Chris Twogood – VP of Product & Services Marketing for Teradata – Is In theCUBE

Data warehouse firm Teredata Corp. is jumping into Hadoop again, only this time round it’s teaming up with Cloudera Inc. at the same time as it launches its new Hadoop cloud service.

The biggest news is Teredata’s partnership with Cloudera. Up until now its enjoyed a very close integration with Cloudera’s rival Hortonworks, and so the deal lessens its reliance on that particular Hadoop distribution. Teredata has developed a new set of connectors that integrate its data warehouse with Cloudera’s Hadoop, allowing customers to query and manage multiple data stores using its unique set of tools.

As part of the deal, Teredata will also begin reselling Cloudera’s enterprise products, along with the other Hadoop distributions it sells. Teredata claims that one benefit is its recent acquisition of Think Big Analytics will deliver Cloudera-specific skills to mutual customers.

“If you look back there was a lot of conversation on whether Hadoop was trying to replace the data warehouse,” Chris Twogood, VP of product and services marketing for Teradata, said to ZDNet. “But Teradata does stuff that Hadoop will never do, and Hadoop does stuff that Teradata will never do — and that is the clarity that we want to bring to the market.”

There’s also a third aspect to the partnership, as Cloudera’s education and training services will now be available to Teredata’s customers.

At the same time, Teredata is launching a new service that lets users run Hadoop workloads in the cloud on Teradata-managed infrastructure. Teredata Cloud for Hadoop will be available sometime in the fourth quarter, and compliments the analytics software that Teredata rolled out last year.

Teredata has been steadily accelerating its support for Hadoop in recent months. As well as Think Big Analytics, it recently acquired the SQL-on-Hadoop startup Hadapt – a sign perhaps, that as more of its customers look to deploy Hadoop, Teredata needs all the expertise in the area it can get.

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