User Group Conference - Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading analytic data platforms, applications and services company, today announced a major advance in backup and recovery (BAR) capabilities for its customers. Teradata Data Stream Architecture (DSA) is a new and enhanced alternative, and an eventual replacement to the legacy ARC-based BAR architecture that will triple backup performance and reap significant improvements in scalability, usability, and security.
In an era of HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley and other stringent regulations on data retention and security, a robust BAR solution is essential to any enterprise-level data architecture, particularly in fields like healthcare, finance, and telecommunications. Teradata DSA is part of a high performing BAR solution that helps customers keep data safe and readily accessible to ensure business continuity and proper compliance with global regulations, all with minimal impact on data warehouse activities.
Teradata DSA was designed to optimize data streaming in and out of the Teradata database, achieving lightning-fast backup and restore windows. By removing bottlenecks in the Teradata software stack, data streaming rates for backups have been measured at up to five-times faster, with the appropriate hardware infrastructure improvements. Teradata DSA's key benefits include an incremental backup feature, which reduces the duration of backup activities by only sending new or changed data blocks to a backup target, instead of the entire object or database. Incremental backups are ideal for customers looking to reduce backup windows and storage requirements. DSA also improves the efficiency of deduplication devices such as EMC Data Domain, which will further reduce the amount of storage space required.
Meanwhile, temperature- and compression-aware features for hot and cold data allow data to be restored to the same temperature and compression states. Usability is improved via new Viewpoint BAR portlets that will be familiar to Teradata users. And, security is also enhanced because DSA users have to authenticate through traditional Teradata channels, rather than a stand-alone user interface.
The advantages of having a robust BAR solution for long-term storage and business continuity are well known in the industry, and Teradata's advocated BAR solution brings these benefits to Teradata Database's own uniquely powerful Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture. When BAR is fully integrated with the Teradata Database, backup and restore jobs are coordinated across the entire system of servers and storage devices, and the result is unrivaled performance and data availability with secure and maximum-speed data throughput
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