Click to learn more about author John Morrell. In today’s fast-paced world, organizations must constantly adapt and innovate to maintain their competitive advantage. Cloud Computing has revolutionized the technological landscape, allowing companies to “rent” time on online services without having rapidly-obsolescing hardware on-site. Nowhere is this clearer than the realm of Data Analytics, where a […]
What is Data Deduplication and How Can it Help Reduce Cloud Costs?
Click to learn more about author Gilad David Maayan. Data deduplication, or “dedupe” for short, is a compression technique that aims to remove duplicate information from a dataset. Deduplication frees up a lot of storage particularly when it is performed over large volumes of data. How It Works At a high level, the deduplication process […]
The Difference Between a Traditional Data Warehouse and a Cloud Data Warehouse
Click to learn more about author Gilad David Maayan. A Data Warehouse is a central repository of integrated historical data derived from operational systems and external data sources. As a central component of Business Intelligence, a Data Warehouse enables enterprises to support a wide range of business decisions, including product pricing, business expansion, and investment […]
Cloud: The Future of the Data Warehouse
Click to learn more about author Neil Barton. In the past, implementing a Data Warehouse was like walking a tightrope between Data Quality and business agility. When they were first created, on-premises Data Warehouses were hugely expensive and inhibited agility. Building a Data Warehouse took years and cost millions, meaning only the wealthiest companies could […]
SolarWinds Study Finds Cloud Computing is Top Transformative Technology
by Angela Guess A new press release states, “SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today released the findings of its annual state-of-the-industry study. The new study reveals the state of today’s IT landscape: IT professionals are continuing to prioritize investments in cloud computing as they grapple with how to leverage […]
World Backup Day: Celebrate with Disaster Recovery
Click to learn more about author Matt VanderZwaag. It’s no coincidence that World Backup Day falls the day before April Fool’s Day. The founders of the initiative want to impress upon the public that the loss of data resulting from a failure to back up is nothing to laugh at. From mission-critical business information to personal photos and videos, data has become […]
Comprehensive Cloud Portfolio Delivers Full-Stack Functionality and SaaS Transformation
“Application performance and the digital experience of users have a direct and significant impact on business success and digital transformation,” said Christoph Pfister, Executive Vice President of Products at SolarWinds. “With the stakes so high, the ability to monitor across the three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and tracing—is essential.” Don’t assume that understanding performance is […]
Wasted Cloud: Are You Utilizing the Cloud to Its Full Potential?
Click to learn more about author Pete Johnson. I recently overheard someone say, “The public Cloud was supposed to be simple and cheap, but it’s neither.” The problem with this statement is the premise. Nobody ever promised that the public Cloud was either simple or cheap, let alone both at the same time. The promise […]
Moving to the Cloud – One Valuable Step at a Time
Click to learn more about author Neil Barton. If you’ve ever caught a little league game filled with eight year olds playing baseball, chances are you’ve seen a certain type of parent on the sideline. Not content with simple encouragement, they bellow specific instructions to their child to do things that, frankly, the world’s greatest […]
Are You Paying Too Much for Your Database Management System? Making Sense of Licensing Structures
Click to learn more about author Franco Rizzo. A flexible licensing model allows a company to invest more in the innovative ventures that will drive revenue, and less in core business processes. If you ask someone to name a handful of highly innovative companies, Apple is almost certainly one of the first to spring to […]