Or was that my HPPD acting up?
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@1rqr+1hTo6r4t you summarized it well. What a shame. They were in the right market (data warehousing/analytics) at the right time (cloud emerging) but could not see the forest for the trees. And this was their only business segment. How much revenue does TDC get from Public Cloud annually? It is still under $100M, right. Less than 10% of total revenue. Hard to say you are Cloud-First when you get such a small amount of revenue from public cloud deployments.
Over a decade of failure. Case study in having your head in the sand. First, we ignored Cloud for three years. Then, we dabbled by building our own proprietary Teradata Cloud just in the US. Wasted two more years. Then we hired some guy from AWS that knew nothing about deploying a database in the in the cloud. Wasted three more years. Then to survive we bolted our on-prem database into AWS, then Azure, and finally Google. That gets a grade of C+. Then we woke up and decided to build a real cloud 10 years after watching Snowflake grow. And now that has failed. But hey, SM says we are #CloudFirst! I've been here watching all this and I only have one emotion left. Sadness...it did not have to be like this. No visionary leadership. No board members pushing the ELT. And paying these executives huge dollars for poor performance. Our part time CTO was here for the entire ride.
As an ex-employee and ex-Teracloud-ian, it was our last chance to stay relevant in the industry. Poor Management messed it up big time. Now we have unmotivated engineers and no-customers.
That’s because Teradata does not have separation of compute and storage. HA misleads customers and analysts all the time. Scale up or down is disruptive. No matter how many time our clueless CEO says Cloud-First, we still lack this basic cloud-native requirement. I think SM is confused and believes HA. Sad and misleading-we even told Gartner we have this.
Was never supposed to be a SF ki---r. Rather, was supposed to make Vantage cost competitive in the cloud. The dirty secret with the existing Vantage architecture is that it requires too much expensive storage and too much manual intervention by the TD cloud ops team. As a result, when you try to scale a Vantage in the cloud cluster, the costs to both the customer and TD grow much faster than the throughput and performance. This project was TD's last hope to address the price/performance issue in order to stay competitive. If the project was a failure, then TD is 100% doomed.
Does RG still work at Teradata?
So I can delete the 101, 201, 301 and 401 decks that customers enjoyed so much?
That was our last chance to turn this ship around. But it was an under-funded band aid approach started outside core Engineering and has suffered many technical set-backs and poor leadership. Initally it was not even in HAs group and she back-stabbed the team every chance she got. The when she got her hands on it things got even worse. It was not going to leapfrog Snowflake, it was trying to copy their basic cloud data warehouse and even if it had worked it would have been three years late and Snowflake has already moved way past their basic cloud data warehouse.
Don’t work.