Teradata has announced an all-memory update to its flagship Teradata IntelliFlexplatform. The upgrades are empowered by a move to all solid state drives (SSD), which makes it possible to reduce required data center space while delivering a massive increase in processing power for mission-critical analytics at the speed-of-thought.
Teradata also announced the new, ready-to-run Teradata IntelliBaseplatform – revolutionary in its single cabinet support for multiple software technologies, re-deployable hardware, and low, commodity hardware price-point.
Both products are offered on-premises, with Teradata IntelliCloudavailability coming soon, and run the same Teradata database software to enable a high-performance hybrid cloud solution.
“Our customers are experiencing unprecedented growth in their advanced analytics needs and now require massive gains in their data warehouse compute power,” said Oliver Ratzesberger, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Teradata. “We specifically designed IntelliFlex to meet these demands inexhaustibly. By transitioning to all SSDs we now provide an all-memory appliance capable of delivering up to seven times the compute power per cabinet of our previous product – plus rapid performance elasticity that is simply unmatched in our market. We are providing our customers with more performance, more storage, and more memory in the same footprint, and at half the energy consumed per unit of performance delivered.”
Superior Teradata IntelliFlex Platform
Teradata IntelliFlex, launched in early 2016, delivered a fabric-based architecture that enables the independent scaling of processing power and storage to match changing workload requirements.
Despite providing orders of magnitude better performance than hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs have been cost prohibitive to include as standard equipment in a data warehouse appliance. However, SSD capacities have continued to increase while prices have declined. Teradata is the first to recognize and take advantage of this industry trend, making SSDs the preferred storage for enterprise-level analytics appliances.
Features of the new IntelliFlex cabinet (compared to the previous generation product) include:
- Massive, up to 7.5x increase in processing power for compute-intensive analytics using dual 18-core Intel Xeon processors
- Faster execution of data warehouse analytics with speeds up to 4.5x greater
- Lower data center costs by enabling up to 3.5x customer data space
- Reduced carbon footprint with up to 2x performance per kW of energy used
Versatile Teradata IntelliBase Platform
For entry-level data and analytic needs, Teradata created IntelliBase – a low cost solution capable of delivering a complete logical data warehouse in a solitary cabinet, with single vendor support. Enabling multiple technologies to run in the same IntelliBase cabinet makes this new platform extremely efficient and economical.
The IntelliBase enables companies to architect their analytic ecosystems to match their needs today, but also provides the versatility to repurpose hardware to meet tomorrow’s changing business requirements. For example, a compute node used for Hadoop can later be converted to run Teradata Database, providing ultimate flexibility and investment protection for customers despite IntelliBase being engineered as a low-cost, commodity alternative.
IntelliBase features:
- Multiple technologies packaged into a single, low-cost, data-center-friendly cabinet
- Complete, single-vendor support for Teradata Database, Aster Analytics, and Hadoop
- Support for Teradata ecosystem enabling applications: QueryGrid, Unity, Data Mover, Ecosystem Manager, Viewpoint, Listener, and more.
- Investment protection with hardware that can be redeployed between technologies with software re-imaging
Teradata IntelliBase and the new all-SSD IntelliFlex products will be available in Q2 2017. Both products will be available on Teradata IntelliCloud later this year.