Teradata intros data warehouse appliance

Teradata Corporation announced the immediate availability of the Teradata
Data Warehouse Appliance 2580, which delivers up to two-times the performance of
the previous version. "We decided to move our data warehouse environment to the
Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance, as it was the only technology that allowed us
to scale up effortlessly and efficiently. We have rapidly expanded the number of
banking customers, which has resulted in the growth of customer transactions as
well as the number of internal data warehouse users. Our data warehouse users
are successfully running more analysis and reports everyday," said Henryk
Baniowski, CIO, Alior Bank.

The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance leverages energy-efficient processors,
which are housed in a patented cabinet designed to reduce heat output. This
energy-efficient architecture reduces datacenter cooling costs. In addition, the
Teradata Platform Family offers an improvement in the datacenter floor space
needed for the same processing capability reducing overall datacenter costs.

In mid-2010, Teradata will be adding a new Teradata Extreme Performance
Appliance; the industry's first all solid-state drive appliance for
hyper-analytics, giving customers more performance and price options. All of the
Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family members provide capability. As customers
analyze their analytical needs in developing their data warehouse architecture,
Teradata can truly be a trusted advisor that presents customers with a range of
architectural options for best price and performance optimization, instead of a
single product with a single price from other vendors.