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February 2022

How To Extract Data From AWS Redshift Through SQL With Ease

SQL is one of the most widely adopted domain languages (i.e., used by over 65 percent of data scientists and analysts), which can help you access and interpret valuable data from AWS Redshift. As a modern-day decision-maker, AWS Redshift and SQL are vital components that drive your SDK. Through PostgreSQL, you can make data-based decisions with Amazon Redshift while minimizing the overall cost of your operations.

What Is the Difference Between AWS Redshift and RDS?

AWS Redshift and RDS are two different database products that AWS offers. If you're not sure which one is right for you, there are a few essential questions to answer before making your decision. This article will explore the differences between these two products and help determine which one would be best for your needs. We'll also take a look at how much it costs to use each product so that you can compare them side-by-side and see what's most affordable for your business.

Cloud Management for the Modern Workload

The road to the data-driven enterprise is not for the faint of heart. The continuous waves of data pounding into ever-complex hybrid multicloud environments only compound the ongoing challenges of management, governance, security, skills, and rising costs, to name a few. But Hitachi Vantara has developed a path forward that combines cloud-ready infrastructure, cloud consulting and managed services to optimize applications for resiliency and performance, and automated dataops innovations.

Building a Flexible Hybrid Cloud for Today and Tomorrow

Although many enterprises are at varying stages in their cloud journeys, most are adopting distributed mixes of on-premises and public cloud environments in order to maintain certain data and applications close by, while making others more accessible and available online. With such distributed cloud networks, core tenants of the enterprise, such as management, scalability and security, become increasingly challenging. There is a path forward, however.

Unlocking New Revenue Models in the Data Cloud

Today’s applications run on data. Customers value applications not only for the functionality they provide, but also for the data itself. It may sound obvious, but without data, apps would provide little to no value for customers. And the data contained in these applications can often provide value beyond what the app itself delivers. This begs the question: Could your customers be getting more value out of your application data?

Rebranding DevOps as Cloud Engineering

In this episode of Kongcast, Matt Stratton, a staff developer advocate at Pulumi, explains the history of configuration automation, the world of cloud engineering and how it compares to DevOps. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for the latest new episodes. Viktor: So before we jump to this one, tell us a bit about yourself. Matt: I spent about two decades working in traditional technology operations. I was a sysadmin.

Why is AWS Redshift Used? Integrate.io Has the Answer

Amazon uses a lot of adjectives to describe its cloud data warehouse: AWS Redshift is "fast," "simple" and "cost-effective." It's also popular. GE, McDonald's, Bosch, Coca Cola, and countless other brands, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, have added Redshift to their tech stacks. But why is AWS Redshift used? And why is it the world's No.1 cloud data warehouse? Below, learn more about what Redshift does, how it does it, and why it could be a great fit for your organization.

Make Your AWS Data Lake Deliver with ChaosSearch (Webinar Highlights)

When CTO James Dixon coined the term “data lake” in 2011, he imagined a single storage repository where organizations could store both structured and unstructured data in their raw format until it was needed for analytics. But without the right storage technology, data governance, or analytical tools, the first data lakes quickly became “data swamps” - morasses of data with no organizational structure and no efficient way to access or extract meaningful insights.

Executing Data Integration on Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift says it executes data operations ten times faster than other enterprise data warehouses because of a hardware-accelerated cache called Advanced Query Accelerator (AQUAD). It also claims three times better price-performance than other similar technologies. Statements like these are what make Redshift an attractive option for companies that want to push data into a warehouse for analytics.

8 Benefits of Setting Up a Data Warehouse in AWS Redshift

AWS Redshift is a managed data warehouse solution from Amazon Web Services. It’s part of their popular cloud-based computing platform and used by many familiar enterprises, such as Lyft and McDonald’s. Data warehouses are storage and analytical solutions for large amounts of data. They take data gained via ETL or ELT services like Integrate.io or AWS Glue and turn it into useful information and datasets that businesses can analyze and utilize for strategic insights.

A Beginner's Guide to Amazon Redshift

Data. Big data is everywhere in your business and odds are good that you have petabytes of it. From your customer's purchasing information to financing data, you need to make sure that you are properly managing your data. This means working on recording, organizing, and analyzing it. As the old expression goes, "Junk in, junk out." If you don't properly manage your data, you'll have nothing but junk. This means that you have to store your data and datasets.

Make the leap to Hybrid with Cloudera Data Engineering

Note: This is part 2 of the Make the Leap New Year’s Resolution series. For part 1 please go here. When we introduced Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE) in the Public Cloud in 2020 it was a culmination of many years of working alongside companies as they deployed Apache Spark based ETL workloads at scale.

10 Ways to Maximize Your Amazon Redshift Experience

Amazon Redshift is one of the leading big data management services that any business can use to extract, transform and load data for various business uses. Amazon’s AWS platform is designed to help with that by providing access to Amazon Redshift with scalable AWS services. Redshift is complex, which gives you a lot of customization options but can also be harder to optimize without help. Here are 10 Amazon Redshift performance tips to maximize your Amazon Redshift experience.

Top 7 AWS Redshift ETL Tools

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse solution that allows you to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. While Amazon Redshift is one of the industry's top data storage solutions, many considerations need to be made before using AWS Redshift. One of the primary elements of any cloud-based storage solution is knowing how to transfer and secure data properly. Here, we will break down how to properly move data to and from the AWS Redshift platform.

Amazon Redshift to Snowflake Data Integration

Amazon Redshift, part of Amazon Web Services, is typically the final destination of many data integration projects. Data-driven companies move data from various locations to Amazon's user-friendly, high-performance cloud data warehouse so they can run that data through business intelligence (BI) tools such as Looker and Zoho. This process helps these companies gain unparalleled real-time insights into their organizational workloads so decision-makers can improve workflows.

How to Set Up Amazon Redshift on AWS

In a digitally powered economy, having access to data can help companies navigate market changes, perform customer analytics and adjust their strategy to meet demand. Unfortunately, most of the data company’s generate are unstructured and siloed across various departments in the organization. According to Forbes, 95 percent of businesses cite the need to manage unstructured data as a problem for their business.

11 Redshift Tips for Startups

There has never been a better time to start a startup, thanks to all of the advancements in communications and data management technology. Data engineering and utilization are at the core of every new startup that plans on disrupting and dominating its markets. Fortunately, Amazon Redshift can make the data management aspects of running a business much easier. Here are 11 Amazon Redshift tips for startups.

Failover Across Clouds

In this extended demo, Sahaj Saini shows you how Snowflake can replicate data and account metadata (like users, roles, compute resources, resource monitors, etc...) and failover these over across cloud providers on demand. For the fictional company, Style Me Up, he'll demonstrate how to set up replication with failover groups and trigger a failover and redirect client applications.

AWS' Newest Official Partner: Speedscale

Speedscale is excited to join the AWS Partner Network (APN), the global community of partners who leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build solutions and services for customers. AWS Partners are uniquely positioned to help businesses take full advantage of all that AWS has to offer and accelerate the journey to the cloud. As part of this achievement, Speedscale has completed the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR).

Top Cloud Data Migration Challenges in 2022 and How to Fix Them

We recently sat down with Sandeep Uttamchandani, Chief Product Officer at Unravel, to discuss the top cloud data migration challenges in 2022. No question, the pace of data pipelines moving to the cloud is accelerating. But as we see more enterprises moving to the cloud, we also hear more stories about how migrations went off the rails. One report says that 90% of CIOs experience failure or disruption of data migration projects due to the complexity of moving from on-prem to the cloud. Here are Dr.