Cloud based Data Warehouse to build enterprise business Intelligence Highway

Recently, the world-renowned 12th annual Teradata Data Warehouse and Enterprise Analysis Summit held in Suzhou, chapter of "The ultimate interpretation of the value of data" as the theme, in-depth discussion of how enterprises to fully utilize the latest data warehouse and enterprise analysis technology, with the help of data sources to provide insight to quickly formulate the best business decisions, grasp the business opportunities.

At the conference, Teradata dynamic Enterprise Data Warehouse platform 6690 (Active EDW 6690) platform began to supply, providing the latest generation of hybrid storage, further enhance the capacity of the data warehouse, to help companies make the best decisions.

Using intelligent storage Management software--teradata Virtual storage™, Teradata is the first supplier to provide customers with solid-state hard drive (SSD) and HDD (HDD) optimization applications. With the flexibility of configuration and the balance of SSD and HDD, a platform based on a new hybrid storage can meet the broader analysis needs of customers. Teradata Dynamic Enterprise-class data warehouses (Active EDW) support robust strategic intelligence to help organizations develop long-term plans and reports, as well as provide real-time operational intelligence for "frontline" employees.

"The current enterprise needs to analyze the solution in real time and provide the correct answer at the right moment, so speed is critical," said Scott Gnau, president of Teradata Laboratories. Teradata Active EDW provides the best data warehouse performance using multilevel storage technologies, including primary storage and high-speed, highly processed storage drives. Teradata customers are clearly aware of the value of hybrid storage, which has been chosen by many industry-leading companies at an unprecedented rate. ”

Hybrid storage brings benefits to customers in many different industries:
• A high value product manufacturer uses the Teradata Active EDW Hybrid storage platform to quickly process data from multiple sensors in a production line. Manufacturers are able to quickly collect and analyze real-time sensor data obtained from manufacturing machinery and make immediate adjustments to significantly increase production capacity. By rapidly responding to optimize the overall production process, increasing production by 1% means saving millions of of dollars.
• Large wireless telephone service providers want to speed up customer intelligence and support service agents in making decisions. Leveraging Teradata Active EDW based on hybrid storage, agents are fully aware of customer information by analyzing hot data from current customer interactions and cold data for long-term customer history, thereby reducing network access, reducing costs, and increasing revenue
"Our research shows that businesses need to visit large databases frequently, and most companies analyze data many times a day," says David Menninger, vice president and research director of Ventana. There are differences in performance and cost between solid-state and traditional hard drives, and hybrid storage systems can identify data usage types, optimize data trade-offs, and provide solid performance advantages for most operations while reducing costs. ”

The feature-enhanced Teradata Active EDW 6690 stands out as the following key advantages.

Breakthrough Hybrid Storage Technology

"Teradata Company is the only one on the platform to use SSD, HDD two kinds of equipment, and provide integrated self-management storage of data warehouse vendors." Fully automated operations visually present storage management to database administrators and users.

Teradata is the first to provide database-aware storage management capabilities and--teradata virtual storage, the most frequently used "hot" data can be automatically placed in fast-moving SSD storage, with the least-used "cold" data in a slower, less costly HDD storage area. Data storage is dynamic and is based on usage patterns.

Teradata Virtual storage automatically migrates data based on a natural change in temperature over time, ensuring that the data is in the optimal storage location. Therefore, with the speed of SSD accelerated the analysis of thermal data, at the same time, due to reduce the current HDD storage load, cold data analysis speed can be accelerated.

Validated analysis of the main

Teradata Active EDW is the main analysis of the world's leading companies, it is the basis of enterprise-level division. The system can manage the most difficult and demanding real-time workloads. This data warehouse can handle large and rapidly migrating data while hosting hundreds of to thousands of users and enterprise applications running concurrently. In addition, the system easily manages mixed workloads that include improvisation, tactical, and basic reporting queries.

For example, leading electronic retailers use a new Teradata platform to store relatively small amounts of thermal data on SSDs at lower cost, meet the high performance analysis requirements needed to create dynamic customized sales proposals for customers, and store a larger number of infrequently used history data on HDD. New platforms enhance flexibility to help customers choose the optimal configuration that meets their needs.

Teradata Active EDW can handle 6 tb--60 PB of user data to meet a variety of storage space requirements. Teradata Company continues to provide optimized and integrated hardware and software packages based on the industry's best technology. Technologies include powerful Intel Xeon multi-core processors, industry-recognized robust NETAPP E-series storage systems, and space-saving new 2½-inch HDD. At the same time, SanDisk provides industry-leading GB capacity, 2½-inch Enterprise-class SSD.

Consolidate data Warehouse support capabilities

Teradata Active EDW provides an environment that supports the integration analysis, with unimaginable fast parallel processing capabilities and scalability for massive amounts of data. Teradata provides a comprehensive set of integrated analysis applications that leverages the processing speed of the database engine and the cost-effective performance of the hybrid storage platform. The analysis includes data discovery, geo-spatial, timing and predictability, and emerging open source technologies such as the "R" language. In addition, Teradata is also working with industry-leading data mining partners to provide analytics and business intelligence through highly optimized database consolidation.

Powerful analytical ecosystem

The major companies are using the Teradata platform to build a complete analysis of the ecosystem, with one or more specific uses of Teradata dedicated platform to enhance Teradata Active EDW, to create a very efficient and powerful analytical ecosystem, in price, performance, Optimization of value and system availability.

Unmatched efficiency

Teradata Company has set a green standard in data warehousing, compared to six years ago, the same performance system of energy and space utilization increased by 10 times times. The enhanced Teradata Active EDW platform enables the efficiency of the data center, as mixed storage can achieve stronger performance with less storage space. High-density innovative designs for cabinets, power supplies and heat dissipation have brought many benefits to customers. In addition, in order to achieve optimal utilization and green performance, Teradata Company will all the system resources virtualization. It is widely accepted that the cost of power, heat and space in the data center will soon exceed the cost of data center equipment, so the sustainability advantage of the Teradata system has become a crucial highlight of the information technology industry.

Maximize investment protection

The architecture of the Teradata platform is unusual in the industry, enabling multiple generations of Teradata Active EDW nodes to coexist within the same system, each generation achieving optimal performance. Teradata customers can continue to develop and extend their current systems many years later, unlike all other data warehouse vendors, who require replacement of new systems and hardware.

The versatility of a cloud based data Warehouse

The Teradata Active EDW platform supports a private cloud environment with virtualized resources, scalability, flexibility, self-service business intelligence, and continuous performance. As a result, the platform provides a robust, flexible, high-performance, and cloud-based Data Warehouse environment that adapts to rapidly changing business needs. Large companies can integrate many disparate data marts and "sandbox" into a true consolidated data warehouse efficiently and cost-effectively through private cloud data warehouses.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)