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Cloud Analytics Optimization

Updated July 24, 2020

There are preconceived notions of what life will be like for someone when they switch to the Cloud. While there are many indisputable advantages, have your umbrella ready. Why do I say this? In this blog post, I share five…

Updated July 2, 2020

One of the most important concepts any business must consider when investing in technology infrastructure or applications is ROI (return on investment). Capital is one of the most precious commodities an organization has - and often one of the most…

Updated April 8, 2020

Have you either chosen Google BigQuery as your cloud data warehouse platform or you are considering doing so? The good news is that Google BigQuery is a great data warehouse platform that I highly recommend. However, there are some major…

Updated March 16, 2020

Big Data is a Competitive Advantage Big data plays a critical role in modernizing analytics. Analytics are conducted at a much more granular level than ever before because we can capture and save much more data than ever before. As…

Updated January 15, 2020

91% of businesses today are facing persistent barriers to digital transformation and are looking to make major investments in security and compliance, multi-cloud, self-service analytics and artificial intelligence. Only too aware of operating in a 'transform or die' landscape, performance…

Updated December 17, 2019

Last week, my good friend David Menninger and I discussed the state of Big Data analytics and its future in our webinar “How Distributed, Diverse Data has Transformed Big Data Analytics”.  As the Research Director at Ventana, David highlighted some…

Updated October 2, 2019

The healthcare industry is enthusiastically undergoing digital transformation and embracing hybrid cloud architectures. However, cloud migration in the healthcare industry comes with significant challenges.  If there is any disruption to the migration process, or any compatibility issues between old and…

Updated September 10, 2019

What is Cloud Migration? Cloud migration is the process of moving data and application hosting infrastructure from on-premise data centers to a public cloud hosting service like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure. Migrating your data center operations…

Updated September 6, 2019

An adaptive analytics fabric has the following four capabilities when bridging the gap between users and data: 1 - Bring all data (silos) to users’ fingertips IT organizations today have common server orchestration tools to manage their on-premises and cloud…

Updated July 26, 2019

Enterprises are moving to the cloud, but this move to become more data-driven is not without major growing pains along the way. According to CMSWire, in fact, in 2019, only 31% of organizations consider themselves data-driven, compared with 37% just…

Updated July 26, 2019

Cloud migration is a reality. The cost savings, increased agility, and economic benefits are just too high for organizations to ignore. Enterprises are increasingly migrating, lifting, shifting and re-engineering to seize the promised benefits of the cloud. According to Gartner,…

Updated July 22, 2019

Many organizations experience pain working out the early stages of the cloud migration process due to the complexity of data platforms, the lack of capable data orchestration tools, and the requirement to maintain proper security and governance for data—whether it…