Teradata, a long-time player in the massively parallel data warehouse space, has purchased Big Data Partnership, a London-based provider of big-data engineering, consulting and training, for an undisclosed sum.
“Big Data Partnership will join Teradata’s Think Big consulting practice, accelerating Think Big’s expansion of open-source consulting services,” Teradata said in a statement.
The purchase will help Teradata, based in Mountain View, Calif., expand internationally, as Big Data Partnership mainly serves customers in Europe and Asia. The companies will initially focus on the U.K., France, Germany, the Scandinavia, Switzerland and China.
Big-data analytics services are a fast-growing market valued at $40 billion last year, according to a Gartner study cited by Teradata. The Internet of Things and data streams from consumers are both contributing to a growing volume of data that requires specialized techniques to interpret, Teradata said. That effort can be hindered, it said, by trial and error with big-data analytical products and techniques, and by huge fluctuations in database size over short periods.
Teradata, incorporated in 1979 and based in Mountain View, Calif., over its long life has mainly specialized in massively parallel processing of very large databases and in data warehousing, the storage of data more for deep analysis than for transactions.
