Big Data

The term Big Data describes data sets that are too large or complex to be processed by traditional data processing methods. Big Data is also used to describe data sets that need to be processed in their entirety to gain…

Cloud Analytics

Cloud analytics is a term used to describe cloud-based computing to uncover insight from stored data in private or public clouds. Cloud computing is the fastest-growing segment of the database market, and modern data repositories are almost exclusively cloud-based. Cloud-computing…

Cloud Elasticity

The term cloud elasticity refers to the ability of a cloud service to grow and shrink resources to match the demand from an application workload. The dynamic elements of an elastic cloud are compute CPUs, memory and storage. The provision…

Cloud Storage

Data storage can reside in a data center on-premises or a data center hosted by a cloud service provider or cloud vendor and accessed over a network. It is offered as a subscription model, typically charged monthly by terabytes consumed…

Connected Cloud

A connected cloud provides multiple functions under a single management umbrella. In a data platform context, these services would include data analysis, storage and data integration. The Avalanche Cloud Data Platform offers these services. In a multi-cloud enterprise, it is…

Data Science

Data Science is a discipline that focuses on the strategies and techniques used to gain meaningful insights from large volumes of data. What is a Data Scientist? The best way to define data science is to consider what data science…

Streaming Data

Streaming data is the process by which a continuous flow of data from single or multiple sources is processed in near real-time. Depending on the time criticality or server resource constraints, data streams can be processed after small intervals as…

What is Data at Rest?

When data is not being transmitted between locations, it is considered to be at rest. In its rawest form, data is stored in digital form (represented as binary 0 and 1 values) on storage media, which can reside on-premise, on…

What is Multi-cloud?

Multi-cloud refers to a business that uses cloud computing resources on multiple public clouds such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and private clouds. Almost all large enterprises use multiple public and hybrid cloud providers today. Why Multi-cloud? Below are some…

Data in Motion

The term “data in motion” refers to data that is actively being processed or transformed or moving from a source device, sensor, storage device, or data communications node to a target location. The target location can be an intermediate node…

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