Cincinnati, 2/1/2011 -- Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) announced today that it is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the Gartner, Inc. 2010 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems , Donald Feinberg, Mark A. Beyer, January 28, 2011.

The annual report positions vendors based on their completeness of vision in the data warehouse DBMS market and their ability to execute on that vision.

Gartner defines the Leaders' Quadrant for data warehouse DBMS as containing “vendors that demonstrate the greatest degree of support for data warehouses of all sizes, with large numbers of concurrent users and the management of mixed data warehousing workloads. These vendors lead the market in data warehousing by consistently demonstrating customer satisfaction and strong support, as well as longevity in the data warehouse DBMS market, with strong hardware alliances. Hence, leaders also represent the lowest risk for successful data warehouse implementations, in relation to, among other things, performance with increasing mixed workloads, database sizes and complexity. Additionally, the market's maturity demands that leaders maintain a strong vision for the key trends of the past year: mixed-workload management for end-user service-level satisfaction and data volume management.”

The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance is a strong competitor in the market.

Teradata extends its benefits to customers through strategic partnerships, such as with new partner Cloudera which helps companies derive greater insight from unstructured data, and with SAS which brings greater business analytics.

According to Scott Gnau, “We focused on our customers’ needs and released Teradata Database 13.10 that supports improved compression, extensibility with our open parallel virtual machine technology and the industry’s first true bi-temporal functionality providing for point-in-time analyses. These improvements are available across the entire Teradata Purpose-Built Platform family.” (Scott Gnau, Chief Development Officer, Teradata Corporation)

arryl McDonald, Executive Vice President, Applications, Business Development, and CMO, notes “Gartner noted that Teradata came out fighting in 2010, and we will continue to innovate in ways that deliver value to our customers. We’re very pleased Gartner has recognized us for our accomplishments.” He argues “In 2010, Teradata Labs delivered time and again, with products such as the industry’s only solid state data warehouse, the Teradata Extreme Performance Appliance, a hyper-analytic data warehouse that delivers results to customers with blazing speed. Teradata will continue to wow customers with our attention to their needs, so that they can compete and win on analytics, and drive greater insights from new forms of big data.” He notes “For those who know Teradata, this Gartner report should come as no surprise. We are dedicated to providing world-class service in data warehousing.”

About Teradata

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