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Updated December 8, 2020

For practical reasons, it is increasingly difficult—and sometimes impossible—to perform large-scale analytics with an on-premises data warehouse. Scaling physical hardware to the needs of your customers is so cost intensive that you might well find yourself running a data center…

Updated August 4, 2020

In a recent webinar, Mark Stange-Tregear of Rakuten Rewards and I discussed how to  control costs and manage your cloud data warehouse environment. Mark made some excellent suggestions for how to better manage your Snowflake environment.  A lot of the…

Updated July 20, 2020

Want to improve the ROI on your Snowflake Cloud data warehouse? Join the experts from Rakuten Rewards and AtScale on a live webinar this Thursday, July 23rd and learn how. In an hour, they will explain how you can reduce…

Updated October 7, 2019

Since its founding in 1997, Rakuten has helped shape the way people shop online, offering cash back, deals and shopping rewards on the world’s largest selection of products and services. With a mission to help its employees get insights from…

Updated July 3, 2019

Snowflake is a great cloud native data warehousing platform. Combine Snowflake with AtScale and you get an analytics platform that can handle the biggest data with the most complex analytics at scale. AtScale can turn your Snowflake data warehouse into…

Updated May 6, 2019

Every new enterprise solution introduces a multitude of problems. For the enterprise, the solution that has introduced the most complexity to the business has been cloud transformation. According to IDG, 73% of organizations have at least one application, or a…

Updated April 25, 2019

For businesses that with deal petabyte-scale data environments representing billions of individual items such as transactions or material components, the capacity to rapidly analyze that data is vital. Storing data in an on-premise warehouse is an increasingly unpopular option due…

Updated April 9, 2019

When AtScale implements support for back end EDW’s, we spend a lot of time—the majority, actually, working on implementing features that take advantage of all the unique capabilities the EDW has to offer. This probably comes from our genesis in…

Updated March 12, 2019

We are often asked by customers and prospects: what is the best cloud data warehouse technology for handling analytics workloads? The reality is that all cloud data warehouses have different and competitive price and discount models, performance characteristics depending on…