Category: Datawarehousing

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Saunak Chandra. By Mitesh Shah, Sr. Cloud Product Manager at Denodo TechnologiesBy Saunak Chandra, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWSOrganizations of all sizes are facing an increasingly complex data landscape. Data now resides in multiple on-premises systems and across cloud environments, and applications need to consume data regardless of its location. The growing numbers and volumes of data sources are increasingly difficult to manage, and enterprises are grappling with emerging business requirements such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), cloud integration, and more. The need for greater agility and faster time-to-market is clear, ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. What is topping your list of considerations in your migration to the cloud? If Geographic Architecture isn’t near the top, then it should be.What is a Geographic Architecture you may ask? That is the geographic placement of the analytic ecosystem elements in your geographic space. The bigger question you should ask is why should you care?Pull out a copy of your current Analytic Ecosystem Architecture and take a look. Chances are, like most companies, your architecture is centrally located and interconnected by large bandwidth, low latency Local Area Networks (LANs). Look at how many data connection lines interconnect ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. How does a major technology services company equip itself to compete in the digital age – and provide services so outstanding that they can significantly advance the business prospects of their customers? All while reducing complexity, cutting costs, and tightening SLAs – in some cases, by 10x or more? For one such company, the solution is to deliver real-time, operational analytics with Kafka and MemSQL. In this company, data flowed through several data stores, and from a relational, SQL database, into NoSQL data stores for batch query processing, and back into SQL for BI, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Redshift now supports cross-instance restore to allow you to restore Redshift snapshots to clusters that are different sizes or running different node types. This simplifies snapshot restore workflows to support your evolving use cases. You can change instance type and count based on compute resources, storage capacity and cost requirements of your specific workloads. For example, you can cross-instance restore a snapshot of your production dense-compute cluster with small instances into a cluster with powerful large instances to serve more demanding workloads, or to a lower-cost development cluster. Once a cluster is restored, you can resize ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The new monitoring dashboard in the new Redshift Console makes it easier for administrators to monitor all of their Redshift clusters from a single page by unifying all relevant information such as availability status, cluster and query performance, events, and alarms. This lets administrators quickly understand activity associated with their workloads. The new console simplifies the management of Redshift clusters by streamlining user experiences and reducing the number of clicks for everyday operations. You can view your queries associated with workload management queues and correlate them with cluster performance.  The new console reduces the time needed to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon Redshift is the most popular and the fastest cloud data warehouse. It includes a console for administrators to create, configure, and manage Amazon Redshift clusters. The new Amazon Redshift console modernizes the user interface and adds several features to improve managing your clusters and workloads running on clusters.The new Amazon Redshift console provides the following benefits: Visibility to the health and performance of clusters from a unified dashboard. Simplified management of clusters by streamlining several screens and flows, and reducing the number of clicks for several everyday operations. Improved mean-time-to-diagnose query performance issues by ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Tony Darnell; Installing MySQL on Oracle Cloud’s “Always Free” Compute Instance November 14, 2019 Leave a comment At Oracle’s OpenWorld 2019, Oracle announced an Oracle Cloud Free Tier, which includes Oracle Cloud services that will always be free – as long as you use them or keep them active. Most other hyperscale cloud vendors offer a free 12-month trial before they start charging you, so to see Oracle provide a “truly free” service is really great. And the free services are not just limited to one or two choices – you get a wide variety of free ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; Last week, over 130 data professionals tuned in to hear Kai Wolffram, Head of Analytics at TUI Group, share his lessons learned from TUI’s journey to the cloud. During the webinar, Kai spoke about the challenges he and his team encountered when trying to find the right home for their data. He also talked about the technical requirements they would need to consider to extract, load, and transform their data for analytics. TUI, the largest tour operator and leisure company in the world, is well known: it has 70,000 employees ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pamela Fowler. Learn about the new way to engage Support Services at ActianWe are delighted to introduce the “Live Chat” feature, which was embedded in “Actian Communities” on November 11, 2019. It is a complete chat solution that enables instant chat support with Actian subject matter experts. Each chat request will be directed to the right subject matter expert, based on the Top-Level Product you choose when initiating the chat. Note that in the chat widget, you will see only the Top-Level Products that you own, instead of a long list of all Actian products. Answers can ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Many of you have probably read the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyoaski and Sharon Lechter. It advocates the importance of financial literacy and building wealth by investing in assets. We can apply the same concept to data science and ask the question, “What is a rich data science model and what is a poor data science model?” My answer would be that a rich model is one which makes money for your company and a poor model is one which does not make money for your company So how do we make a rich data science ... Read More