Tag: data warehouse
Data Management Self Service is Key for Data Engineers–And Their Business
In a post-COVID-19 world, remote access has rapidly emerged as the new normal, for every organization. The shift to a remote-first world was already well underway. In fact, in 2019, 54% of U.S. workers reported working r Read more…
Cloud Data Warehouses and Cloud Data Lakes: There’s No Need to Choose
Particularly with the industry spotlight on Snowflake following its recent IPO, there’s no shortage of discussion right now around cloud data warehouses, cloud data lakes, and how the two overlap – or don’t. For ma Read more…
Dremio Officially a ‘Unicorn’ As it Reaches $1B Valuation
The explosion of data lake analytics in the cloud has been good for Dremio, which today announced the completion of a $135-million Series D round. The company’s valuation has more than doubled in the past year to $1 bi Read more…
Tackling Data Governance in a Multi-Cloud DW World
Microsoft Azure Synapse is the top destination for customers adopting cloud data warehouse over the next 12 to 24 months, followed by Databricks and Amazon Redshift, according to a new data engineering study released tod Read more…
DataRobot, Snowflake Expand AI Collaboration
DataRobot announced more late-round investments this week along with an expanded partnership with big data leader Snowflake Inc. that would extend the reach of its enterprise AI platform. A Series F funding round anno Read more…
Firebolt Touts Massive Speedup in Cloud Data Warehouse
The separation of compute and storage in the cloud allows data warehouse users to elastically scale up their clusters to process more data. But this brute force approach comes at an unacceptable cost, according to the Is Read more…
AWS Bolsters Its Lakehouse
Amazon Web Services wants you to create data silos to ensure you get the best performance when processing data. AWS also wants to help unify your data to ensure that insights don’t fall between the cracks. If you think Read more…
Improve Data Warehouse Productivity by 400 Percent
Just the Facts Ma'am My first thought was to look toward Sargent Joe Friday from the 1950’s TV show “Dragnet.” He used the phrase "All we want are the facts,” when questioning witnesses during his investigatio Read more…
Data Lake or Warehouse? Databricks Offers a Third Way
In the ongoing debate about where companies ought to store data they want to analyze – in a data warehouses or in data lake -- Databricks today unveiled a third way. With SQL Analytics, Databricks is building upon its Read more…
Investors Continue to Target Real-Time Analytics
Technology investors are betting emerging applications such as recommendation engines and supply chain logistics will further drive demand for real-time analytics. With more data in motion, cloud-native platforms that ca Read more…
3 Ways a Modular Data Warehouse Provides Scalable Analytics without the Big Price Tag
What happens to your planned analytics strategy when the world enters an economic downturn and the future is uncertain? Scaling back investments to maintain financial solvency can be a smart decision. However, abandoning Read more…
Snowflake Pops in ‘Largest Ever’ Software IPO
Snowflake’s stock more than doubled today during its initial public offering, and the volatility was so great that stock market officials briefly halted trading in what the mainstream press is calling the largest ever Read more…
CDO Stature Rises, But Data Strategies Fall Short
The role of chief data officers (CDO) is expanding as companies look to unlock value in their vast stores of customer and other data, Still, many CDOs still face a misalignment between goals and priorities, a new vendor Read more…
MLB Hits a Home Run with BigQuery Migration
The Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. may be delighting baseball fans with his energetic style of play during this COVID-shortened season. But there's plenty of excitement in the back office too, now that Major League Baseball Read more…
MongoDB Steps Up Game with MongoDB Cloud
First there was Atlas, MongoDB’s hosted database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering for public clouds. Now the company is launching MongoDB Cloud, an amalgamation of a range of MongoDB products and services that includes At Read more…
Credit Union Finds ‘Sound’ Use for Analytics Amid COVID-19 Chaos
When the state of Washington imposed stay-at-home orders in early March to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, it upended life for millions of people. Many businesses in the area simply closed, but thanks to a n Read more…
What Is a Data Cloud? And 11 Other Snowflake Enhancements
Snowflake has changed how the industry thinks about data warehouses with its cloud-native offering, which has been adopted by 4,000 organizations, including 2,000 in the last year alone. Now the company is taking the con Read more…
Sisu Seeks to Answer Why
In a typical business, analysts are tasked with using data to finding answers to questions. They’ll often use a BI tool to explore and query data stored in analytical database to figure out why something happened. Desp Read more…
PostgreSQL Gets a Parallel Processing Boost
Database vendors are rolling out frameworks for accelerating analytics on streaming data, including attempts to address growing pains associated with the scaling Postgres-based analytics. For example, Swarm64 is aimin Read more…
Cloud GPUs Aimed at Data Scientists
Core Scientific, an AI and cloud infrastructure vendor, is teaming with GPU-accelerated analytics specialist SQream Technologies to deliver what the partners tout as a “GPU Cloud for Data Scientists.” The goal of Read more…