Actian (HCL) Avalanche on Azure Managed, Hybrid Cloud Data Warehouse

Actian Corporation, part of the HCL Technologies Ltd. ecosystem, announced the availability of its Avalanche cloud data warehouse, a fully managed service, on Microsoft Azure.

Avalanche provides a flexible hybrid solution to migrate data and apps to the cloud at your own pace, while delivering speed, flexibility and economics both on-premise and in the cloud. It is designed to work with Azure data services such as Azure Data Lake Store Gen 2, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft PowerApps, and Azure AI including Azure ML.

Companies need the enterprise-grade performance, management, and security capabilities of a modern data warehouse, combined with the elasticity and economics of the cloud to deploy and scale data analytics services. With more companies migrating to Azure, the company recognized the market need for an enterprise, hybrid cloud data warehouse to deliver superior data analytics capabilities and performance.

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Avalanche on Azure provides:

• Fastest data warehouses on Azure: Industry standard benchmarks demonstrate a significant performance advantage over alternative offerings in the market.

• Hybrid design: Distributes query workloads across both on-premises and cloud environments. The firm’s support for enterprise-wide data federation enables insights, without the need to move data from its place of origin.

• Managed service: Fully managed so users can focus on delivering superior insight.

• Flexibility: Use only the compute and storage resources needed, with extensive pre-built connector support for over 200 popular enterprise applications.

• Simplified frictionless pricing model: Pioneering consumption model enables organizations to shift their workloads across regions, different clouds, and on-premise and cloud environments while protecting their data warehouse investment.

• Breakthrough economics: Industry price performance, over 9 times better than cloud data warehouse market alternatives, can save organizations millions.

“Actian is proud to offer Avalanche to its customers on Microsoft Azure, powering performance at scale and real-time insights in the cloud without compromising speed or flexibility,” said Rohit De Souza, CEO and president, Actian. “Avalanche’s fully managed solution, now offering free storage for the first year, enables customers to focus on delivering superior insight while enjoying unprecedented savings and deployment flexibility as they modernize their enterprise data warehouse.“

Avalanche free storage offer
As a special incentive to help customers maximize their ROI when adopting Avalanche cloud data warehouse, the company is announcing that organizations can harness Avalanche’s performance on Azure with Avalanche’s up to 10TB of free storage for the first year promotional offering for qualifying purchases (terms and conditions apply and offer is subject to change). For an in-depth look at what next gen, hybrid cloud data warehouse computing is all about and terms of this promotional offer.

Beacon Health adopts Avalanche cloud data warehouse
“Actian is known for innovative data management and integration technology. At Beacon Health, we tested and selected Actian Avalanche to address our most demanding data analytics workloads,” said Dan Sheehan, EVP and CIO, Beacon Health Options, Inc. “With Actian’s introduction of their Avalanche cloud data warehouse offering for Azure, we believe that we found the perfect combination of great analytic performance and the lowest TCO available in a cloud offering. This will allow Beacon to service our customers more effectively and very cost-efficiently.“

Avalanche Cloud Data Warehouse Service Diagram

Recognizing the industry need for a data warehouse that can maintain a hybrid environment, with some data in the cloud and some on-premise, the company built an automated and managed cloud data warehouse so organizations can focus less on administration and maintenance and more on their business differentiation. Avalanche, available on Azure, allows customers to use the same skills, technology, and applications for both cloud and on-premise deployments, reducing the staff required to administer hybrid deployments and resolves the data complexity issues around compliance that businesses have faced for some time.

Activate your data
Actian Corporation, majority owned by HCL Technologies Ltd., the hybrid data management, analytics and integration company, delivers data as an advantage to thousands of organizations worldwide. Through the deployment of enterprise, hybrid data products, managed cloud services, mobile and IoT Edge data management, and industry solutions the company ensures that business critical systems can analyze, transact and connect at their very best – both on premise and in the cloud. Thousands of forward-thinking organizations around the globe trust the firm to help them solve their toughest data challenges to transform how they power their businesses with data.

The company  empowers global enterprises with technology for the next decade today. HCL’s Mode 1-2-3 strategy through its domain industry expertise, customer-centricity and entrepreneurial culture of entrepreneurship enables businesses transform into next-gen enterprises.