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Data Virtualization: Virtual Data Warehouse Déjà Vu?
Back in the 1990s, I was an industry analyst covering data warehousing and business intelligence at Giga Information Group (subsequently acquired by Forrester Research). It continues to surprise me how little these technologies have...
Database Migration to the Cloud: Things You Should Consider
Did you know that 63% of organizations are actively migrating data from on-premises databases to the cloud? So says an IDC survey, and another 29% are planning to start a database migration within 3 years. Carl Olofson, IDC’s Vice...
Does FHIR Fully Address Healthcare Data Interoperability Silo Challenges?
Let’s face it, information withholding is common in many industries, but it’s been especially rampant in the healthcare space. Payers and Providers have avoided scrutiny for the cost of care delivered and the reimbursements they...
Developing your Data DNA
In a world where everything is changing too quickly, the evolution towards agile, interoperable data services is a welcome change. Data is now able to be delivered as a service, without the need for costly investments in data centers...
Hybrid Cloud Data Warehouses: Don’t Get Stuck on One Side or the Other
Hybrid clouds seem to be the way the wind is blowing. According to the Enterprise Strategy Group, the number of organizations committed to or interested in a hybrid cloud strategy has increased from 81% in 2017 to 93% in 2020.…...
Bloor Spotlight Highlights How Actian’s Ingres NeXt Strategy Avoids Common Modernization Pitfalls
Digital transformation requires use of the latest technologies. However, as you probably already know, modernizing a mission-critical database and the applications that interact with it can be risky and expensive, often turning into a...
Vector 6.2 Delivers Even Faster and More Secure Analytics
Actian Vector is a vectorized columnar analytics database designed to deliver extreme performance with a high level of security. But who wouldn’t want analytics that are even faster and more secure? For those who do, the new Vector 6.2...
Using a Healthcare Data Analytics Hub to Derive More Efficient and Effective Insights for Value-Based Care
Last August I wrote a blog about the data at the Beating Heart of Healthcare and introduced the concept of the healthcare data analytics hub. Frequent readers will remember that a healthcare data analytics hub provides a unified,...
Performance testing production workloads for Ingres and Vector
One of the main concerns of Ingres and Vector customers whose systems need to undergo a significant change, such as major version upgrades, OS migration, major software releases, increased volumes of usage, etc, is how to properly test...
Will Cloud Data Warehouses Really Help You Cut Costs?
If the first question you consider when thinking about a cloud data warehouse involves how much money you will save by moving your on-premises solution to the cloud, you may not like my answer: There’s no guarantee that you will…...