Teradata Vantage on Azure, better together.
 
Enterprises worldwide want to make business decisions based on data. They need to access data in real-time, across a wide range of data sources as possible. Business users need to derive answers from data without getting bogged down by the technology and infrastructure required to run advanced analytics. They need an end-to-end unified analytics platform that supports mission-critical workloads and minimizes data movement, so they can shift their focus from the mechanics of analytics to the meaning and opportunities behind the answers.

However, the complexity, cost, and inadequacy of today’s analytics landscape require business leaders to operationalize data analytics on an enterprise-ready, ultra-scalable platform to drive real business outcomes.
Teradata Vantage on Azure provides enterprise-grade real-time business intelligence through a comprehensive solution that combines analytics, data lakes, and data warehouse technologies. It leverages the scalability, speed, and power of Azure to help customers reduce infrastructure complexity and focus on answers, not IT.

Delivers real-time business intelligence at scale – allowing millions of queries, thousands of users, hundreds of applications, all running at the same time.

Combines analytics, data lakes and data warehouse together - Combines Advanced SQL, Machine Learning and Graph Engines with built-in object storage to query and analyze data from anywhere.

Helps customers reduce infrastructure complexity and focus on answers - Build and operationalize analytics using the tools of choice, such as: Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy, Informatica, Pentaho, Cognos, BusinessObjects, Qlik, Talend.

Reference Architecture

Vantage on Azure is comprised of a high-speed data store mated via a high-speed network fabric to:
 

• Highly performant Massively Parallel Advanced SQL Engine (formerly known as Teradata Database) running on Esv3 Azure virtual machines that provide high memory to-CPU ratio for greater performance.
• Machine Learning and Graph Engines (formerly from Aster Analytics) with more than 180 advanced analytic functions running as containerized applications leveraging Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

The data store in the architecture above is implemented Azure Premium Storage that provides consistent high performance and low latency leveraging Solid State Drives (SSDs) for I/O intensive enterprise workloads.

Deployment Models

Global Availability: Vantage on Azure is generally available globally across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific in the following regions:
 

• North America
  • East US
  • East US 2
  • Central US
  • North Central US
  • South Central US
  • West US
  • West US 2
  • Canada East
  • Canada Central
• Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
  • North Europe (Ireland)
  • West Europe (Netherlands)
  • France Central
  • UK West
  • UK South
• Asia-Pacific (APAC)
  • Australia East
  • Australia Southeast

Availability in the other regions will be considered based on customer demand.

Pricing Models

Under the Software as-a-Service model, Vantage systems may be acquired under two pricing models:
 

• Provisioned Capacity – The Advanced SQL Engine size of Vantage instances are dimensioned as provisioned capacity which is measured in terms of units called TCores, which are a weighted measure of compute and IO.
  
  Customers can resize the Advanced SQL Engine of their flexible capacity Vantage systems via the Console, a single interface to monitor and control their as-a-Service Vantage instances.
  
  While the Advanced SQL Engine can be resized up or down based on needed query capacity, the persistent data store capacity can only be increased.
   
• Pay-As-You-Go Pricing – Under this model, customers only pay for successfully-executed queries in terms of Vantage Units – a measure of compute cycles – and storage. The number of Vantage Units used is driven primarily by query complexity and execution time.

Self-Service Console

Management of Vantage on Azure instances is via a single pane of glass known as the Console, which provides the following functionality:
 

• Analytical engine monitoring & scaling: The Console provides users a picture of their Vantage instances, the different analytical engines, their sizes and the ability to resize them, both up and down as well as out and in. Users can also stop and restart the Advanced SQL Engine from the Console.
• Storage scaling: Users can scale up persistent data storage from the Console independently from the analytical compute engines.  
• Backups: Two full daily backups are included in each Vantage on Azure subscription. The schedule of these backups and monitoring their status can be performed via the Console. These backups are encrypted and stored in Azure Blob Storage.