March 6, 2019
The True Cost of Doing Big Data…the Old Fashioned Way…Despite the challenges associated with data warehousing, enterprise IT leaders have accepted it as a necessary evil of deriving value from information within Hadoop and other Big Data ecosystems. How much does it cost to create data warehouses or datamarts…
Is it October already? It’s hard to believe that October is here. It feels like only a few days ago that we released AtScale 5.0 and AtScale 5.5. Both releases contained a number of great new features that I was…
March 4, 2019
What is a Universal Semantic Layer? Why Would You Want One?I am a software engineer and I like abstractions. I like abstractions because done correctly an abstraction will factor complexity down to a level where I don’t have to spend any brain cycles thinking about it. Abstraction lets me work…
If you're a sucker for great market data like I am, you must have heard of Mary Meeker. Mary is partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. She's known in the Valley as a specialist in digital businesses and has…
In 1992, Arbor Software shipped the first version of Essbase. Which stands for Extended Spreadsheet Database. In 1998, Microsoft shipped Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. The time of multi-’dimensional’ databases had come into full being and almost 30 years later…
At the beginning of 2018 we predicted that cloud adoption would be one of the key strategic trends that would help enterprises succeed with Big Data. Managing on-premise data infrastructure requires a huge effort. And, as people become more adept…
Research shows that the average enterprise has at least 6 to 10 Business Intelligence tools. Microsoft Excel, the world's most prevalent analysis tool is used by 1 Billion users. Other companies like Tableau, Qliktech, MicroStrategy or Business Objects have had…
January 25, 2019
AtScale Enables Enterprises to Optimize Usage and Save on Costs with AWS Cloud StorageIn recent years, enterprise organizations have opted to migrate to or establish data lakes on cloud technologies to lower costs and increase performance. Cloud solutions’ pay-per-use pricing model and ability to scale on-demand, enables organizations to effectively analyze large data…
December 6, 2018
IBM and AtScale Agree: There are 34 Billion Reasons Why Enterprises Should Move Data to the CloudThere is a turf war going on today among technology providers to move their enterprise customers to the cloud. IBM believes so strongly that their future success resides in their ability to get enterprises to the cloud that they just…
