The US-based data and analytics company Teradata has introduced licence portability for hybrid cloud computing for its customers.

With portable database licenses, Teradata customers can now choose, shift, expand, and restructure their hybrid cloud environment by moving licenses between deployment options as their business needs change, that is, between keeping this data on-premises or on cloud or on both. This new software licensing model is the first in the hybrid cloud market to feature portability — a shift away from cloud lock-in or siloed on-premises deployments. With this new facility, Teradata's customers can develop an analytic solution on the on-premises system — Intelliflex — and later port the same to the cloud facility, Intellicloud.

Sunil Jose, Managing Director, Teradata India, said: The new facility "delivers lower up-front costs and, with a consistent operating expenses model, makes it easier for customers to budget and predict spending patterns."

At a press conference held here, Teradata also announced an all-memory update to its Intelliflex platform. The new system has been upgraded by a move to all solid state drives, which make it possible to reduce required data centre space while also delivering an increase in processiing power. The upgrade indicates a gradual shift to solid state drives and away from hard disk drives (HDDs), as the former - whose costs were too prohibitive to be included in data warehouse appliances - sees its cost now come down. Teradata believes that SSDs will eventually be the preferred mode of storage for enterprise-level analytics appliances.

The company is also updating its solutions in the customer experiences model that will give marketers easier access to analytics, dynamic visualisations, machine learning and predictive simulations.

(The correspondent is in Nice at the invitation of Teradata)

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