December 17, 2019
Big Data Analytics in the Cloud for Today’s Distributed and Diverse DataLast 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…
November 21, 2019
AtScale: A Better SSASMy co-founders and I started AtScale to change the trajectory of the analytics tools of our day. As consumers of tools like Microstrategy, Qlik and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) at Yahoo!, we were often disappointed by the complexity of…
October 18, 2019
Should You Build or Buy Your Universal Semantic Layer?It only makes sense that organizations are investing in universal semantic layers. Providing analysts and business users universal access to data that can be understood by their BI tool of choice has become mission-critical. And that’s exactly what a universal…
October 2, 2019
How Adaptive Analytics Can Optimize Cloud Migration for the Healthcare IndustryThe 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…
September 10, 2019
5 Essential Tips for Successful Cloud Migration (and how to avoid the “Gotchas”)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…
September 6, 2019
The Four Cloud Transformation Capabilities of an Adaptive Analytics FabricAn 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…
September 5, 2019
Cloud Transformation: The Next Data Frontier for Business Intelligence, Machine Learning and AIIntelligent data virtualization will unlock your enterprise shared data intellect. Cloud transformation is happening. The shift to the cloud will drive $1.3T in IT spending by 2022 (Gartner) and spending on public cloud services will total $277B by 2021, a…
August 26, 2019
Intelligent Data Virtualization: The Silver Bullet in Next-Gen Big Data GovernanceThe winners in today’s data-driven economy will be the organizations that can quickly, accurately, and consistently glean profitable business insights from their enterprise data warehouse. This means that robust data governance and analysis is one of the most valuable abilities…
August 14, 2019
How Intelligent Data Virtualization Helps Orchestrate Security Policies Across Your Hybrid CloudData virtualization uses the concepts of abstraction to decouple data-consuming clients from the means of materializing the answers to their questions. Abstraction is the most powerful technique we have in computer science. As users demand more sophisticated software, and business…
July 26, 2019
Cloud Migration Challenges: Removing RoadblocksEnterprises 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…
