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WANdisco LiveAnalytics and Databricks: Running Cloud-based Analytics While Ingesting Data from Hadoop On-premises
When we introduced LiveMigrator in June, our first customers were delighted. They were able to move petabytes of unstructured data in a single pass from on-premises data centers to the cloud without blocking. Their applications could continue to access data in on-premises environments, even as their data was moving to the cloud. We had solved a problem...
3 Reasons to Avoid Manual Hadoop Migration to Cloud
Big data has found a natural home in the cloud. In the cloud, leading companies are taking full advantage of cheap, scalable storage and the flexibility that comes from powerful cloud analytic platforms. With such compelling advantages to migrating big data to the cloud, why is there business risk for organizations to adopt it today? Manual Migration i...
Migrating Big Data to the Cloud with WANdisco LiveMigrator, ADLS Gen2, Databricks and Delta Lake
The rise of the cloud has seen the most fundamental shift in IT in many decades. When deciding where new capabilities will be developed and operate, the cloud is now the first choice for most enterprises. This is increasingly true for big data. The accelerating consolidation of and diminishing opportunities for Hadoop vendors is directly related to the...
Everything Is Distributed—Here’s How to Put Down Roots
Distributed computing has created a fundamental shift in the way that humans relate to the rest of the world. Think about your everyday life. Did you check on your bank account or investment portfolios? Did you email a colleague in a different office? Did you play a game or read a news article on your phone today? Our minds are so-often occupied that we...
Don’t Let Data Gravity Drag You Down
The universe is something that never ceases to surprise us. In all of the years that humans have walked planet earth, there’s always something new that catches humanity off-guard—like the opportunity to see a black hole for the first time, in April 2019. This was a moment that fascinated the team at WANdisco. It made us sit back and self-reflect. No mat...
Emerging trends in disaster recovery for data lakes
In this Q&A, Katherine Sheehan, Senior Solutions Architect at WANdisco, and DISCOtecher, WANdisco’s Director of Product & Channel Marketing, discuss current trends in disaster recovery and high availability for on-premises and cloud Hadoop data lake deployments. DISCOtecher: In recent years, we’ve seen Hadoop mature and business adoption increas...
Exploring Gartner’s multi-cloud computing point of view
How do you keep your data consistent across an entire multi-cloud architecture? In the first of two blogs on Gartner’s Technology Insight for Multicloud Computing report, Paul Scott-Murphy, VP of Product Management for Big Data and Cloud at WANdisco, chats with DISCOtecher, Director of Product and Channel Marketing at WANdisco, about the challenges of o...
How to achieve a disruption-free migration to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Paul Scott-Murphy, VP of Product Management at WANdisco, and DISCOtecher, Director of Product and Channel Marketing at WANdisco, discuss how clients can get to ADLS Gen2 without downtime for their critical systems. DISCOtecher: Can you please share why WANdisco is so excited about the ADLS Gen2 GA announcement? Paul: The general availability of ADLS G...
WANdisco 2019 Predictions: Data tech gets realistic
In 2018, the tech scene boasted extensively and, as it turns out, prematurely, about the potential of revolutionary technologies like blockchain and AI to finally deliver us into the future. With the hindsight of the real-world applications of these technologies, however, 2019 will take on a more realistic approach to the infrastructure needed to make t...
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