Teradata Active Data Warehouses Provide Private Cloud Benefits

Teradata Universe EMEA -- Greater utilization of processing power has been a key driver and sought-afterwards benefit of corporate private cloud computing implementations - to centralize and share computing resources and increase utilization to 60 percent or higher. Today, only about 25 percent of the available processing power of virtualized servers is being utilized by many companies that adopt virtualization, a Gartner analyst recently told CIO magazine(1). Teradata today announced important new private cloud capabilities to help companies effectively realize much greater utilization.

Data warehouse private cloud

As a data warehouse private cloud, the Teradata ADW directly addresses a major pain point with CIOs by ensuring computing resources are optimized, and fully utilized - a significant economic advantage to any IT organization. By consolidating data warehouse servers onto a Teradata ADW Private Cloud, IT executives and their teams can be certain that their computing resources are fully utilized and producing ROI on a 7X24 basis.

Furthermore, by consolidating data marts onto a Teradata ADW Private Cloud, companies can integrate the data, which gives users a unified version of the most relevant data- more quickly and at less cost - for better business intelligence across disciplines and processes.

Business users can as well benefit from better control of their computing resources with the self-service capabilities of a Teradata ADW Private Cloud. In less than five minutes, business users can easily meet the demand for analytics by creating a fully functioning data lab to provision and manage data required for their particular needs.

"Today's global business environment can be volatile and consumer demands can shift rapidly. Because of this unpredictability, it is at times difficult for CIOs to adequately plan for data warehouse capacity needs," Gnau added. "Teradata can provide instant and elastic resources behind the scenes so businesses can scale up or down as business conditions fluctuate."

With the release of Elastic Performance on Demand for a Teradata ADW Private Cloud, users can seamlessly address sudden surges in business activity, driven by such events as the launch of major marketing campaigns, or unexpectedly high demands in fad-driven manufacturing orders, or seasonal demand swings including holiday promotions.

The combination of on-demand provisioning

"The combination of on-demand provisioning, an elastic model for adding and removing resources at any time, and pay-for-use pricing bring the key cost and agility benefits of cloud computing to the data warehouse," said Mark Madsen, president of Third Nature, an IT analyst firm. "The cloud is the future of IT infrastructure nevertheless public cloud offerings don't meet the performance and availability requirements of BI workloads today. For the nearly future we need private cloud offerings like this."

"Through our Teradata ADW Private Cloud, we are the only data warehousing company providing CIOs a huge return on investment with fully utilized computing resources, during delivering to business users the flexibility of self-service data warehouse resource provisioning -- and it's available to clients today," Gnau said.

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