Teradata, the connected multi-cloud data platform company, announced its continued innovation and commitment to the cloud with new capabilities for Vantage on Microsoft Azure.
Teradata Vantage is the leading enterprise multi-cloud data analytics software platform which enables deep analytics that drive meaningful, industry-specific business outcomes for customers. Delivered as-a-service, Vantage on Azure helps companies to start small and gradually scale compute and storage independently, and when needed. Pricing model flexibility allows customers to choose how they apply resources to different sized data workloads.
Long-time Teradata customer Intertoys, the largest retail toy store chain in the Netherlands, leverages first- and third-party data to help uncover insights into demand, trends, and seasonality. Intertoys opted for Microsoft Azure as their preferred cloud service provider and Teradata Vantage as their cloud data analytics platform.
Robin Tichler, IT Manager, Intertoys, B.V., said: “We did testing with multiple cloud vendors, but Teradata is the best-in-class when performing complex queries and handling data volume.”
“We can easily scale up and down. Teradata is also rated at the top by leading analyst firms in terms of scaling to handle large data volumes, query response times, concurrency, and query complexity.”
New features include the following:
Easier Modernisation of Cloud Data Analytics Infrastructure
- Procurement via Azure Marketplace private offers – convenient option enabling customers to draw down of 100% of total contract value from their Azure spending commitments
- Support for zero downtime compute scaling with Elastic Performance on Demand (EPOD)
- Ability to add in-database SAS user-defined functions (UDFs) for advanced analytics
- Refreshed Vantage user interface complete with Editor, JupyterHub, Path, Rules, and Workflow for AI/ML
- Natively read and write data to and from object storage including Azure Blob and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2
- Limited Availability: self-service snapshot-based backup and restore – reduces downtime from hours to seconds.
Enhanced Security
- Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) – additional security configuration option that enables customers to protect their data in the cloud
- Option to incorporate security partner software from Imperva and Protegrity, providing customers with industry-leading options for data encryption
- Private Link certification enables customers to operate Vantage, Viewpoint, and QueryGrid software in a secure network configuration not exposed to the public internet.
Innovative New Functionality
- Additional embedded analytic functions from the Vantage Analytics Library
- New deployments will provide 40% more computational performance than previous configurations, enabling customers to execute more intensive workloads
- System sizing up to 1.5X more, enabling customers to operate even larger enterprise data warehouse workloads in the cloud.
Expanded Reach
- New region and deployment option for Vantage on Azure (DIY): Azure China Marketplace.
Barry Russell, SVP Business Development and GM of Cloud at Teradata, said:
“Teradata is committed to providing the best enterprise data analytics in the cloud. That is why we continue to invest in our Vantage as-a-service offerings on Azure – so our customers across any industry vertical can use Vantage to enable rapid outcomes leveraging their favorite Azure capabilities.”
“We continue to prioritize cloud-first development across the entire company to ensure we are helping our customers seamlessly migrate and modernize their cloud data warehouses to meet their accelerated digital innovation goals.”
