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Analytics solutions company Teradata has launched Teradata Database for Microsoft Azure, with the goal of offering clients more cloud-based options for Teradata’s software. The combo of Teradata’s data warehouse software with Azure public cloud services will help users avoid the costs associated with installing and maintaining physical infrastructure, the companies said in a statement.

“Teradata believes that customers deserve excellent performance and scalability, regardless of deployment choice. Expanding our cloud deployment options with leading public cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure allows us to provide unprecedented flexibility of deployment with the same full-featured Teradata software everywhere,” said Chris Twogood, VP of product and solutions marketing at Teradata. “Just as critical, however, is orchestration software that ensures data, workloads, queries and users can be spread across a heterogeneous ecosystem that works together as a unified whole. Teradata’s hybrid cloud solutions provide both.”

Teradata’s recent Data Warehouse Survey found that more than 90% of its customers plan on using hybrid environment by 2020, mixing on-premises and cloud services, and that 85% of Teradata customers are looking to leverage some of their analytics “as a service.” The Azure agreement is a nod to those expectations.

“The most successful vendors in the hybrid cloud space will offer broad, cross-platform support that empowers companies to use the cloud when and where it makes sense, as much or as little as they want,” said Doug Henschen, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research. “Organizations taking the hybrid-cloud deployment path are solving problems, gaining flexibility and realizing both expected and unexpected benefits. These companies come to see hybrid deployment as invaluable to their respective data warehousing strategies and are investigating additional use cases, including data exploration and predictive analysis in the cloud.”

Teradata Database on Azure will offers under-an-hour provisioning and is pay-as-you-go, the companies explained. “In this data-driven world, interest in analytics is at an all-time high,” said Steven Guggenheimer, corporate VP and chief evangelist for Microsoft. “Microsoft Azure customers recognize the value they derive from data and are actively seeking analytic solutions, such as Teradata Database on Azure, that enable constant innovation while also optimizing resource utilization and simplifying management oversight.”