Category: Azure

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. And why is it better than a Data Lake or an Analytics Hub? In the opening installment of this blog series—Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data Hubs: Do we need another choice?  I explore why simply migrating these on-prem data integration, management, and analytics platforms to the Cloud does not fully address modern data analytics needs. In comparing these three platforms, it becomes clear that while all of them meet certain critical needs, none of them meet the needs of business end-users without significant support from IT. What we in fact need is a platform ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. In this third and last part of the series on Actian Vector in Hadoop (VectorH), we will cover how the VectorH file format supports the performance and efficiency of our data analytics platform to accelerate business insights, as well as some of the other enterprise features that can help businesses move their Hadoop applications into production. Part one of this series showed the huge performance advantages VectorH has over other SQL on Hadoop alternatives, while part two explored the benefits of the richer implementation of SQL and the ability to perform data updates in VectorH.The ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Emma McGrattan. Today we are excited to announce the release of Actian Avalanche on Microsoft Azure. Azure is growing significantly as a platform in the enterprise space and becoming the de facto choice for retail analytics. Hence, making Actian Avalanche available on Microsoft Azure has been a priority for us.With this release, Actian Avalanche is now available on Microsoft Azure, AWS, and on-premises, delivering on our hybrid and multi-cloud vision. We have added new features to this release, like independent scaling of compute and storage resources. This is particularly appealing to those customers who have large amounts ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Adam Luciano. Actian Avalanche on  Microsoft Azure launched this week with a free cloud storage offer.  This post will walk you through getting set up on Avalanche on Azure. You must first have an Actian account as a customer of Avalanche or have signed up for a free trial.  After you log in to the Avalanche service, you will see the below screen in the center of the Avalanche console:  To create your first warehouse, click the green Create your first Cluster button, which will load the below screen to get you set up:  All fields depicted above are required fields. After filling ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Adam Luciano. Today we announced the availability of Actian’s industry-leading Avalanche Cloud Data Warehouse Managed Service on Azure. Actian Avalanche is the only hybrid data warehouse solution on Azure and provides significant performance gains at a lower cost compared to alternatives. Learn why Avalanche on Azure makes sense for your business.We are also pleased to announce a special offer of $0 cloud storage on Azure for customers of Avalanche.    Details of the offer:                              You will receive up to 10TB Free Cloud Storage with your Avalanche ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; We are surrounded by ever more diverse sets of data. Much of this data is already distributed into the cloud, hosted by a rapidly expanding family of SaaS applications. Data sources underpin the flux of business opportunities, and are therefore in a constant dynamic state of change.In order to compete effectively, we have to be able to make sense of all that data quickly and reliably in the cloud. Data processing requires software to run rules and logic. Which poses an interesting conundrum…Software is required, but having software is not actually a business objective. The ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Asir Selvasingh. Today, we are announcing the availability of Elastic integrations for unified observability of Spring Boot applications on Azure. You can seamlessly ship Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic, instrument Spring Boot applications, and monitor every step of your cloud journey. You also get a holistic view across Spring Boot applications and other logs and metrics in your cloud and on-premises environments. Over the past two years, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Happy new year everyone! Since 2022 has started, we have released new deployment pipelines features, that enable plenty of new ways to work with deployment pipelines and leverage its advantages for a more productive release process. Power BI automation tools extension for Azure DevOps During October, we announced that deployment pipelines REST APIs are generally available. Now we are releasing the first official Power BI extension for the Visual Studio marketplace- Power BI automation tools. Using the extension, it will be easier than ever to automate your deployment operations ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . As we start the new year, we wanted to share a few highlights of customer, product and developer community news from SingleStore in 2021. It has useful information for learning about distributed SQL databases, data-intensive applications and the outcomes developers are achieving, so you may want to bookmark this post. To learn more about SingleStore company milestones this past year, check out our CEO Raj Verma’s post.In 2021, we added the most new customers ever in the company’s history, expanded use significantly with existing customers and celebrated some customers’ IPOs. The new customers are innovators ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. In talking with Microsoft customers, I have found that most are not aware that Microsoft has created industry clouds (see Microsoft Industry Clouds). So I wanted to use this blog to briefly explain what they are and how they may be useful to you. To clear up a lot of confusion, despite the name, these are not clouds they are separate for Azure. Rather, they use the Azure cloud along with existing tools and products customized for a specific industry and placed within the Azure cloud (think “add-ons”). These industry clouds package together ... Read More