Teradata Launches First Configurable Appliance For Big Data

Teradata has released the latest version of its Appliance for Hadoop, version 5. Version 5 is unique as it is the industry’s first configurable platform for Hadoop. On top of that it also provides customers with the choice of Hadoop from either Hortonworks (HDP 2.3) or Cloudera (Cloudera Enterprise 5.4). The latest version of Teradata Appliance for Hadoop will give customers the flexibility to accelerate time-to-value and reduce Hadoop cost of ownership.

Teradata has released the latest version of its Appliance for Hadoop, version 5. Version 5 is unique as it is the industry’s first configurable platform for Hadoop. On top of that it also provides customers with the choice of Hadoop from either Hortonworks (HDP 2.3) or Cloudera (Cloudera Enterprise 5.4). The latest version of Teradata Appliance for Hadoop will give customers the flexibility to accelerate time-to-value and reduce Hadoop cost of ownership.

Teradata Appliance for Hadoop version 5 aims to resolve some of the challenges companies have in implementing Hadoop. Customers now have a choice of deployment from either Cloudera or Hortonworks. It is the industry’s first configurable appliance for Hadoop. This allows customers to meet specific needs for capacity and performance. Users will be able to speed Hadoop deployments while reducing total cost of ownership while facilitating integration with the Teradata Unified Data Architecture.

Main features:

• Performance – The Appliance can be optimized to run streaming applications like Spark, Storm, and SQL-Hadoop engines such as Presto and Impala. It is optimized for intensive computational workloads with more CPU and memory, and smaller storage disks. The Appliance leverages Intel Core Processor (Haswell) technology that delivers significant performance and robust analytics.
• Capacity – If a customer needs to store greater quantities of infrequently used data with acceptable levels of performance, then the Teradata Appliance for Hadoop can be configured with the lowest cost storage, adequate memory, and fewer CPUs. The Teradata Appliance for Hadoop scales to meet customers’ growth needs.
• Balance – If a balance of performance and data capacity is required for extract, transform and load (ETL) jobs and analytic workloads, then the Teradata Appliance for Hadoop can be configured with appropriate CPU, memory, and storage disks.

In addition, the Teradata Appliance for Hadoop is integrated within the Teradata UDA with the high-speed InfiniBand interconnect to the Teradata data warehouse and the Teradata Aster platforms. This enables faster data movement when using Teradata QueryGrid to push down processing and consolidate analytic output in a single query.

The Teradata Appliance for Hadoop version 5 is delivered pre-packaged and is backed by recognized world-class Teradata technical support, available 24X7 globally.

Availability

Teradata Appliance for Hadoop version 5 is expected to be available at the end of the third quarter, 2015.

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