The retirement of Technical Debt has never been more relevant. The great recession, and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly dampened the ability and willingness of enterprises to address an ever-growing amount of Technical Debt. Too often,...
The pandemic triggered broad changes in the way businesses operate. In the process, it also exposed serious gaps in disaster recovery (DR) planning. Cloud-based DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solutions can close those gaps and provide improved protection for your essential...
“You’ll be on cloud nine!” In the hills of eastern Kentucky, literary idioms are a huge part of the language. Examples like “You’re barking up the wrong tree”, “eating high on the hog”, and “hill of beans” can be heard regularly. In those same hills I grew up,...
I often use the expression "Cloud as IT Oxygen" - but, what do I mean by such an expression? The global catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world and unleashed a set of forces driving change across all areas of human...
Since I started my career about 25 years ago, data warehousing and the analytics tools it supports have come a long way. From the early days of relational database management systems (RDBMS) to the launch of high-performance analytics appliances and the emergence of...
When you read my earlier blog, “Netezza is making a comeback”, from this blog series, did you think to yourself, “Where did it go? I never left.” If you have ever had a chance to use Netezza in your data estate for warehousing, high-performance INZA push down...
While Cloud adoption continues to move forward at a decent velocity, enterprises are not taking full advantage of the powerful set of opportunities that a transition to Cloud opens up. The achievement of “CloudIT”, the new state of IT built on a foundation...
Over the years, we have our seen our customers’ Cloud journeys take many different paths. We have also witnessed the rapid evolution of big box Public Cloud providers, as they became the place to whom most organizations turn to begin dabbling in the great Cloud...