Teradata delivers portable database licensing for the hybrid cloud

Whilst cloud and hybrid models offer undoubted flexibility, they can lead to problems when it comes to keeping track of software licenses.

Analytics solutions company Teradata is looking to cut through the confusion with the launch of a new simplified licensing model. This aims to deliver portability for deployment flexibility, subscription-based licenses and simplified tiers with bundled features.

With portable database licenses, Teradata customers can now have the flexibility to choose, shift, expand, and restructure their hybrid cloud environment by moving licenses between deployment options as their business needs change.

"The Teradata Database continues to be recognized as the leading data management solution for analytics in every performance parameter, and today we can also say it comes with the very best value proposition," says John Dinning, executive vice president and chief business officer at Teradata. "Not only is the database license portable across the hybrid cloud options, but so are workloads, enabled by a common code base in all deployments. This flexibility is a first in our industry and means that data models, applications, and development efforts can be migrated or transferred unchanged across any ecosystem."

These new subscription-based licenses come in four simplified tiers designed to meet customer requirements. These range from a free tier for database development in non-production environments, to an enterprise tier with a robust set of workload management features.

All the tiers come with the same version of Teradata's database software. This enables the easy movement of workloads across tiers. They also all come with high-value database features bundled into the license to make it easy for customers to incorporate cutting-edge technologies and build sophisticated analytical environments.

More details on each of the options are available on the Teradata website.

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