Teradata Releases Big Analytics Appliance

Teradata, an analytics data solutions company, introduced the Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance, a unified big analytics appliance.

The Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance brings together open-source Apache Hadoop and Teradata Aster into a single, highly integrated, and optimized appliance. With the Teradata Aster patented SQL-MapReduce and Aster SQL-H, the Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance provides users with transparent access to Hadoop and provides unique business analytics to a broad set of knowledge workers. The appliance offers pre-packaged, ready-to-run analytical functions, such as digital marketing optimization, social network analysis, fraud detection, and analysis of machine-generated data in just hours.

With the Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance, customers can adopt MapReduce and Hadoop technologies without extensive training. The appliance offers customers a discovery platform that delivers a ready-to-run solution optimized for rapid, on-the-fly data exploration, and innovative big analytics insights.

"The Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance offers the faster path from diverse big data acquisition to big insights, and seamlessly delivers these insights to the business owners," said Scott Gnau, president of Teradata Labs, in a statement. "Unmatched by any other stack in the industry, it enables organizations to overcome the barriers to big data analytics and provides a high-definition view of the business to optimize operations."

Industries such as retail, ecommerce, consumer packaged goods, communications, and financial services needing deeper insights into consumer behavior can use the new Teradata appliance capabilities to harness multi-structured data from social media, Web clickstream, Twitter streams, call center activities, and other types of customer interaction data.

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