At the Hadoop Summit conference last week, Teradata announced some Hadoop-only products that are a lead-in for applying its data management services to this emerging platform. The new offerings, announced in conjunction with strategic partner Hortonworks, include a new Teradata-branded Hadoop-only appliance that adds new deployment and node management capabilities, and deeper Teradata-delivered service and support options. The announcements raise the question of what value-add IT incumbents bring to the Hadoop game, when professional support subscriptions are otherwise available direct from the source. The answer is twofold: one-stop shopping for enterprise data platforms and the potential of optimized data integration and management across increasingly heterogeneous analytic platform environments.

Enriching Hadoop

Teradata has announced for Q4 release a new standalone appliance for Hadoop; it also announced an a la carte Hadoop offering that provides options for installing Hadoop on a recommended commodity Dell server or on third-party hardware chosen by the …