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April 2021

Reasons Why Cloud Migrations Fail & Ways to Succeed

Organizations are moving big data from on-premises to the cloud, using best-of-breed technologies like Databricks, Amazon EMR, Azure HDI, and Cloudera, to name a few. However, many cloud migrations fail. Why? And, how can you overcome the barriers and succeed? Join Chris Santiago, Director of Solution Engineering, as he describes the biggest pain points and how you can avoid them, and make your move to the cloud a success.

How a journey to the cloud helps a fintech leader deliver quality products

Securrency is a technology products company that delivers a complete suite of security and compliance tools. Their complex suite of financial technology needs to have top performance and security. Currently, Securrency has 50 developers working across their multiple software products and this software requires thorough testing. They have a dedicated QA team that does manual and automated testing.

Future of Data Meetup: Exploring Data and Creating Interactive Dashboards in the Cloud

In this meetup, we’re going to once again put ourselves in the shoes of an electric car manufacturer that is deploying a recently developed electric motor out into their new cars. We’re going to show how to explore some data that has been previously collected through various different sources and stored into Apache Hive within a data warehouse, with the goal of tracking down a specific set of potentially defective parts. We’ll then take the results of this data exploration and create an interactive dashboard that presents our results in a visually appealing way using a BI tool that’s integrated right into the same data warehouse.

Lightweight Virtualization: the Container Ecosystem and Firecracker MicroVMs for Serverless

Virtualization is a core component of cloud computing and the key technology to optimize usage of hardware's resources. While it has been around for decades, new innovations continue to improve its efficiency and performance for modern workloads. In this blog post, we provide a brief overview of virtualization and its history as well as explain how Firecracker and lightweight virtualization are fueling modern deployments.

Which Cloud Database Platform to Choose for Your Applications

While a vital component of any app's stack is the database, managing a database is challenging and hard work. Not only do you need to set up, maintain, scale, and patch databases, but also you need to create strong backup policies, ensure sharding and replications. Long story short, managing a database is time-consuming and requires a dedicated and skilled team, which is why a major trend for managing databases is DBaaS, or Database as a Service.

How to Monitor Azure API Management Performance with the Moesif Plugin

Azure API Management (APIM) is a powerful platform that enables you to publish and scale APIs while ensuring they are secured. One of the great features of Azure APIM is that you can add plugins and transforms to your APIs without any code change or restarts. These capabilities are deployed using XML Policies which are a collection of statements.

5 Success Stories That Show the Value of Enterprise Data Cloud

What’s the fastest and easiest path towards powerful cloud-native analytics that are secure and cost-efficient? In our humble opinion, we believe that’s Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). And sure, we’re a little biased—but only because we’ve seen firsthand how CDP helps our customers realize the full benefits of public cloud.

ThoughtSpot Success Series #1 - Introduction to ThoughtSpot Cloud

Introducing the ThoughtSpot Success Series! Want to expand your knowledge of ThoughtSpot? Want to learn some great tips and tricks? Join ThoughtSpot's Customer Success team and other users like yourself as we discuss various topics in our new Success Series. We'll provide a high-level overview of everything you need to know to get started with ThoughtSpot Cloud.

Who are the best SaaS providers? Those that drink their own champagne

Today, technology drives organizations. We rely on it, which is why a misstep in selecting technology partners and their SaaS solutions can impact an organization in regrettable ways. It can impede your ability to scale in a graceful manner. It can slow down your journey of automation. It can even introduce risk related to compliance or security, depending on the solution. Whenever you decide to buy, a proper assessment of any SaaS provider is crucial.

Hybrid Cloud and Strategic Data Use Accelerate State, Army Missions

Some of the most forward-operational elements of the United States federal government are making strides in leveraging data through hybrid cloud environments—and they’re constantly evaluating progress and recalibrating their approaches along the way. At agencies including the Army and the State Department, work is well underway to find ways of employing emerging technologies that build on cloud services and data optimization to realize new levels of effectiveness.

Transform your business with cloud, search, and AI-driven analytics

Despite huge investments in data and analytics over the last two decades, many companies are still struggling with how to become truly data-driven. What are data leaders doing at the organizations that have figured it out? In this white paper, DATAcated Academy's Kate Strachnyi explores four key strategies for critically evaluating your entire data and analytics stack and systematically removing the barriers that exist between their business users and business-critical insights.