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Table of Contents Introduction ........................................................................ 2 Information is of Major Importance ................................... 3 The Enterprise Data Warehouse Approach ........................ 3 Mid-market Data Warehousing and BI ............................... 4 Criteria for an EDW Platform Selection .............................. 4 Teradata Innovations for Performance and Availability .... 5 The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance .......................... 5 The Teradata Data Mart Appliance ..................................... 6 The Teradata Extreme Data Appliance ............................... 6 Scaling to the Teradata Active EDW ................................... 6 Conclusion ........................................................................... 6 About the Author ................................................................ 7
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For purposes of this paper, mid-size companies will be defined as companies with $1B to $50B in annual revenue.
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Complicating matters, in selecting the platform to support their data, companies are now faced with an exponentially higher number of variations and distinct departures from the traditional online transactional processing (OLTP) DBMS than ever before. In 2008, in concert with this increase in information management needs, Teradata Corporation a successful data warehouse provider for the one-terabyte+ market for nearly 30 years began making its technology affordable to the mid-market customer. This move is ushering in a new era of scalability and performance in that segment, as the #1 platform provider is poised to provide its leadership and influence for companies off, as well as on, the Fortune charts.
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Robust in Database Management Systems Features and Functions Make sure there are DBA productivity tools, monitoring features, parallel utilities, robust query optimizer, locking schemes, security methodology, intra-query parallel implementation for all possible access paths, chargeback and accounting features, and remote maintenance capabilities. There are few vendors who understand what it means to build mission-critical, well-performing data platforms that meet all of the above criteria. Of course, the vendor itself should be a major consideration, especially in these days of consolidation. When making this all-important decision, consider a vendors financial stability, the importance of data management to their overall business strategy, and their continued research and development in these areas towards a well-developed and relevant vision.
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nodes and grow, node-by-node if necessary, up to 46 nodes. The nodes can be provided with Capacity on Demand as well, which means the capacity can be configured into the system unlicensed until it is needed. This makes adding the capacity simple.
CONCLUSION
From straightforward mid-market data warehouse requirements to the global enterprise and beyond, Teradatas platforms are built on a foundation that has served the largest and most complex environments in the world for nearly 30 years. By meeting the needs of the midmarket with the proven appliance model, as well as with a flexible combination in nodes, maximum data size, storage and cabinet configurations, and high availability features, Teradata is showing its leadership in the midmarket, as well as in the larger-company arena. Teradata solutions allow you to start small, think big, and scale fast in terms of an EDW approach to data management and, if required, migrate to an Active EDW platform. The Teradata Data Mart Appliance is the robust selection for the mid-market data warehouse or data store. The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance takes the data mart appliance benefits to another level, and the Teradata Extreme Data Appliance has the upper end of data size covered for any enterprise. Whatever your information needs, Teradatas principles of scalability, power, manageability, extensibility, interoperability, manageable long-term TCO, flexibility, and robust features and functions support the possibilities.
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Numbers do not assume compression, which should allow for 30% more user storage on average. Data Mart (vs. Warehouse) is a product label only and is meant to address scale of the project and not the polar opposite of a Data Warehouse However, as noted, once the limits are approached, porting to the Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse is an attractive option.
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