Category: Actian

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. If you are still using point-to-point integrations to move data through your IT environment, then you are spending too much money and missing the opportunities a modern data hub can provide. A data hub is a centralized service that connects all of your IT systems, whether they be Web applications, IoT devices, SaaS solutions, or core business platforms, such as CRM or ERP. A data hub manages the connections to each of the systems and orchestrates the data flow amongst them.Gartner provides an interesting perspective on what a data hub is- “This is not a ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Steffen Klaebe. Moving applications to the cloud, users can benefit from various opportunities the cloud environment offers.One of these opportunities is the availability of a seemingly infinite amount of resources, enabling users to match their requirements by scaling their application according to their load. Nevertheless, load may change over time and does not always follow a predictable behavior. Actian Avalanche will therefore offer a new elastic scaling feature, allowing users to quickly respond to requirement changes by scaling the system in a fast way without a shutdown. This solution brief provides a peek under the hood of ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Alex Hanshaw. I recently had the privilege of presenting at Insight Technology’s db tech showcase in Tokyo.The night before my presentation my colleagues and I had been invited to a meal with one of our partners. At the end of the meal, one of my colleagues was thanking our hosts for a wonderful meal and in flawless Japanese went on to say, “Your dreams are our dreams”. I joined the Actian team as a sustaining software engineer. As such, helping our customers has always been central to my work. Every bug fix not only helped the customer ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Emma McGrattan. This is the fourth and final installment of an in-depth blog series examining the findings of the recent Actian Datacast 2019: Hybrid Data Trends Snapshot. The survey (which polled 303 IT professionals with influence or decision-making ability at companies of 250+ employees) identified four key trends which were illustrated in the Datacast Infographic.Our weekly blog series has explored each of these trends in greater detail. You can find the complete blog series by visiting Data @ Work, the official Actian blog Hybrid Environments In the prior three blogs from this series, we looked at i) ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Emma McGrattan. Looking around at Strata this morning I observe that the folks here fall into three broad categories: The t-shirt wearing techie who proudly wears their favorite logo’ed t-shirt e.g. “Data is the New Bacon” and who is here to reassure themselves that there isn’t much that they don’t know about what is happening in the data ecosystem. Then there’s the golf-shirt wearing tech professional.  They either have booth-duty later, or they’re here on a mission to find a solution to a data problem at their company. And finally there’s the jacket/ blazer wearing corporate executive.  ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Why a modern time-series capable database can simplify yet enhance time-series data analysis There are many Operational Technology (OT) environments within manufacturing, oil and gas, engineering research, and countless other industries where complex equipment, machinery, and networks of sensors and devices generate time-series data.  These time-series streams range from sensor data representing Pressure, Volume and Temperature to Video streams for machine vision and surveillance.  Initially, these streams were thrown away or sampled at low, periodic rates.  As time-series streams increased in volume and local data processing incorporated multiple feed reconciliation, OT engineers began to build ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Dahye Huh. If you are like most companies that currently use Teradata appliance, you may be exploring options for a new, modern data warehouse that is a better fit for today’s cloud-centric world. But don’t make the migration journey an afterthought. Teradata is a big, complex system full of rich, unique SQL syntax that predates standardization. And migrations of terabytes of data, thousands of tables and views, specialized code and data types, and other proprietary elements do not happen overnight. Given the dependencies and complexities involved with data warehouse migrations, it’s no wonder that many projects fail ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Why your data historian is a poor substitute for a modern time-series capable databaseManaging your company’s data and digital assets effectively is essential. During the era of digital transformation, data provides the fuel for your business to accelerate and move forward, becomes more agile, and enables your leaders to make sound business decisions. What defines “managing data effectively”? It is a robust process to collect, aggregate, catalog and maintain all the data your day-to-day operations and interactions in the marketplace create. Legacy approaches to data management Data management has changed much during the past few ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems seem to be everywhere and for a good reason. AI represents the next generation of computing capabilities. It is leveraging the speed and scale of cloud computing to deliver not only high-speed automation but also continuous learning and adaptation capabilities that can finally match the pace of change in the natural environment. As AI capabilities and AI algorithms mature, organizations are developing new business, consumer and governmental usage scenarios that are revolutionizing how humans interact with machines.Autonomous AI services The AI evolution is more than capabilities. AI algorithms are also migrating ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Jack Mardack. Following is the third installment of our in-depth blog series examining the findings of the recent Actian Datacast 2019: Hybrid Data Trends Snapshot. The survey, which polled 303 IT professionals with influence or decision-making ability at their companies of 250+ employees, identified four key trends which were illustrated in the Datacast Infographic. Our weekly blog series explores each of these four trends in greater detail. You can follow along with the blog series by visiting Data at Work, the official Actian blog.Barriers to success In our last two blogs we looked at how to fully ... Read More