Enterprise Data Cloud™ Initiative

Greenplum’s Enterprise Data Cloud™ (EDC) Initiative represents a bold new vision for bringing the power of self-service to data warehousing and analytics. Watch the Webcast now >

Greenplum’s EDC™ Initiative is focused around transforming how companies think about storing, managing, and analyzing data within the enterprise. It comprises 3 core elements:

1. The Platform – Greenplum’s EDC™ platform.

• a. Self-Service provisioning
• b. Elastic scale
• c. Massively parallel

2. The Methodology - New agile and pragmatic best practices that capitalize on the ability to leverage extreme scale and self-service infrastructure.

3. The Ecosystem – Working with customers and partners to bring to market new capabilities and standards that build on top of the EDC™ platform.

The importance of the EDC™ initiative is that it focuses not only on addressing the sheer volume of data that exists within an enterprise, but also in creating the self-service infrastructure necessary to support the 100s to 1000s of diverse uses of that data across the organization.

Greenplum’s EDC™ initiative provides the path to go beyond a single warehouse and support the provisioning and operation of 10s, 100s, or 1000s of warehouses on one or more common pools of hardware. At the highest level it is built around three key enabling features:

1. Extreme Scale and Elastic Expansion – The ability to handle massive scale and dynamic growth or shrinking of the volume of data.

2. Self-Service Provisioning – Provide business analysts with self-service interfaces to create new marts and warehouses in minutes, and allow them to access and combine data from any other marts within the EDC into their newly created mart.

3. Massively Parallel Analytic Processing – Enabling each mart or warehouse in the EDC to leverage the massively parallel SQL, MapReduce and analytical processing of the Greenplum database

Greenplum’s EDC™ initiative is only possible because the Greenplum Database is a software technology with capabilities that go beyond what is possible from a proprietary hardware based Data Warehouse Appliance. Greenplum’s EDC™ initiative will enable self-service provisioning from consolidated resource pools of 100s or 1000s of servers - leveraging the latest in commodity hardware, and the ability to run in the enterprise on physical or virtual hardware or deploy out to the public cloud.