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Teradata Puts New Cloud Architecture to the 1,000-Node Test

Teradata says the recent 1,000-node test that it ran on AWS not only shows the scale that its new cloud architecture can achieve, but also demonstrates the analytic flexibility required by its new target market, the Glob Read more…

Teradata Rides Cloud Wave to Two-Year High

Teradata’s market capitalization has grown about $2 billion during the past two trading sessions and is trading near a two-year high thanks to better-than-expected financial results announced Thursday afternoon. The Sa Read more…

He Couldn’t Beat Teradata. Now He’s Its CEO

When Steve McMillan worked in IBM Global Services, he oversaw the outsourcing of nearly every major piece of a large global financial services firm’s IT stack with Big Blue products. But there was one component that he Read more…

MLB Hits a Home Run with BigQuery Migration

The Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. may be delighting baseball fans with his energetic style of play during this COVID-shortened season. But there's plenty of excitement in the back office too, now that Major League Baseball Read more…

Teradata Turns 40, Takes Off Gloves, Readies for a Fight

The past, present, and future of Teradata collided yesterday at the company's headquarters in San Diego, California, where 1,500 employees and guests – including four of the company's original founders -- gathered to c Read more…

Deep Learning Taking Over HPC, But It’s Good for Business Too

Be prepared for a heavy dose of deep learning if you're on the floor of the Supercomputing 2018 show this week in Dallas, Texas, where the scientific community will demonstrate how neural network-powered AI applications Read more…

Inside Teradata’s Audacious Plan to Consolidate Analytics

Teradata, which told us last week to "stop buying analytics," used its annual user conference this week to elaborate on that curious statement and explain its radical plan to dramatically simplify its customers' analytic Read more…

New Teradata Focuses on Answers, Not Analytics

Teradata shook up its 39-year-old business this week with a new logo, a new global headquarters, a new suite of software, and a promise to deliver "answers" to customers, not more analytics. Analytics, it seems, is no Read more…

Okera Emerges from Stealth with Big Data Fabric

While data platforms like Hadoop and object stores like S3 have become popular places for organizations to stash massive amounts of data, the platforms haven't solved companies' data management challenges. In fact, they' Read more…

Building Presto Business No Magic Trick for Starburst

When it comes to next-gen SQL query engines, there's no shortage of players jockeying for a starting role on big Hadoop clusters and in the cloud. While the Hives, Impalas, Drills, and Spark SQLs of the world have loyal Read more…

AI Spending Set to Skyrocket, So What’s the Holdup?

If your business is investing in artificial intelligence (AI), congratulations -- it shows understanding of the potential risks and rewards associated with the emergence of this powerful new technology. While billions of Read more…

Teradata Climbs Up the Stack with ‘Analytics Platform’ Strategy

Teradata is extending the types of data, algorithms, and frameworks it can store and run in its flagship MPP database as part of the new Teradata Analytics Platform unveiled at its annual user conference today. Shipping Read more…

MariaDB Takes On Teradata, Vertica with Column Store

Look out, Teradata and HPE Vertica: There's a new MPP player in town. MariaDB today announced that it's added a column store to its popular relational database, thereby enabling it to efficiently run a whole new class of Read more…

Why Analytics Are Now Assumed to Run in the Cloud

Not long ago, companies considered big data analytics such a strategic advantage that they wouldn’t dream of letting it outside their firewall. That hesitation has almost completely melted away to the point where spend Read more…

IoT May Fail Without the Design of Things

Nearly 20 years ago, I recall streaming data off of oil and gas wells in order to measure capacity, reserves, and shrink. For all intents and purposes, data was used used to manually repair a well by humans. What we call Read more…

The Art of Analytics, Or What the Green-Haired People Can Teach Us

It's been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But in this big data age, perhaps we should say that a picture is worth 1,000 terabytes. This week Teradata showcased some of the ways that the creatives among us, Read more…

Hadoop Grabs the Spotlight at Teradata User Confab

Teradata and its customer are embracing Hadoop, the open source platform that's helping to redefine the field of big data analytics. But the tension between the analytic old guard and the big data upstart were palpable a Read more…

AWS Cloud Pact Shows How Far Teradata Has Come

Next year, Teradata will offer its eponymous database as a service on the Amazon Web Services cloud. It will be the first foray onto a public cloud for Teradata, which has come a long way from its proprietary hardware ro Read more…

Teradata Readies Links to Push Presto to Enterprises

Teradata Corp. said this week it would accelerate the open-source rollout of Presto, the SQL-on-Hadoop framework, by offering connectivity drivers for free. Teradata (TDC) said Monday (Sept. 28) it would provide at no Read more…

Where’s the ROI in Big Data?

What is the return on investment (ROI) for big data analytics initiatives? The question may seem simple, but in fact it's devilishly difficult to answer. Nevertheless, Teradata recently set out to answer that question, a Read more…

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