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Feed: Actian. Author: Oliver Fasterling. For software companies developing new solutions in the cloud, the overall mission can be a daunting proposition. Cloud is an ever-evolving landscape, where one piece of technology may be popular one day, only to be replaced for something better a little while later. Then, there is a slew of tech jargon along with an endless list of acronyms which one must learn and constantly keep up in order to remain technologically adept and to have a chance, at a minimum, at contributing to a discussion with like-minded people.When software architects and leaders meet to discuss ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Over the past few years, we’ve seen an increasing trend of regional governments applying unique restrictions and controls on where data is stored and how it is managed for users and businesses in their jurisdiction.  The EU and Japan have recently imposed some strict rules about data export.A cloud data warehouse can be an effective tool in helping your company remain compliant with regional regulations by keeping data within the region it was created. Distributed Architecture of the Cloud Cloud infrastructure is different from on-premise data centers in that it is inherently designed for supporting ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. Most modern companies have fully embraced the cloud as the preferred place to host the applications that their businesses use.  Many new applications are “cloud-native” or are designed specifically for operating in the cloud, while many of the legacy applications that your company uses today may have been designed to run on hardware in your company’s data center, i.e., on-premise.  The good news is that even if you have legacy applications, most software providers are now offering cloud-hosted options for their solutions.Before you make the move to migrate legacy apps to the cloud, there are ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Nannette Lorenz-Pardorla. I am so thrilled to tell you about all about our first social event which put a little “spice” into everyone’s work week! We sponsored a best salsa and guacamole contest. We asked everyone to bring in their favorite salsa and guacamole recipe and let their fellow colleagues’ taste and vote for the best one in each category. There were several entries, and everyone got a chance to place their vote anonymously. We all had multiple “taste testing’s”, just to make sure the vote chose was correct.  We decorated our café area and blew up balloons which came in cactus and avocado shapes; red balloons, mini maracas and a table runner completed the look.  The winner for best salsa went ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. Managing and analyzing heterogeneous data is a challenge for most companies, which the oncoming wave of Edge Computing-generated datasets has only exacerbated. This challenge stems from a rather large “data-type mismatch” as well as how and where data has been incorporated into applications and business process. How did we arrive here?At one time, data was largely transactional and Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) and Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems handled it inline, and it was heavily structured. Primarily, Relational DataBase Management Systems (RDBMS) managed the needs of these systems and eventually evolved into data warehouses, storing ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Jeff Veis. Data warehouse modernization. Sounds like a no-brainer. Move your Netezza, Teradata or Exadata data warehouse that likely runs on obsolete, proprietary hardware to a shiny new system that runs in the cloud, costs a fraction of what you were paying before and can be turned on and off like a light switch.Is it that easy? That simple? Let’s discuss… Data warehouse modernization projects come in many flavors. Some are straightforward database upgrades or tweaks to data models. Others are more ambitious such as redesigning your company’s primary data platform. Modernization may involve incorporating previously untapped features, such as vectorized ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Rachel Coffman-Bueb. Last month we introduced our new Employee Spotlight series. This series was born with the belief that your life experiences make you the unique person you are today and influence what you bring to the amazing culture here at Actian. We have chosen to feature those incredible individuals with a blog post dedicated to them. For this month’s Employee Spotlight, I had the privilege of sitting down with our new HR Benefits and Compensation Specialist, Alanna Taber. This may come as a surprise to all of you, especially those who personally know someone in HR, ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. Most IT leaders will agree: the cloud is the right place to host and operate many of their applications and systems. What isn’t quite as clear for these leaders is “which cloud” they should use.The answer is “There is no right answer.” Each company (and application) has its own unique set of technical and operating needs. They will drive the decision about whether it should run in one of the public cloud environments or in a company’s private cloud or on a 3rd party’s cloud environment (e.g., hosted and consumed as Software as a Service ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Your company has competing data needs. You need IT systems optimized for real-time transaction processing to serve as the engine for digitally transformed business processes. You also need your data aggregated and optimized for analytics to generate both real-time insights and perform deep data-mining activities. It can be difficult to balance these competing needs in your solution architecture if the only approach you are considering is “find a middle-of-the-road solution that minimally satisfies both needs.”As one might imagine from the way that approach is phrased, it is a compromise solution, one in which both needs ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Jeff Veis. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “it’s not the destination it’s the journey”. Unfortunately, this wise saying is not nearly applied as often as it should be to the contemporary topic of data warehouse modernization project design and execution. The result, thousands of data warehouse modernization projects unnecessarily end up in failure. Gartner’s Adam Ronthal, suggests that over 60% of all database migrations fail. That is, a migration is started, then starts slipping, overruns the original budget by multiples, until finally management pulls the plug. Time is lost, money wasted, and careers wrecked.  How do ... Read More