Use Case: Cloud Data Lab If a department, data scientists, or business analyst, wants to explore new analytics solutions and applications, a hybrid cloud environment easily enables a data subset from the production environment to be compartmentalized in a cloud data lab serving as a workspace sandbox for testing new ideas.

For example, if sales leadership wants to explore data on how account executives are selling as it relates to campaign data from marketing, they can easily spin up a cloud data lab, access only the information that’s needed, and connect to production data when necessary. Teradata workload management ensures that sales team users don’t impact the performance experienced by others.

Use Case: Cloud Disaster Recovery Another case for a hybrid cloud architecture is ensuring the ability to continue business operations in the event of a disaster. A hybrid cloud setup makes it easy for an organization to have redundant capabilities between its on-premises data center and a second cloud-based system.

One benefit of using the cloud for disaster recovery is the ability to only pay for what is used. Customers can cost-effectively back up production data as often as desired and only pay for storage. If the primary system goes down, cloud compute resources may be spun up and analytic queries and applications quickly redirected to the cloud disaster recovery system.