Many Teradata customers are facing a tough decision as 1) they see competitive cloud data warehouse come into the marketplace, 2) their appliances are declared to be at end-of-life or 3) they consider
the options presented by Teradata for their future technology. The decision is more difficult for smaller customers on appliances.
The decision of how to proceed is not an easy decision. Spotlight has years of experience dealing with choice of architectures, migration to other
platforms, and selection of appropriate infrastructures. Spotlight offers the following services to help customers deal with these choices:
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Spotlight offers its StackUp service for Teradata small-to-medium sized customers who need account attention or are facing an end of life decision on their appliances.The StackUp offering includes industry-standard hardware and Teradata
on VMWare as an alternative to upgrading to the cloud, upgrading to Intelliflex, or choosing a different vendor. In some cases, keeping the data warehouse on-site is a better answer than moving to the cloud for reasons of risk, cost,
complexity, and disruption. This low-risk approach ensures the latest software release will run and extend the life of any Teradata environment. For customers that need time to determine the long-term course of action, the StackUp
offering provides 'breathing room' to consider alternatives (perhaps using Spotlight's MatchUp service for assistance).
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Teradata accounts that are smaller and not served by Teradata account teams are faced with a choice of several options regarding their platforms.
Most likely, these accounts are 2-node or 4-node appliance products that are no longer offered. In the case of earlier appliances, some platforms are no longer offered but they are also no longer supported.
Customers in this situation are also likely to have little contact with Teradata sales or consulting personnel (except via the phone). That leaves the following choices:
Teradata IntelliflexSmaller Teradata accounts may not need the power and size of the Teradata Intelliflex offering, especially if the current platform is a 2-node or 4-node appliance. The cost of the platform and the complexity of moving to the larger, more powerful may not be affordable.Teradata CloudVantage on the Teradata Cloud provides accounts with the power and capabilities of Teradata and a cloud deployment option.The as-a-service offering allows customers to focus on the value derived from their data running on Teradata while entrusting the infrastructure details to Teradata.Teradata Platform End of LifeWIthin the next few months all Teradata appliances will be declared as "end of life" with support and maintenance continuing on a best-efforts basis. Should the software or hardware fail, it may have a profound impact on daily operations.Teradata As-IsThe last option is to do nothing and let the system run until it can no longer run in a degraded configuration. The risks are high but the resilience and reconfigurability of Teradata may extend the life of the platform until a replacement approach is implemented.Contact us to learn more. ![]() |
Customers who think a new cloud data warehouse is the path to pursue for replacement of their Teradata system should be well-informed on the topic.
Cloud data warehouse provides such as Snowflake, RedShift, and Datometry may appear to be simpler and more convenient to use, but there are many factors to be considered beyond the initial appeal of something new.
Teradata's power has proven itself over the years in terms of flexible workloads, query concurrency, resillience and more. In addition, selection of a platform doesn't address the other key parts of the infrastructure such as
data load servers, BI servers, applications, analytics and more. Spotlight's MatchUp service is designed to help customers deal with all these issues and to make an information decision about cloud deployment options. After analysis, it may be evident that the right answer is to stay with Teradata and move to the Teradata Cloud offering. Contact us to learn more. ![]() |