Teradata harnesses its history of parallel architecture for AI era [Video]

Teradata Corp. is embracing both legacy and innovation as the company looks to build on its long history of parallel architecture to become a trusted artificial intelligence platform.

Recently, Teradata has leveraged its partnerships with cloud giants such as Google and Amazon Web Services to offer hybrid data analytics. According to its Chief Executive Officer, Steve McMillan (pictured), the company is prepared for the AI era.

“Our Teradata approach in the past has been: bring all of your data into our ecosystem,” he said. “But we’ve recognized the fact that data is going to be in many places in the customer ecosystem, and we should move the query engine to the data rather than moving the data to the query engine, which is a very, very different approach. It’s a patented capability that we have in the Teradata ecosystem that allows us to distribute that workload, and we talk about meeting our customers where they want …