Cloud solutions have little to do with the solutions we have on-premises. Cloud solutions are built with ambitious and monstrously huge goals in mind, so, often it feels like no previous technology has been reused. In addition to some understandable concepts, like...
Almost two years ago I was a part of the BI team in an organization that decided to move to the Cloud. As a first step they followed the lift and shift approach, so they moved their Data Warehouse and all the existing processes into the Azure environment almost...
Recently I watched a webinar organised by Snowflake, it was called "Data Warehouse Automation, Ingestion and Industry Leading Analytics with Snowflake and Qlik". In the past I could never find time for webinars, and it's amazing how life can give you opportunities to...
On a daily basis I have the benefit of working with organisations who are somewhere on a journey with data. Working with big or small, flush or practically bust, petabytes or megabytes, organisations see some innovative solutions deployed. One thing I often see...
We use MongoDB as part of our daily life at OptimalBI, and we love it. We did notice that there's not really a Wellington user community, so we figured we'd better fix that! We're pretty happy to announce that there's now a MongoDB Meetup in Wellington! ...
Whilst waiting for an invite to play with the preview version of AWS Data Lake formation I thought that I would get started with seeing how I could consume the data from a data lake and play with the Redshift Spectrum product from Amazon Web Services. Redshift...
AWS re:Invent has just happened, and with it a huge number of announcements across the whole AWS portfolio. As usual there were so many announcements that its a bit hard to keep track of them all, so I thought I would pull out most of the announcements related to BI...
Amazon Workspaces have been around for a while now, so I thought I'd give them a go and see what's what. What is this Amazon Workspaces thing then? Amazon Workspaces is Amazon/AWS virtual desktop as a service offering. It allows IT Administrators to provision desktops...
Azure has a Platform as a Service solution called Azure SQL Database, it's when you have a database in a cloud and never worry about the infrastructure or anything else, almost like magic. But does it mean that database administrators have nothing to do anymore? Let's...
With an ubiquitous spread of the cloud technology it is hard not to pay any attention to Machine Learning as a service solutions which provide the end users with a platform for machine learning experimentation and its integration with a variety of business...