Teradata

“It's an amazing database. I will still say that now, you know, seven years later, it's an amazing database. There are things that that, that system can do that, That really nobody else on the market can do. But, ah, it's proprietary and it's expensive.”

“It's really been a white fight for workflows versus a fight for like contracts. Cause in the past it was like, okay, you sign a ten million dollar contract for Teradata. You're kind of stuck with it, right? Like there's no choice now for the next three to five…”

“Before Amazon Redshift, in order to get access to that class of performance, you had to be a large enterprise because the only products that were sold with that type of performance were called data warehouse appliances, Netezza, Vertica, Teradata, et cetera. A…”

“It might seem like a recent thing, but actually throughout my 30 years in data science, the attention's always been on, you know, the big iron results. So when I first started, everybody was talking about data warehouses, and it was all about Teradata, and it'…”

“So when we talk about big data back in 1993 was the 10 terabyte Walmart data warehouse that cost eighty million dollars. That's how far things have come. That system had close to 10,000 hard disks to make it go.”

“If you work for a large bank or a large retailer or a large media company, you probably have Teradata.”

“To stand up a business object's universe and cube in a Teradata warehouse, or a Netezza warehouse, or whatever warehouse could take anything on the order of two years, right?”

“I think the sale was it was undisclosed, and I had left Astrid by then, but the sale was around three hundred twenty five million if we know the numbers correctly.”

“We sold the company to Teradata in 2011, and then I ran the company as a division with my co-founder, ah, for a couple of years.”

“And we realized that the only way to realize what the product and the company, ah, the vision, what it could offer was to align with the major player.”