Users today are asking ever more from their data warehouse. This is resulting in advancements of what is provided by the technology, and a resulting shift in the art of the possible. As an example of this, in this post we look at Real Time Data Warehousing (RTDW), which is a category of use cases customers are building on Cloudera and which is becoming more and more common amongst our customers.
How Hitachi Vantara’s global IT team is enabling the “new normal” and delivering at speeds previously thought impossible.
One of the really big trends that we're seeing in the analytics space, is the move towards talking about the analytics experience. Analytics experience is about supporting or triggering decisions and transactions. This is a shift from what I would describe as the passive use of analytics, where people were expected to use dashboards and reports that didn't add a lot of value to their transactions or decision making. The difference sounds subtle, but it's really quite profound.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has not halted despite the global pandemic. If anything, COVID-19 has only accelerated the adoption of Industry 4.0, leading businesses across industries to use Internet of Things (IoT) technology and Big Data in a more sophisticated manner.
As we covered in part 1 of this blog series, Snowflake’s platform is architecturally different from almost every traditional database system and cloud data warehouse. Snowflake has completely separate compute and storage, and both tiers of the platform are near instantly elastic. The need to do advanced resource planning, agonize over workload schedules, and prevent new workloads on the system due to the fear of disk and CPU limitations just go away with Snowflake.
