Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst drowns data lakehouse concept
Despite being powered by recent developments in cloud computing, Teradata has learned from the Hadoops and"cloud-native" hype cycles that focus on architecture, rather than specific technologies, is the secret to success.
But technology developments have caused Teradata to rethink its investments. An example of the volte-face was the– maker of a de-duplication engine adapted for Hadoop – which was later retired as Teradata refocused its efforts on cloud and blob storage. He explains that Teradata faced a different set of challenges to the vendors building data warehousing systems in the cloud from scratch as it wanted to keep its existing customers – which include some of the world's largest banks, retailer, and consumer goods firms – by supporting APIs from on-prem systems in the cloud, easing migration.
"It has to convince people to build on the investments they've made and see them as investments as opposed to legacy tech. It wants to help them figure out what that architecture looks like as it moves to the cloud. It's about not losing their base basically as they face these competitors that are dangling shiny objects in front of those customers who have relied on Teradata for many years.