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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

This article was originally published in Forbes. As the cloud wars are heating up, industry-cloud is becoming a focal point. Capturing entire enterprise workloads is the biggest challenge ahead for cloud vendors. It might very well decide the fate of the Hyperscalers’ cloud business. Surprisingly, data warehouse migrations are critical to an industry-cloud strategy.  Wait,

This article was originally published in The New Stack In the age of public cloud, shouldn’t vendor lock-in be a thing of the past? Every other discipline in IT has been transformed in the past 20 years by virtualization. From storage and compute to networking, virtualization has revolutionized the space. And then there’s database. Database

This article was originally published in ZDNet, written by Tony Baer Teradata has long distinguished itself, not simply by its scale or performance, but by an advanced SQL engine that was designed for handling extremely complex functions such as recursive queries and implicit joins, unique syntax, and custom logic for parallelizing workloads. The result is that Teradata has long positioned

This article was originally published in ComputerWeekly. The days where Hyperscalers competed primarily for their customers’ compute and storage needs are numbered. Over the past years, enterprises started valuing deeply integrated services much more than the mere infrastructure-for-hire of the early days of public cloud. As enterprises adopt the public cloud, managing data has emerged as a

This article was originally published in Forbes The numbers don’t seem to add up. Cloud vendors report new highs with every earnings report and underline the prospects of what is arguably the hottest growth market in IT. Yet only 5% of enterprise IT spending is going toward the cloud, so far. Something is holding IT leaders back.   Moving the enterprise to the cloud is probably the single most critical challenge for IT leaders. But to grasp the challenge one must understand

This article was originally published in Integration Developer News. It’s no secret that enterprises are looking to replace their existing data warehouse with modern technology in the public cloud. IT leaders have a difficult decision to make – what is the best way to transition? They can either virtualize the existing data warehouse onto the