Teradata Enterprise Analytics Cloud(TM) Extends Architectural Flexibility and Business Agility

Teradata Enterprise Analytics Cloud(TM) Extends Architectural Flexibility and
Business Agility
First public and private Cloud Computing offer for rapid analytics

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC), the
world's largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise
analytics, today announced that the Teradata Enterprise Analytics Cloud(TM)
provides Teradata customers architectural flexibility, which enables them to
meet their expanding analytic needs by leveraging cloud computing
technologies. Initial offerings include the Teradata Agile Analytics Cloud,
Teradata Express on Amazon EC2, and Teradata Express for VMware Player.

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For the business user, public and private clouds provide flexible, self
service for the rapid building of short term analytic data marts, allowing
users to pay only for the computing power actually used. More importantly,
these cloud solutions offer business users and developers another means of
improving decision making with agility and speed.

Teradata Agile Analytics Cloud
The Teradata Agile Analytics Cloud, Teradata's entry into private Cloud
Computing, is a unique set of products, capabilities and services designed to
enable agile analytics in a Teradata private cloud environment. This allows
for rapid development and sandbox-style analytics. Business users can create
data marts inside their Teradata system within minutes. This eliminates the
need to build separate, costly physical data marts, because the production
data can be accessed directly, without data movement or duplication. Built on
the proven Teradata Database and platforms, the Teradata Agile Analytics Cloud
combines advanced workload management, the new Teradata Elastic Mart Builder
tool, and a services methodology to enable business users to rapidly exploit
data marts inside their Teradata System. The Teradata Elastic Mart Builder is
a Teradata Viewpoint self-service portlet that makes it easy to create data
marts for application development. It is flexible and allows external data to
be combined with existing data facilitating the discovery of new insights. The
Teradata Elastic Mart Builder is being released as a free tool to be deployed
through Teradata Developer Exchange. Teradata Active System Management, the
company's flagship workload management product, is a key enabler because it
optimizes priorities between experimental analytics and production workloads.

The Teradata Agile Analytics Cloud allows the business user to rapidly analyze
data and respond to market opportunities with speed and confidence. This
solution helps chief information officers control data mart proliferation,
reduce costs for software licenses and servers, and lower training and labor
costs.

"Many IT organizations are under-resourced and under tremendous pressure to
cut costs, driving some business users to create their own 'shadow IT'
organizations to meet their needs," said Scott Gnau, chief developer officer,
Teradata Corporation. "These shadow IT groups create conflict between the
business users and IT groups. The Teradata Agile Analytics Cloud helps to
eliminate the conflicts and brings business and IT together, saving money and
enriching their analytical insights."

Teradata Express Cloud Offerings
The two new Teradata Express cloud offerings are built on Teradata Express,
which is a free, non-production version of Teradata Database software intended
for developers and evaluation scenarios. The cloud versions of Teradata
Express support up to one terabyte of data and are powered by Novell SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server 10.

Teradata Express on Amazon EC2
Teradata Express on Amazon EC2 is available on the flexible Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This prepackaged edition is a free developer
version of the Teradata Database for use in the scalable, robust Amazon EC2
environment. Customers can quickly launch Teradata Express on Amazon EC2 and
begin their collaborative work from any location in the world. Customers
benefit from the easy self-service, flexible configurations, and the cost
effective Amazon Web Services infrastructure, resulting in faster time to
value and the quicker completion of projects.

Teradata Express for VMware Player
Teradata Express for VMware Player delivers a fully configured Teradata
Database bundled for private cloud analytics. Once VMware software is
installed, the Teradata Database can be loaded in minutes, taking advantage of
the many features of VMware. For the Teradata Database, VMware is an
important stepping stone towards delivering internal private clouds for
developers and information technology operations managers. The value for
customers will be the easy creation of Teradata test and development
environments with a significant reduction in capital costs from server
consolidation.

According to Gnau, "Teradata is all about choice that no other vendor can
offer. Teradata's advocated architecture is an integrated data warehouse, but
we offer the flexibility for customers to leverage the power of Teradata in
any architecture they chose to meet their business need. Our entry into loud
Cloud Computing is one alternative and an extension to our Platform Family,
which positions 'Teradata for all your analytical needs.'"

Teradata is the only vendor to offer a broad family of platforms with price
and performance that spans the unique business and analytical data warehouse
needs of companies, making Teradata suitable to be everywhere in the
enterprise. The family is supported by the high performance and dependable
Teradata 13 Database, the most significant and technically advanced database
for analytics.

About Teradata
Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) is the world's largest company solely focused
on raising intelligence through data warehousing, data warehouse appliances,
consulting services and enterprise analytics. Teradata is in more than 60
countries and on the web at www.teradata.com

Teradata is a trademark or registered trademark of Teradata Corporation in the
United States and other countries.

SOURCE Teradata Corporation

Dan Conway, Teradata Corporation, +1-858-485-3029, dan.conway@teradata.com