Mar 6, 2017 | SAN DIEGO

New packaged service expands hybrid cloud choices, giving companies extra alternative, higher dexterity, and an elevated give attention to making use of their analytic insights

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), a number one analytics options firm, as we speak introduced Teradata IntelliCloud™, its subsequent era safe managed cloud providing that gives information and analytic software program as a service (SaaS). It’s obtainable with new deployment decisions together with Teradata IntelliFlex™, the corporate’s flagship enterprise information warehouse platform that Teradata will deploy and handle in its personal information facilities, and international public cloud infrastructure from Amazon Internet Providers (AWS) and later, from Microsoft Azure. By leveraging the identical software program, coaching, instruments and ecosystem purposes during which Teradata prospects have already invested for his or her on-premises techniques, IntelliCloud ensures 100% software program consistency whereas growing enterprise agility and boosting give attention to data-driven analytic insights which have significant enterprise outcomes.

“Demand for cloud providers will increase every day. Actually, by 2020, 90 % of our prospects count on to have a hybrid cloud atmosphere – and greater than 85 % count on to purchase ‘as a service’ for information warehousing,” stated Oliver Ratzesberger, government vp and chief product officer for Teradata.

In keeping with Gartner, an increasing number of purchasers are demanding that service choices help hybrid situations that incorporate conventional applied sciences in addition to new cloud applied sciences, and finally set up a hybrid IT atmosphere. IntelliCloud was designed to help any such fashionable hybrid method with complete subscription providers aligned to buyer priorities.

“Teradata is the one firm to handle these wants with easy, packaged options that mix main information and analytic software program as a service with unprecedented deployment alternative and suppleness,” stated Ratzesberger. “In the end, IntelliCloud frees our prospects to give attention to how analytic perception can transfer the needle for his or her firm. We imagine that is a part of why Teradata not too long ago achieved the best place for its completeness of imaginative and prescient in Gartner’s Information Administration Options for Analytics Magic Quadrant.”

Supplied on a subscription foundation with month-to-month, annual and 3-year choices, IntelliCloud choices allow prospects to give attention to analytic perception and never fear about establishing or operating the underlying software program or infrastructure. Providers are designed to be easy and full; preliminary capabilities embody:

• Alternative of Teradata Database, Teradata Aster® Analytics, or Hadoop® software program from Cloudera or Hortonworks; 
• Bundled infrastructure providers together with platform deployment and administration, onboarding and provisioning help, system monitoring and upkeep, patches and software program upgrades, encryption of knowledge in movement and at relaxation, enterprise-class safety, and premier cloud help;
• Deployment choices spanning IntelliFlex and Teradata home equipment in Teradata information facilities plus AWS public cloud infrastructure – to be adopted later this 12 months by Microsoft Azure and ultimately on-premises; 
• Service availability of 99.9% for infrastructure managed in Teradata information facilities; and
• Analytic ecosystem purposes together with Teradata QueryGrid™, Teradata AppCenter, Demand Chain Administration, Trade Information Fashions, and extra.

Prospects will management their IntelliCloud accounts with an easy-to-use, web-based administration console for monitoring system utilization, scheduling back-ups, setting or modifying safety parameters, spinning up extra cloud sources, and extra.

Teradata has invested in rigorous third get together audits of its managed cloud choices so as to exhibit compliance with safety laws and trade greatest practices comparable to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 and most not too long ago SOC 1, PCI and HIPAA. Particulars about IntelliCloud safety and the latest compliance audits can be found right here.

Teradata IntelliCloud helps the identical enterprise use circumstances and workloads which can be obtainable with Teradata on-premises techniques, although with the benefits of subscription pricing in a software-as-a-service mannequin. Frequent use circumstances for firms operating their analytic ecosystem totally in IntelliCloud are manufacturing, check and growth, and high quality assurance. Hybrid cloud use circumstances for IntelliCloud prospects additionally using a Teradata on-premises system embody cloud catastrophe restoration, cloud bursting, and cloud information marts and information labs.

Teradata IntelliCloud prospects entry the service by means of a safe community connection, both internet-based or devoted. IntelliCloud providers will probably be obtainable throughout Q1 2017 initially from choose U.S.-based AWS areas in addition to on IntelliFlex and different platforms in U.S. Teradata information facilities. Deployment choices will proceed to increase in future quarters to incorporate worldwide public cloud areas from AWS and Azure, Teradata international information facilities, and ultimately on-premises deployments.

To study extra, please:

• Go to IntelliCloud on Teradata.com
• Perceive the benefits of IntelliFlex
• Discuss with firm representatives at Teradata’s Gartner Information & Analytics Summit Sales space (#313), March 6 – 9, 2017 in Grapevine, Texas

Related Information Hyperlinks

¹“Construct and Market Cloud-Primarily based Choices Primer for 2017” revealed Jan 24, 2017 by analysts Ed Anderson, Gregor Petri