Teradata Performance and Capacity

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Teradata Performance and Capacity

Application Performance

Warehousing capabilities has changed

comprises five integrated, but distinct,

Application Performance is critical to

the demands and expectations placed on

services:

maximizing the value of your Teradata

a data warehousing platform. Established

> Data Collection and Reporting

performance management practices are

now a requirement to realize maximum
value and performance from your
Teradata system investment.

Continually changing variables include

> Application Performance

> Workload Management

most efficient, productive manner while

> Multi-Temperature Services

This holistic approach to performance

increasing data volumes, and evolving

management provides the foundation for

business processes. These factors drive the

meeting mission-critical SLAs and squeez-

need for a proactive approach to manag-

ing additional cycles from your existing

ing system performance, meeting service

environment. These services can also be

level agreements (SLAs), and maximizing

included as part of your plans to upgrade

capacity of your Teradata environment.

your system and leverage the latest func-

Teradata Performance and Capacity

tionality that Teradata offers.

capabilities and provide mentoring for

Data Collection and Reporting

ongoing performance continuity.

Teradata has created a performance reporting database based on years of performance

Teradata recognizes that optimizing your

applications are handling queries in the

> Capacity Management

mixed workloads, analytical applications,

Services are designed to provide these

system. Teradata consultants will utilize

key reporting metrics to determine if

consulting. The database resides within your

utilizing the latest Teradata Database

functionality. Well also make recommendations and/or changes to the applications

data warehouse is critical to your return

Teradata system and provides diagnostic

on investment. Teradata consultants can

reports and graphs used to tune applica-

help by providing services that maximize

tions, monitor performance, develop

Our consultants will evaluate each app-

and enhance the performance of your data

capacity plans, and operate the Teradata

lication to assess its interaction with the

warehouse. More importantly, because the

system at peak efficiency.

physical data model, looking closely at

needs of your business and the demands

on your data warehouse will continue to

These reports are generated by more than

change and evolve, Teradata wont simply

100 data points collected from Teradata

perform these services, well mentor your

Database at specified time periods. Per-

personnel on practices for reporting and

formance data collection is the foundation

interpreting performance data. In other

for optimizing application performance,

words, your database administrators

workload management, capacity manage-

become more self-sufficient and find

ment, and multi-temperature.

bottlenecks early, before service levels

become an issue.

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to improve overall performance.

indexes, statistics, and compression.

They will analyze SQL design and analyze
performance of various queries. Key
Teradata Database features, such as value
list compression, multi-level partitioned
primary index, and materialized views can
be enabled to apply maximum resources to
your most critical workload while balancing the performance of each application.

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Capacity Management

As a result, youll gain optimized

Teradata consultants will analyze your

price/performance for all of the applica-

query traffic and establish a set of

Planning for system growth and ensuring

tions running on your Teradata system.

rules that will deliver service availabil-

predictable performance with growing

ity, predictable performance, and

demand is a key component of maintain-

process improvements.

ing a successful data warehouse. Teradata

In addition, Teradata consultants can

mentor your staff to perform the same

can help you achieve this goal.

tests and identify performance issues. By

A key part of this service will be assessing

enhancing your teams ability to address

and tuning existing tools and features

Using proven methodologies to estimate

application performance, you will have

such as Teradata Workload Manager,

growth in data volumes, users, and

made a solid investment in performance

Priority Scheduler, and Teradata Active

applications, Teradata consultants can

improvement.

Systems Management.

build a series of growth models that will

Workload Management

Our consultants will help you manage

As your data warehouse evolves, handling

mixed workloads better, increase overall

mixed workloads will become increasingly

workload capacity, and ensure that system

important. Its imperative that your

resources are allocated properly.

accommodate future demands placed

warehouse handle strategic analysis while

providing quick response to informational
requests that drive daily operations.
Establishing priorities for query types and
users can be difficult and challenging.

Teradata workload management tools

enable demands to be prioritized using a
variety of priority weightings and workload management rules. This allows the
throttling of applications that consume
large amounts of resources, such as data
mining, to minimize the impact on other
work. Queries are also reliably managed

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business priorities is essential. Mentoring

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detail how your system should be configured to meet future demands.

Multi-Temperature Services
Business data volumes are exploding at
an unprecedented rate. In addition to
detailed transaction data, legal retention
requirements mandate that years and
years of historical data be readily accessible for analysis.
Multi-Temperature data warehousing
describes an implementation concept

the ability to adjust and handle changing

nt

documented growth plan that provides

various estimates and configurations that

so they run at the most appropriate time

peak demands placed on your system,

Capacity
Management

on your data warehouse. This includes a

where the Teradata Database manages

both the active (hot) data and the inactive
(cool) data, which has not traditionally
been kept in the data warehouse due to
cost constraints.

your staff about performance data collection and performance features and tools

Teradata consultants will conduct inter-

available to them will help drive ROI of

views and analyses to identify business

your analytical applications.

processes that can use cold data or a mix

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of cold and hot data; and defining existing

The Data Warehouse Experts

We also understand how important it is for

and future application data requirements

Few companies will make a more strategic

you to achieve optimum performance levels

and application workload profiles. We also

technology investment than when they

from your Teradata system. The hardware,

identify storage optimization opportunities

deploy an enterprise data warehouse. Who

software, and applications must provide

and design a solution that could include

better to help you plan for future data

consistent, predictable performance to

changes to the data model, load processes,

warehouse demands and growth than

ensure a strong ROI. The unique combina-

and application access capabilities.

Teradata Corporation, the global leader in

tion of Teradata features, tools, and

experience is unmatched in the data

data warehousing?
Availability of Teradata Virtual Storage, an

warehousing industry.

optional software-based storage subsystem

Teradata is the world's largest company

that operates between Teradata Database

solely focused on creating enterprise

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and storage arrays, enables mixing storage

agility through database software, enter-

To learn more about Teradatas

technologies and automated temperature-

prise data warehousing, data warehouse

Performance and Capacity Services,

based data migration within or between

appliances, and enterprise analytics.

contact your Teradata representative

drives as data temperature is established.

Ultimately, Teradata Virtual Storage MultiTemperature enhancements enable the mix
of larger and smaller capacity drives within
a clique to provide a lower cost per unit of
data storage for less frequently accessed data.

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their solution provider. Weve built more
than 1,900 data warehouses that are used
by businesses of all sizes around the world.

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