I left TD shortly before Vantagecloud Lake was released. As I recall, the new architecture was supposed to make Vantage as a service profitable as well as give existing customers a reason to stay with Teradata. Has any of that happened? From the negative tone on this board, it doesn't seem to have helped and maybe even accelerated the decline.
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I heard a LOT of customers say they wanted to be able to spin compute clusters up or down quickly and independent of storage to save money. Vantagecloud Lake was supposed to provide that capability according to the press release. Does it not work as advertised? Or is it beset by quality issues/ technical limitations? Or do customers not know about it because the marketing is so bad? This should have been an easy win. Hard to imagine how TD could have messed this up.
VantageLake is like the additional steak knives you see in those informercials. Customers are being given VantageLake for free as part of a renewal. They don't need it, but you'll get it for free. They're not paying for the junk, nor are they willing to migrate to it. The big hope was that customers would rush to migrate from Enterprise to vantagelake. So we give it away for free hoping that something might stick. One customer we gave it away to, has not put a single workload on it since they got it. And for good reason as it is just junk.
VantageCloud Lake is trash just like everything else this horrid company produces.
Who ever compared Vantage Lake to Snowflake showed their ignorance. Snowflake is the cloud-native industry best database. No comparison to Vantage Lake.
Better than people think. At least not like snow cr-p getting hacked. Hidden cost after you move to snowcrap.
It’s very bad, company will sell or needs leadership change asap.