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Teradata Corporation
Teradata
Type	Public (NYSE: TDC)
Founded	1979
Headquarters	Miamisburg, Ohio, United States
Key people	Michael Koehler, President and CEO James M. A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered securities ( Stock, bonds, etc The New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE) is a Stock exchange based in New York City. Miamisburg (mye-AM-iz-burg is a city in Montgomery County Ohio, United States. Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Michael Köhler was an East German Luger who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s Ringler, Chairman
Industry	Data Warehouse technologies
Products	Integrated Data Warehouse Hardware and Software, Professional Services, Customer Services
Revenue	$1. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services 69 billion USD (2007)
Employees	~5,300
Website	www.teradata.com

Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) is a hardware and software vendor specializing in data warehousing and analytic applications. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE) is a Stock exchange based in New York City. Teradata was formerly a division of NCR Corporation, the largest company in Dayton, Ohio. NCR Corporation ( is a technology company specializing in products for the retail and financial sectors Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the County seat and largest city of Montgomery County. Teradata's headquarters are in Miamisburg, OH. The spinoff from NCR occurred on October 1, 2007.

1 Technology
- 1.1 Operating System Compatibility
2 Customers
3 Competition
4 History
5 Teradata Utilities
6 Products
7 References
8 External links
9 See also

Technology

Teradata is a massively parallel processing system running a shared nothing architecture. Massive parallel processing ( MPP) is a term used in Computer architecture to refer to a computer system with many independent Arithmetic units or entire A shared nothing architecture (SN is a Distributed computing architecture in which each node is independent and self-sufficient and there is no Single point of contention The Teradata DBMS is linearly and predictably scalable in all dimensions of a database system workload (data volume, breadth, number of users, complexity of queries). ^[1] The scalability explains its popularity for enterprise data warehousing applications. A data warehouse is a Repository of an organization's electronically stored data Teradata is offered on Intel servers interconnected by the BYNET messaging fabric. Teradata systems are offered with either Teradata-branded LSI or EMC disk arrays for database storage. EMC Corporation ( is a US Fortune 500 and S&P 500 Provider of information infrastructure systems software and services A disk array is a Disk storage system which contains multiple Disk drives It is differentiated from a Disk enclosure, in that an array has Cache

Operating System Compatibility

Teradata offers a choice of several operating systems:

UNIX SVR4. An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination 2 MP-RAS, a variant of System V UNIX from AT&T
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on 64-bit Intel servers. Unix System V, commonly abbreviated SysV (and usually pronounced though rarely written as System 5 was one of the versions of the Unix Operating system Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made and Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Windows Server 2003 (also referred to as Win2K3 is a server Operating system produced by Microsoft. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ( SLES) is a Linux distribution supplied by Novell, targeted at the business market '64-bit' CPUs have existed in Supercomputers since the 1960s and in RISC -based workstations and servers since the early 1990s.

Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouses are often accessed via ODBC or JDBC by applications running on operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or flavors of UNIX. In Computing, Open Database Connectivity ( ODBC) provides a standard Software API method for using Database management systems (DBMS Java Database Connectivity (JDBC is an API for the Java programming language that defines how a client may access a Database. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer The warehouse typically sources data from operational systems via a combination of batch and trickle loads.

Teradata acts as a single data store that can accept large numbers of concurrent requests from multiple client applications. Significant features include:

Unconditional parallelism, with load distribution shared among several servers.
Complex ad hoc queries with up to 64 joins.
Parallel efficiency, such that the effort for creating 100 records is same as that for creating 100,000 records.
Scalability, so that increasing of the number of processors of an existing system linearly increases the performance. Performance thus does not deteriorate with an increased number of users.

Customers

Teradata currently has over 1,000 customers and over 1,900 installations of its RDBMS. The largest and most prominent customer is Wal-Mart, which runs its central inventory, enterprise reporting, and other financial systems on Teradata. Wal-Mart Stores Inc (or Walmart as written in its new logo is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores Wal-Mart's Teradata Data Warehouse is generally regarded by the DBS industry as being the largest data warehouse in the world. Other Teradata customers include companies such as AT&T (formerly SBC), Bank of America, Best Buy, Coca Cola, Continental Airlines and FedEx. Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made and Banc of America Securities Bank of America () is the largest bank by asset and second largest commercial Bank by deposits and Market capitalization in United Best Buy Co Inc ( is a Fortune 100 company and the largest specialty retailer of Consumer electronics in the United States and Canada Coca-Cola is a carbonated Soft drink sold in stores restaurants and Vending machines in more than 200 countries Continental Airlines Inc ( is a United States certificated air carrier. FedEx Corporation ( is a Logistics services company based in the United States. ^[2]

Competition

Teradata's main competitors are other high-end solutions from vendors such as Oracle, IBM, and Sybase. Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply Oracle) is a Relational database management system (RDBMS produced and marketed by DB2 is one of IBM 's families of Relational database management system (RDBMS (or as IBM now calls it data server software products within IBM's broader Information Sybase IQ, formally Sybase Adaptive Server IQ, is a Relational database software system used for data warehousing, produced by the Sybase corporation Recent competition has arisen from data warehouse appliance vendors such as DATAllegro, Greenplum and PANTA that use similar shared nothing architectures, and from packaged data warehouse applications such as SAP and Kalido, as well as hybrid solutions from Netezza. PANTA Systems (PANTA means big so "Big Systems" was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Santa Clara California with offices in Austin Texas and Pune A shared nothing architecture (SN is a Distributed computing architecture in which each node is independent and self-sufficient and there is no Single point of contention SAP Business Information Warehouse BY SAP AG ( SAP BW) is the name of the Business Intelligence, analytical reporting and Data Warehousing (DW solution which is one Kalido is a software company headquartered in Burlington Massachusetts with offices in the US London and India These have slowed Teradata's penetration into the mid-market and some verticals, particularly energy. In 2007, HP entered the data warehouse market with "Neoview", and raised some eyebrows when they announced a sale to Wal-Mart, a stalwart Teradata customer. Notable about HP's entry into this market is that HP's CEO Mark Hurd formerly led NCR's Teradata Division.

History

Teradata was founded in 1979 by:

Dr. Jack E. Shemer, President and Chairman of the Board.
Dr. Philip M. Neches, Vice President and Chief Scientist
Walter E. Muir, Vice President of Marketing
Jerold R. Modes, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
William P. Worth, Vice President of Manufacturing
Carroll Reed, Vice President of Research and Development

Between 1976 and 1979 the concept of Teradata grew out of research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and from the discussions of Citibank’s advanced technology group. The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, Coeducational research university located in Pasadena Citibank is a major international Bank, founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York. Founders worked to design a database management system for parallel processing with multiple microprocessors, specifically for decision support. A Computer Database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system ^[3] Teradata was incorporated on July 13, 1979, and started in a garage in Brentwood, Calif. Events 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The name Teradata was chosen to symbolize the ability to manage terabytes (trillions of bytes) of data. A terabyte (derived from the prefix Tera- and commonly abbreviated TB) is a measurement term for data storage capacity. ^[3]

A beta system was shipped to Wells Fargo Bank in 1983,^[3] and a production parallel RDBMS for decision support, the world's first, appeared in 1984. Wells Fargo & Co ( is a diversified Financial services company headquartered in San Francisco California, United States with operations around the A Relational database management system (RDBMS is a Database management system (DBMS that is based on the Relational model as introduced by E

FORTUNE magazine named Teradata “Product of the Year” in 1986. Fortune is a Global Business Magazine published by Time Inc's Fortune|Money Group ^[3] Over the next four years channel connections to IBM MVS^[3] and Univac OS1100 mainframes were introduced, and a Teradata system over one terabyte (a trillion bytes) went live. International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology UNIVAC serves as the catch-all name for the American manufacturers of the lines of mainframe computers by that name which through mergers and acquisitions underwent A terabyte (derived from the prefix Tera- and commonly abbreviated TB) is a measurement term for data storage capacity. ^[3]

In December 1991, NCR, then a division of AT&T, acquired Teradata. NCR Corporation ( is a technology company specializing in products for the retail and financial sectors Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made and ^[3] Teradata split from NCR and officially became Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) on October 1, 2007.

In 1996 a Teradata Database was the world’s largest, with 11 terabytes of data, and by 1999 the database of one of Teradata’s customers was the world’s largest database in production with 130 terabytes of user data on 176 nodes. A Computer Database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system A terabyte (derived from the prefix Tera- and commonly abbreviated TB) is a measurement term for data storage capacity. A terabyte (derived from the prefix Tera- and commonly abbreviated TB) is a measurement term for data storage capacity. ^[3]