Teradata unveils new analytical platforms

BANGALORE, INDIA: Teradata Corporation, provider of active enterprise data warehousing, today introduced a new family of platforms that addresses many customer needs, from entry-level to active enterprise-level, all with the proven power of the Teradata 12.0 database engine.  The family will extend the reach so that customers can leverage the power of Teradata within their enterprises in meeting their business and technical needs.  

The new platform family includes:

1) Teradata 550 SMP (symmetric multiprocessing), with a price of $67,000(1) per terabyte, a departmental data warehouse.

2) Teradata 2500, priced at $125,000(1) per terabyte, an entry-level data warehouse for companies that are just starting out or for those with other analytical platform requirements in their enterprises. 

3) Teradata 5550, an active data warehouse-class platform, starts at $200,000(1) per terabytedepending on the performance and availability needs of the customer.  The Teradata 5550 and Teradata 12 provide up to two times the system performance over their respective predecessors.

"Teradata has rewritten the rules in the industry with the expansion of the Teradata platform family," said Richard Winter, president of WinterCorp. "Until now, at the low end of the data warehouse price range, you could only get a data warehouse appliance able to deal with a limited level of database and query complexity.  Now, at $67,000 per terabyte for the Teradata 550 SMP, and $125,000 per terabyte for the Teradata 2500 entry level data warehouse, you can get the Teradata query engine that has been supporting the largest and most complex data warehouses in production anywhere. 

So Teradata now offers the Teradata 5550 for active data warehouses and the Teradata 2500 for data warehouse appliances - with application and database portability between them.  That's a great combination, which only builds momentum for the newly independent Teradata Corporation."

"The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) is the best architecture for integrated, cross-functional data to support both strategic and operational intelligence," said Darryl McDonald, chief marketing officer of Teradata. 

"Enterprise data warehousing drives the highest business value with the lowest overall total cost of ownership.  Virtually without exception, every customer we talk to is implementing or has plans to implement an EDW."  In addition, many companies today have legacy and analytical applications on multiple hardware platforms and database combinations for various reasons. 

These systems are used to meet special business unit, departmental, or geographical requirements, as well as to address compliance and privacy concerns.  Special-purpose applications such as fraud detection and prevention, customer segmentation, human resources, and forecasting are also sometimes implemented on separate analytical systems.  These applications are driving significant investment in business intelligence and analytical systems outside the core EDW, and lead to complex and costly architectures.