Miami Twp. company buys fourth tech firm this year

Teradata Corp. has purchased its fourth data tech firm this year, closing on a deal today to acquire RainStore, a privately held company specializing in online big data archiving on Hadoop.

The majority of RainStor employees will remain in San Francisco and Gloucester, U.K. RainStor will be integrated into Teradata’s operations, supporting the big data analytics business, according to a release from the company.

The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

This acquisition strengthens Teradata’s enterprise-grade Hadoop solutions and will enable organizations to add archival data store capabilities for their entire enterprise, including data stored in OLTP, data warehouses, and applications, the company said in the release.

“The addition of RainStor underscores Teradata’s commitment to support customers as they transform their organizations into data-driven enterprises,” said Scott Gnau, president, Teradata Labs. “The new archival capability will help customers cost-effectively and efficiently address their data archiving requirements using Hadoop.”

Teradata, a Miami Twp.-based company, purchased Revelytix, Hadapt, and Think Big Analytics earlier this year.