Kristin Diodonet

This article appeared on eWeek.com In a recent earnings call, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, made a very curious concession when asked about the bank’s ambitions to modernize its infrastructure: “If we can spend $2 billion more and get to the cloud tomorrow, I would do that in a second.” How could an organization – […]

This article appeared on solutionsreview.com Gartner just revealed that the three Hyperscalers are now the largest database vendors. Arguably, no other enterprise software has spawned such an extensive industry. What is even more curious, after over half a century of commercial databases, new database companies keep popping up with impressive regularity, and there is no indication

This article appeared on Forbes.com Ask any IT leader why their department is still operating database technology from the last millennium, and you’ll most likely hear about how much they wish they could do away with those systems. As a matter of fact, they might have tried for years already but ran aground on the

Database migrations are brutal but necessary” claimed John Foley in a recent edition of his cloud database report. The necessity is undisputed. However, the question is whether they really must be brutal? One thing is certain, database migrations can quickly turn into either career boosters — or career killers.  Across the entire industry, IT leaders

Is it time to replace your legacy data warehouse with modern technology? The push of enterprises worldwide to become cloud-native is the primary catalyst to switch databases. Yet, database migrations have become known as the bane of the industry. So, it is no surprise that IT leaders are holding back.  Database virtualization may just be

This article appeared on eWeek.com We’re experiencing an uncanny renaissance. Databases, long derided as antiquated, are suddenly the darling of the industry. Years after pundits declared databases all but dead, a new breed of startups has captured Wall Street’s attention. However, IT leaders struggle to migrate their existing workloads to these systems efficiently.   The vendor

Moving data (and databases) to the cloud can be stressful. Datometry’s CEO, Mike Waas, explains what you need to think about, explains the pros and cons of three different approaches, and offers best practices to make the move less taxing. Upside: There’s been an increasing movement of data management from on-premises environments to the cloud. What

This article was originally published in www.solutionsreview.com. IT leaders all over the world are currently looking to replace their legacy data warehouses. Cloud databases are promising to roll up the field in the next few years in a way we haven’t seen before. However, there’s a little wrinkle: truly replacing one of these old systems