to meet the enterprise intelligence demands of business users.
 
Scott Gnau, head, development, Teradata Corporation, said: "Teradata reduces the cost of adding additional storage by as much as 10 times, making it cost effective to meet the ever-increasing demands to store and analyze more data. Unlike other competitors' capabilities, Teradata Virtual Storage allows system performance to remain high and predictable even as data capacity increases."
 
Teradata Virtual Storage, enabled by Teradata 13 Database, can automatically manage data placement from a data "temperature" perspective. This built-in intelligence is able to automatically place the most frequently used or "hot" data on the fastest storage units and the least used or "cold" data on the slowest storage units without user or administrator intervention. The proper placement of data supports high-performance access to hot data in support of real time decision making, and provides an automated lifecycle management process as data age or "cool" and migrate to less expensive drives.