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A Panoramic View of Cloud Analytics: The Insight You Need to Grow Your Business

Download this white paper to learn about what capabilities are available in the cloud, what organizations are looking for when moving to the cloud, and the challenges to be aware of during cloud analytics migrations.


IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Data and Content Technologies 2022 Predictions

IDC's 10 predictions representing expected trends with the greatest potential impact on deployment and use of data, content, and analytics technologies over the next few years.


IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2022 Predictions

Every year IDC identifies the key external drivers that will influence businesses in the coming years.


Activate Your Data Governance Program with a Data Catalog

In this e-book, learn about the practice of non-invasive data governance and how you can create an active data governance program quickly and effectively with a data catalog.


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Logical Data Fabric to the Rescue: Integrating Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Data Hubs

This whitepaper discusses the benefits of using data virtualization to create data fabrics.


13 Essential Data Validations for Trustworthy Data in the Cloud

Automating 13 essential data validation checks will immediately engender trust in the cloud and lake.


Processing Modern Data Pipelines

This white paper describes the technical challenges that arise when building modern data pipelines and explains how these challenges can be solved by automating performance with near-zero maintenance.


Log Analytics for CloudOps: Making Cloud Operations Stable and Agile

This whitepaper explains what CloudOps and log analytics mean, why traditional pipelines for log analytics break down, and how to streamline or re-architect these pipelines.


Gartner Hype Cycle for Data Management, 2021

This report helps data and analytics leaders plan ahead and make informed decisions relative to emerging and maturing data management technologies.


The Future of Data

This Raconteur Future of Data report explores the opportunity for companies to craft their own data strategies.


Best Practices for Managing Unstructured Data

A modern data management platform that can effectively incorporate unstructured data offers valuable advantages.


Moving from On-Premises ETL to Cloud-Driven ELT

Read this white paper to learn how you can maximize the value of your data pipelines by using the right type of transformation method for each situation and workload.


Deep Dive on the Cloud Data Platform

This Deep Dive report by Eckerson Group takes a look at four cloud data platforms and defines the index-driven data lake platform in the context of evolving cloud data platforms


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Total Cost of Ownership to Build and Operate an ELK Stack

This whitepaper offers a path to estimate the true cost of building and maintaining a do-it-yourself production ELK stack.


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2021 Benchmark Report: Log Management and Analytics

Log management and analytics remains a dynamic field. Companies who value log data and invest in capturing data will harness insights that propel their businesses forward.


Faster Together: Actian Avalanche on Google Cloud Platform

Affordable, direct access to the data that users and business processes really need has long remained an unchecked box—until now.


Better Together: Actian Avalanche on Google Cloud Platform

Download this white paper to learn how Actian Avalanche on Google Cloud Platform can improve outcomes for your organization.


Google Cloud Reference Architectures for Data-Driven Application Builders

This reference architecture e-book is designed for application builders looking to leverage the Actian portfolio and the Google Cloud Platform.


Accelerating Business Analytics Performance in 2021 and Beyond

Read this white paper to learn how technologies such as columnar storage, massively parallel processing, and in-memory processing are allowing organizations to evolve past the limitations of the traditional database and data warehouse.


Unified Analytics Warehouse: A Guide for Investing in Unified Analytics

Should you invest in a data warehouse or a data lake?


Accelerating Data-Driven Decision Making: 5 Ways to Turn Crisis Mode into Growth Mode

The COVID-19 pandemic is certain to herald long-term changes to the demands placed on data analytics infrastructures.


DataOps Dilemma: Survey Reveals Gap in the Data Supply Chain

The survey associated with this report focused on identifying the limiting factors slowing down the data supply chain as it relates to the overall DataOps methodology of the organization.


2021 Analytical Data Infrastructure Market Study (Excerpt)

The goal of this report is to help organizations understand priority use cases and preferences for features/capabilities for analytics platforms.


SaaS API Checklist: 10 "Must-haves" for SaaS Companies

So what makes a good API? The same thing that makes products outstanding – design.


11 Best Practices for Migrating to a Cloud Data Lake

Here are 11 best practices you can follow to help ensure a more successful, streamlined, and seamless data lake migration to the cloud.


A Buyer’s Guide to Data Warehousing in the Cloud

Read this paper to explore cloud data warehouse options and understand the important factors you should consider when selecting technology.


Maximize Tableau Investment with Exasol

Using Exasol as the database for Tableau can provide more speed, scale, and flexibility for your Tableau deployment.


Your Checklist to a Successful Data Platform Migration

Before you embark on your next data and analytics project, see if you can check these three things off your list.


Guide to the Lakehouse: Connecting Data and Teams to Bridge the Information Gap

Learn how a data lakehouse enables data engineers, data scientists, and other data users to share data, collaborate more effectively, and deliver more business value faster.


Data Platform Migration: Your Guide to Successful Legacy Data Platform Migrations

Download this guide today to make sure your data and analytics project starts on the right foot—and you’ll get to that promised land of the cloud.


Automated Data Lineage: The Cornerstone of Effective DataOps

This paper focuses on the imperative role of automated data lineage in bridging the gap between technical and business stakeholders and outlines what leadership should look for in a lineage solution to fuel DataOps success.


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From ETL to ELT: The Next Generation of Data Integration Success

In this e-book we review pivotal moments in data warehousing history to understand the changes in ETL.


Microsoft 365 Security in the Cloud

Start protecting your data, devices, and passwords today so that you can focus on growing your business with confidence.


Step-by-Step Cloud Evolution with Microsoft Azure

In this e-book, we illustrate the iterative process of cloud adoption by following the IT transformation journey of a fictitious company.


The Rackspace Technology Guide to Protecting Your Business with Microsoft 365

You must continuously protect your organization against a multitude of potentially costly cyberattacks.


Defend, Protect, and Secure with Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Together, Microsoft and Rackspace Technology have provided a few notes on how you can improve security and productivity with Microsoft 365 Business Premium.


Seven Steps to Get Started with Microsoft Azure

Getting started with Microsoft Azure can be easier than you imagine.


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Security Log Analytics: Spotting and Stopping Bad Guys at Scale

Security log analytics helps security operations teams improve the cost and scale at which they predict, prevent, and mitigate rising threats.


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The Threat Hunter’s Handbook: Using Log Analytics to Find and Neutralize Hidden Threats in Your Environment

Cybersecurity leaders are engaged in a difficult arms race against the threat actors who seek to attack their organizations.


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Automated Data Governance 101

Data science and governance programs can, if implemented properly, reinforce each other’s objectives.


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Immuta Data Engineering Survey: 2021 Impact Report

This report highlights the current and future state of data engineering and DataOps.


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Building Interactive Data Apps with ThoughtSpot

This e-book explores the journey of seven organizations that have reinvented the analytics experience for their customers with search-driven embedded analytics.


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Dashboards Are Dead

In this e-book, you’ll learn why data leaders are increasingly turning away from analytics dashboards.


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Four Reasons Your Metadata Is Broken

Changing the way you think about metadata can make it faster and easier to make sense of data. Download this white paper to understand four common reasons your metadata is broken.


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Governed Self-Service Analytics at Scale

Download this white paper to learn the four key steps to successfully deploying governed self-service analytics across your organization.


Samsung Case Study

When Samsung’s team needed to understand upgrade preference across demographics, device profiles, carrier loyalty, and more, they needed answers, fast.


A Modern Data Architecture

With this guide, discover how to build a stack that empowers everyone on your team to get answers fast, build better products, and move your data strategy to a new level of maturity.