Teradata Loom speeds data access, and enables better integration

Teradata Loom speeds data access, and enables better integration : Teradata Loom 2.5, is a solution for data lake management and enables a wider range of users to more easily find, access, and analyze data in data lakes. This helps generate new business insights, which can be integrated with the existing analytical ecosystem to drive higher levels of productivity. "Data lakes are growing because of their scalability, low cost, and they provide organizations access to diverse data. However, many organizations fail to gain business value from their Hadoop investments," said Dan Harrington, executive vice president, Global Consulting and Support Services, Teradata "The game-changing technology in our latest release of Teradata Loom makes data lakes more secure, easier to manage, faster to access, and better integrated with the customers’ analytic ecosystem."

Teradata Loom enables data analysts and data scientists to easily find, access, and understand data in hadoop and quickly start with data analysis to accelerate the time from data acquisition to delivering business insights.

Technical enhancements in Teradata Loom 2.5 offer users market-leading manageability and security and offers fine grain security model to access Hadoop data, faster data discovery through personalization, and flexible and extensible “measurement” model, Enterprise security is a key requirement for today’s data lake deployments. Teradata Loom now offers automatic authentication and authorization only for users with permission to view and edit specific metadata. The enhancements readily integrate with authentication and authorization protocols like Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Kerberos.

Teradata Loom 2.5 adds support for user personalization, which allows users to flag data that is important and add documentation and comments. This results in a better-organized data lake that is easier to search. Teradata Loom 2.5 adds more flexible ways to profile and manage data by adding statistical capabilities. The enhancements enable external applications and technologies to register and add their own measurements on Hadoop files. For example, Teradata Loom can measure and validate the previously calculated totals of files, the number of records loaded, the time that loading started and stopped. These measurement capabilities ensure data integrity. Teradata Loom Community Edition is available for download.