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Teradata Expands Options for Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
As-a-service solution offering cost-effective alternative to on-premises systems using Vantage now available on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services
In a data-driven world, analytics are mission-critical – and yet a substantial portion of enterprises do not have business continuity plans which include a dependable, secondary analytics environment for situations in which the primary system becomes unavailable, such as during a security breach or regional power outage. To mitigate such situations, Teradata offers Disaster Recovery as a Service, providing on-premises customers a public cloud environment ready to be spun up on-demand so that business operations can carry on with minimal disruption. Cloud-based disaster recovery solutions are extremely cost effective by virtue of minimal resource usage, which consists mostly of low-cost object storage for daily or weekly backups and hibernated compute for the secondary Vantage system in the cloud.
“Disaster Recovery (DR) is increasingly recognized by our customers as necessary, given that an unexpected loss of a production analytics system could mean more than just lost revenue. Unplanned downtime can lead to loss of data and business reputation, decreased client satisfaction and retention, reduced employee morale, productivity issues and legal entanglements,” said Brian Wood, Director and Cloud Advocate at Teradata. “In the past, DR required an additional – largely underutilized – physical system, which was often expensive or resulted in poor ROI. With Disaster Recovery as a Service, Teradata is filling the gap by providing a solution in the cloud that is much more cost effective due to the separation of compute and storage: the compute resources are off whenever they are not used – which is essentially always – and only spun up when needed.”
Teradata is making it easy for its large installed base of on-premises customers to leverage the cloud while extending the usefulness and ROI of their physical systems. Customers get the most value out of previous investments by continuing to use what they already own – as well as take steps into the cloud with hybrid cloud offers such as this one, which span both on-premises and cloud.
In addition, Teradata’s DRaaS uses the same advocated backup and restore (BAR) infrastructure that customers use on-premises. This means there is no additional infrastructure to buy or learn, which makes the solution plug-n-play. On-premises customers simply change the destination location of daily/weekly disaster recovery backups to Teradata-managed cloud object storage, either Amazon S3 or Azure Blob.
Availability
Teradata Disaster Recovery as a Service is now available using AWS or Azure infrastructure in most AWS and Azure regions globally. Similar capability using Google Cloud Platform infrastructure is planned for introduction in 2021. Customers seeking an even more comprehensive, turnkey DRaaS offer should consider Teradata’s Managed Disaster Recovery options.
Teradata Board Appoints Steve McMillan President and Chief Executive Officer
Proven Technology Leader Brings a Track Record of Driving Global Strategy and Execution in Hypergrowth Enterprise Cloud Businesses
Teradata (NYSE: TDC) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Steve McMillan President and Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors, effective June 8, 2020. Mr. McMillan was previously at F5 Networks, Inc. as Executive Vice President of Global Services. He succeeds interim President and Chief Executive Officer, Victor Lund. Mr. Lund will step down from the Company’s Board of Directors, effective upon the appointment of Mr. McMillan as CEO on June 8, 2020.
With nearly two decades in senior leadership positions, Mr. McMillan is a seasoned technology executive with an impressive track record of transforming enterprise services and product businesses into industry-leading cloud portfolio offerings. His relentless focus on customers and strong bias for action will help propel Teradata to new levels of success.
“During this time of transformation, there is no better person to lead Teradata than Steve McMillan,” said Mike Gianoni, Chairman of the Teradata Board of Directors. “Steve is a proven leader with tremendous operational experience and business acumen, and he has a unique ability to bring people together to achieve outstanding results and drive companywide transformations to the cloud. His vision for how data will be leveraged around the world is precisely what Teradata needs as we accelerate our transformation, customer success, product innovation, and return to growth.”
Most recently, at F5, Mr. McMillan was responsible for more than half of the Company’s worldwide operations and achieved significant top-line growth and industry-leading customer satisfaction. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Customer Success, and Managed Cloud Services at Oracle, where he guided the Company’s transformation from a traditional hosting business to a high-growth, high-margin differentiated cloud offerings platform. Before Oracle, Mr. McMillan spent nearly 20 years at IBM, where he held a variety of increasingly senior leadership roles driving operations and execution with a consistent record of exceeding revenue and profit targets, business transformation, and collaborative leadership.
“It is a privilege to have the opportunity to lead Teradata in the next chapter of its growth strategy,” said Mr. McMillan. “Leveraging insights from data has never been more important, and Teradata is leading the way in helping global enterprises unlock real business value from this asset. Teradata has a unique position in a large market, best-in-class technology, a blue-chip customer base, and talented employees. I intend to take a customer-led approach and bring my collaborative and open leadership style to this great franchise to advance its strategy and to ensure Teradata is the partner of choice for customers around the world who need hybrid, cloud-based solutions.”
Mr. Gianoni added, “I would like to thank Vic for his extensive contributions to Teradata. We look forward to continuing to benefit from his institutional knowledge as an advisor to the Company through the end of the year and wish him all the best.”
In a separate press release to be issued today, Teradata will report 2020 first-quarter financial results. Teradata will host a conference call at investor.teradata.com today, at 2 pm PT, to discuss its financial results. The live broadcast and a replay will be available on the Teradata website at investor.teradata.com.
Teradata Announces General Availability of Vantage Customer Experience
Partners with Celebrus to Deliver Personalized Experiences Across All Customer Interactions to Drive Incremental Revenue and Lower the Cost-to-Serve
“Delivering optimized experiences at the speed customers expect is a top priority for brands across every industry. But with the growing complexity of a fractured digital landscape, this has become increasingly challenging,” said Martyn Etherington, CMO at Teradata. “With Vantage CX — underpinned by Celebrus’ customer interaction data — we are able to address this challenge by giving enterprises the best possible data, in real time, from across all lines of business and customer touchpoints. This allows marketers to seamlessly operationalize insights across all their customer channels, delivering more value to their customers, and ultimately, increasing their bottom line.”
Providing a superior customer experience is the top priority for customer-centric organizations, yet many struggle to gain a comprehensive view of customer interactions that span multiple touchpoints and departments. With the rapid growth of martech tools and customer engagement systems creating more analytic silos, additional challenges arise in sensing and reacting to customer opportunities and pain points. This means businesses cannot explicitly personalize customer interactions in a timely manner. Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) are emerging to solve this challenge by enabling nontechnical business users to easily and quickly extend the customer profile, generate customer insights and deliver finely tailored instructions to the last-mile tools that execute personalized messages.
Vantage CX, the first enterprise CDP, overcomes the complexity through a unified view of the customer, easy-to-use advanced analytics that turn data into customer insights, and orchestrated messages across martech tools and customer engagement systems to turn insights into real-time actions. In addition, newly available features in Celebrus further ensure the highest-quality data possible for Vantage CX users because Celebrus is completely unimpacted by the digital challenges of today, including Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) and other browser limitations.
“For over 10 years, Celebrus and Teradata have continued to innovate our partnership and technology integrations. Our ability to feed industry leading customer data into Teradata within milliseconds provides a point of differentiation for both of our solutions, which is evidenced by the long list of household-name banks and other global enterprises we are proud to call joint clients,” said Peter Kear, CEO at D4t4 Solutions.
Pricing: Vantage CX is available as a service. This means Teradata provides the hardware, installs the software and manages the day-to-day operations. Pricing is based on tiers of capabilities; the higher the tier the greater amount of capabilities. This allows for an entry level or starter license that then gives organizations the ability to start small and scale up as their needs and/or sophistication grows.
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Teradata Appoints Peter Stadler as Country Manager Switzerland
WALLISELLEN, SWITZERLAND – April 7, 2020 – Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the cloud analytics company delivering Pervasive Data Intelligence, today announced the appointment of Peter Stadler as new Country Manager in Switzerland. Peter Stadler is responsible for the business in Switzerland since March 2020 and has more than 20 years of experience as manager in the IT industry.
Experienced IT manager
Before joining Teradata, Stadler held various management positions at the software company Opentext – most recently as VP Enterprises Sales, where he was responsible for the markets in Greece, Italy, Malta, Austria, Switzerland and Cyprus.
From 2015 to 2017, Stadler headed the Enterprise Content Division at Dell EMC as Senior Director for the DACH region, where he played a key role in the company’s growth in the German-speaking markets.
His additional positions in sales include the market research company Gartner, where he was responsible for Austria and Switzerland as Regional Vice President, and SoftwareOne, a provider of software portfolio management. Stadler began his career in sales for various IBM and Microsoft Business Partners. He studied economics at the University of St. Gallen and electrical engineering at the evening engineering school in Horw.
“We want to show Swiss companies that data is the real asset in today’s world and contributes to the measurable success of our customers. Teradata is exactly the right business partner for today’s data society. We support our customers in obtaining answers from data analyses, so that they can adapt their business to new requirements at any time,” says Stadler, new Country Manager for Switzerland at Teradata.
Sascha Puljic, Vice President Central Europe at Teradata, adds: “We are pleased that we were able to win Peter Stadler for Teradata. With his many years of experience at leading IT companies, we have gained a competent and experienced Country Manager for Switzerland. His previous successes speak for his professional expertise, his leadership qualities and his entrepreneurial foresight. Together, we will strengthen existing customer relationships and open up new market opportunities for Teradata.”
Goals for Switzerland
In his new position at Teradata, Stadler aims to increase Teradata’s growth in Switzerland, create jobs and be a strategic partner for corporate customers.
Teradata Earns Top Ranking in “Current Offering” Category and Named a Leader in Data Management for Analytics Evaluation by Independent Research Firm
Teradata (NYSE: TDC) announced today that Forrester Research has named the company a Leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Data Management For Analytics, Q1 2020,” written by principal analyst Noel Yuhanna, on February 12, 2020. Forrester analyzed and scored the top vendors in the Data Management for Analytics market according to 25 criteria, giving Teradata the highest score in the Current Offering category.
Forrester’s positioning of Teradata in the Data Management for Analytics wave evaluation is based on the company’s Vantage platform, Teradata’s flagship product that delivers analytics, data lakes and data warehouses in a single, unified platform. By using 100% of available data to uncover real-time business intelligence at scale, Teradata Vantage enables businesses to turn analytic insights into answers.
In the report, Forrester evaluated Teradata among 14 Data Management for Analytics providers and had this to say: “Teradata offers advanced DMA capabilities, including in-database analytics, distributed query processing, self-service, automation, workload management, and broad security. Teradata Vantage provides the same advanced analytic processing across all deployment options, including Teradata Cloud, public cloud options like AWS, Azure, and Google, and as-a- service and on-premises, which gives clients choice and flexibility.”
Forrester also notes that Teradata’s reference customers, “…like its ease of use, hybrid cloud and independent storage, and compute processing capabilities,” and summarizes that Teradata, “…remains a prominent choice, especially for hybrid deployments where scalability and availability are critical.”
“Our customers are the largest and most data-intensive companies in the world and rely on Teradata to deliver advanced analytic processing, at scale, regardless of their data infrastructure ,” said Chris Twogood, senior vice president of marketing at Teradata. “We believe Teradata’s position as a leader in Forrester’s 2020 evaluation makes clear that our Vantage platform is delivering real business value to our customers, helping them move from analytics to answers with a cloud-forward platform that gives them the choice and flexibility they need.”
Read the complete The Forrester Wave™: Data Management For Analytics, Q1 2020 report here.
Teradata Board of Directors Builds on Expertise in Cloud, Finance
Kim Nelson brings a strong financial foundation and adds further cloud and software expertise to Teradata’s board
Ms. Nelson has served as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of SPS Commerce, Inc., a provider of cloud-based supply chain management solutions worldwide, since 2007. Previously, she led investor relations and held senior finance positions at Amazon.com. Prior to Amazon, Nelson held positions in finance management at The Pillsbury Company (now General Mills) and Nestle’s beverage division.
“Kim is an excellent addition to Teradata’s Board,” said Vic Lund, Executive Chairman, Teradata Corporation. “Kim’s background in cloud-based technologies and her financial acumen, as well as her leadership in supporting digital transformation and cloud-based software communities make for an ideal alignment with Teradata. Her expertise will benefit Teradata as the company extends its leading market position in cloud-based data and analytics.”
“I am honored to join Teradata’s board at this pivotal time in the company’s history. Teradata is a company on the move and leading the conversation on the power of data and analytics,” said Kim Nelson. “I am impressed with its focus on customer success and I look forward to working as a part of the company’s board to build long-term value for our shareholders.”
Ms. Nelson was selected following a comprehensive search conducted by the board, and she has been elected as a Class I director. Ms. Nelson will serve as a member of the Audit Committee.
Teradata Highlights Cloud-first Stance at AWS re:Invent
Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the cloud analytics company delivering Pervasive Data Intelligence, is at AWS re:Invent 2019 this week, showcasing its cloud capabilities with speaking sessions, technical sessions, in-booth education, participation in the AWS Marketplace Partner Solution Expo and 1:1 meetings with partners, customers, analysts and media. In all of these activities, Teradata will showcase its flagship product, Teradata Vantage, which delivers analytics, data lakes and data warehouses – all unified in the cloud and available as-a-service.
“With its modern cloud architecture, Teradata Vantage enables Teradata customers to take advantage of everything the cloud has to offer: elastically and independently scale compute or storage, pay only for what is used, leverage low-cost object stores and integrate analytic workloads,” said Brian Wood, Director of Cloud Marketing, Teradata. “By providing these capabilities in a public, multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environment, Teradata is moving the cloud forward and continuing to innovate in the core areas impacting the modern cloud architecture. This ensures that Teradata customers can move from analytics to answers wherever they are on their cloud journey.”
At AWS re:Invent 2019, Teradata is also announcing that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) PrivateLink Ready designation, which recognizes that Teradata has demonstrated successful integration between Vantage and AWS PrivateLink. AWS customers interested in using AWS PrivateLink can be confident that Teradata Vantage is generally available and fully supported.
Teradata Activities at AWS re:Invent 2019
Teradata Booth #405:
AWS re:Invent 2019 attendees interested in learning more about Teradata and its Vantage software for cloud analytics are invited to stop by the Teradata booth (#405). Topics include:
- Vantage on AWS
- Consumption pricing
- Support for Native Object Stores such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- How Teradata services work with AWS services
- Vantage Developer tools
- Machine Learning and Graph Engines for Vantage
- Customer stories and analytic use cases including financial fraud, churn reduction and customer experience
Teradata Speaking Sessions:
- Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 4:45p.m. in MGM, Level 1, Grand Ballroom 124: Teradata speakers Ashish Yajnik, Vice President of Product Management, and Scott Dykstra, Director of Cloud Solutions & Strategy, will discuss how Teradata uses AWS to power the enterprise analytics it offers to Teradata customers.
- Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 10a.m. in Mirage, Grand Ball Room F: Teradata experts Vinod Raman, Product Manager and Mahesh Subramanian, Senior Director, Engineering, will join Ashish Palekar, Director, Product Management at AWS to deliver a technical deep dive on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).
Teradata representatives can also be found in the AWS Marketplace Partner Solution Expo on Thursday, Dec 5 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Customers, prospects and partners interested in meeting 1:1 can reach out to Brian Wood to schedule a private meeting.