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Migrate a petabyte-scale data warehouse from Actian Vectorwise to Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that allows you to process and run your complex SQL analytics workloads on structured and semi-structured data. If these concerns were not addressed, the customer would be prevented from growing their user base.

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Has the Data Warehouse Had Its Day?

BI-Survey

Data architecture is a topic that is as relevant today as ever. It is widely regarded as a matter for data engineers, not business domain experts. Statements from countless interviews with our customers reveal that the data warehouse is seen as a “black box” by many and understood by few business users. But is it really?

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Getinge’s digital transformation shows scaling and adapting in equal measure

CIO Business Intelligence

Last year, for instance, the company launched a connected operating table and a solution called Servo Twinview, a digital ventilator twin where you can follow patient data by computer, smartphone, or tablet without having to disturb the patient unnecessarily. It’s a difficult balancing act.

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5 misconceptions about cloud data warehouses

IBM Big Data Hub

In today’s world, data warehouses are a critical component of any organization’s technology ecosystem. The rise of cloud has allowed data warehouses to provide new capabilities such as cost-effective data storage at petabyte scale, highly scalable compute and storage, pay-as-you-go pricing and fully managed service delivery.

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TCO Considerations of Using a Cloud Data Warehouse for BI and Analytics

According to the study conducted by Wakefield Research in 2021, only 22% of the data leaders surveyed have fully realized ROI in the past two years, with most data leaders (56%) having no consistent way of measuring it.

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Modernizing the Data Warehouse: Challenges and Benefits

BI-Survey

But what are the right measures to make the data warehouse and BI fit for the future? Can the basic nature of the data be proactively improved? The following insights came from a global BARC survey into the current status of data warehouse modernization. What role do technology and IT infrastructure play?

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Build an Amazon Redshift data warehouse using an Amazon DynamoDB single-table design

AWS Big Data

This approach comes with a heavy computational cost in terms of processing and distributing the data across multiple tables while ensuring the system is ACID-compliant at all times, which can negatively impact performance and scalability. These types of queries are suited for a data warehouse. This is called index overloading.