The Teradata 2500 entry-level data warehouse is a cost-effective, fully integrated, scalable platform with dual-core Intel processors, industry standard enterprise-class storage, open Novell SUSE Linux 64-bit operating system, and the Teradata 12 database and utilities. All are pre-installed in a single "ready to run" cabinet with energy-efficient green technologies. The Teradata 2500 delivers more complex queries, more concurrent users, and better workload management than the appliance vendors in the market today for superior price/performance. The Teradata 2500 can also complement a robust enterprise data warehouse environment where customers may have other analytical needs.
"Many times, customers will build a new application outside the EDW for various business reasons such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM)," said Randy Lea, vice president, Teradata products and services. "For example, a customer could implement CRM software as a stand-alone solution on the Teradata 2500 and then, unlike appliances offered by other companies, the entire solution can be easily migrated into the EDW, including extract, transform and load (ETL) software, data model and the application code. The company can then leverage the integrated sales, inventory and customer data of the EDW, providing significantly enhanced business value and a true 360-degree view of the customer."
As leading customers grow, so do their requirements. EDW success drives more concurrent queries, higher availability, increased performance, and enhanced workload management capabilities to support the complex environments of continuous and batch loads, operational queries, simple reporting and complex analytics, all on the same platform, supporting thousands of users. The new Teradata 5550 is configured and designed to meet these challenging active enterprise data warehouse requirements. It protects customers' investments with a proven and unique co-existence capability allowing customers to add new generation platforms to existing systems virtually eliminating the costly "floor sweep" upgrades of older technology.