In a bid to address the challenge of exorbitant costs associated with retaining large and growing volumes of historical data, Teradata Corporation and RainStor, Inc., came together to provide customers with cost-effective data retention capabilities.

A recognized leader in online information prevention, RainStor offers specialized data repository to technology partners across multiple industries. RainStor takes pride in its innovative technology for de-duplicating and compressing data. This, according to the company, enables a 97 percent storage footprint reduction. Additionally, data is directly accessible online and can be queried using standard SQL language and a number of other business intelligence tools.

Teradata (News - Alert) Corporation is focused on raising intelligence and achieving enterprise agility through its database software, enterprise data warehousing, data warehouse appliances, consulting, and enterprise analytics.

The partnership between the two companies is expected to check the spiraling costs associated with maintaining data archives. With built-in data reduction capabilities, the cost of retaining multi-terabytes, growing to petabytes goes down significantly, explained RainStor officials. Organizations can now meet industry compliance regulations, and also improve enterprise intelligence by ongoing access to larger volumes of historical data.

Many Teradata customers, in a mix of industries, have begun to delve into massive volumes of historical detailed data, as these customer examples demonstrate.

“Our partnership with RainStor's specialized data compression and reduction software helps broaden Teradata's reach to the retention market. This complements the Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family and back-up, archive and recovery solutions. This solution can eliminate the need to store historical data on tape and thereby avoid any business risk of not providing immediate response in compliance situations,” said Chief Development Officer at Teradata Corporation commented in a statement.

In a statement, RainStor’s CEO said that Teradata and RainStor are bringing to market something, which is sure to prove a unique industry offering that meets today's big data problem.

Last month RainStor announced that it became a member of the Network Intelligence Alliance (NI Alliance), a new industry organization created for collaboration among the Network Economy's technology providers. The company said that this participation in the NI Alliance will help it build and market innovative solutions for customers seeking to improve long-term data retention and ultimately, information preservation.

Madhubanti Rudra is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Jaclyn Allard