Provider of data analytics solutions Teradata launched its latest-generation Data Warehouse Appliance at its conference in San Diego this week. The fifth-generation appliance is a fully integrated system with double the performance and triple the data capacity of its predecessor.

Teradata's announcement came on the day Oracle unveiled its own business analytics machine Exalytics at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. Businesses use data analytics solutions to learn how changes to one part of the business affect its other parts.

Ed White, general manager of Teradata Appliances, said the company's latest Data Warehouse Appliance provides a faster, easier and greener analytics engine for a variety of business-intelligence applications.

In less than three years, the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance business has experienced brisk growth with hundreds of customers now running their analytics on Teradata appliances," he said.

The platform can be configured from two terabytes up to 315TB of uncompressed data per cabinet. The appliance can scan data at more than 38 gigabytes per second per cabinet.

Teradata's compression technology expands both storage capacity and performance of the solution. Its compression engine operats at the storage-block level and gets set automatically. In other words, data gets compressed as customers load it, without manual involvement.

In addition to better performance, the fifth-generation appliance, expected to be available in the first quarter of 2012, is more energy and space efficient, using up to 60% less energy and 50% less floor space for the same capability as the previous-generation solution.