Continuing to Deliver on Our Hybrid Vision: Actian Data Platform on Microsoft Azure

Today we are excited to announce the release of Actian Data Platform on Microsoft Azure. Azure is growing significantly as a platform in the enterprise space and becoming the de facto choice for retail analytics. Hence, making Actian Data Platform available on Microsoft Azure has been a priority for us.

With this release, Actian Data Platform is now available on Microsoft Azure, AWS, and on-premises, delivering on our hybrid and multi-cloud vision. We have added new features to this release, like independent scaling of compute and storage resources. This is particularly appealing to those customers who have large amounts of data which is growing quickly but may not need compute to scale at the same pace. In addition, it will also benefit customers with known compute peaks like retail experiences during holidays or during promotional periods.

As an added incentive, for a limited time, we are also offering $0 cloud storage on Azure for customers of Actian Data Platform (some T&Cs may apply).

True Platform That Analyzes Data Where it Naturally Resides 

With the addition of Microsoft Azure, Actian’s customers now have another choice as to where they deploy their analytics. For those with data lakes that span multiple clouds and on-premises, Actian provides a unifying solution that brings analytics to all of that data from a single pane of glass.  When we engage with prospects, they typically tell us that they wish to simplify their data ecosystem and bring the analytics capabilities to the data, rather than duplicating all of their data assets in a cloud data warehouse environment. Our approach is not only simpler and cheaper, it also offers greater security.

High-Performing Analytics That Thrives Under Demanding Scenarios

Actian has a long history of delivering record-breaking analytics performance, and Actian Data Platform on Azure is no different. It offers significant performance advantages over the competition and that advantage grows with data volumes, user volumes and query complexity. Actian Data Platform is designed to support large numbers of concurrent users and when you couple this with the fact that query execution times can be measured in milliseconds, it’s the ideal platform for organizations that wish to equip every business decision-maker in the organization with access to all of the data required to make the most informed decision possible.

The Actian Data Platform’s ability to handle mixed workloads means that data discovery, ad-hoc querying, batch reporting, and real-time data updates can all be happening simultaneously without the need to reconfigure the environment for each different use case and without any one of these use cases feeling the impact of the others.

Try Actian Data Platform With Your Data

You can try out Actian Data Platform for free for 30 days and experience for yourself the high performing engine of Actian Data Platform. I’d love to hear your feedback, so don’t be shy!

About Emma McGrattan

As SVP of Engineering at Actian, Emma leads research and development for the Actian Vector, Actian Vector in Hadoop, Actian X and Ingres teams. A recognized authority in DBMS and Big Data technologies, Emma is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences. Emma has recently celebrated over 25 years in Ingres and Actian Engineering. Educated in Ireland, Emma holds a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering degree from Dublin City University.