Teradata announced availability of Teradata Database on Azure for first quarter of 2017, providing customers more choice of cloud options for Teradata software. By combining Teradata's data warehouse software with the agility and elasticity of Azure public cloud services, customers can focus on driving business value rather than installing and maintaining physical infrastructure. As businesses increasingly look to the cloud to drive competitive advantages, they have a need for greater agility, but also a mandate to lower financial and time commitments. These requirements are met in Teradata's Hybrid Cloud Solutions, which: Provide flexibility in deployment for increased responsiveness; Ensure high levels of security, data privacy and regulatory compliance; Enable optimization of workloads across deployment modes; Facilitate easier management of multiple environments; and Lower risk through the re-use of existing tools, capabilities and training. Teradata Database on Azure will offer self-service, under-an-hour provisioning, pay-as-you-go, and integration with a wide variety of Azure and Teradata software tools. Many of these features speed time to market, increase efficiency and reduce risk, such as rapid and easy procurement for quick proofs of concept and hourly subscriptions. The solution's powerful performance, reliability and convenience features include: MPP (massively parallel processing) multi-node scalability from 1 to 32 nodes; Automatic node failure recovery to ensure customers are up again quickly; and Backup to (and query of data within) Azure Blob storage for easy integration. Teradata Database on Azure will be available on the Azure Marketplace. Teradata Database on Azure, as well as Teradata Consulting and Managed Services for Azure, will be available globally in the first quarter of 2017, except in the US Gov Iowa, US Gov Virginia and China regions. Teradata Aster Analytics on Azure is targeted to be available in second quarter of 2017.