April 1, 2020

OLAP, MOLAP, ROLAP? COLAP? Why Should BI Care? Which Should You Choose?

OLAP is the acronym for OnLine Analytical Processing. Database researcher, E. F. Codd, coined the term "on-line analytical processing" (OLAP) in a whitepaper published by Computerworld in 1993 that set out twelve rules for analytic systems. The term OLAP was…

Posted by: Carole Gunst

March 26, 2020

Data News Roundup – Thursday, March 26th

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to impact all aspects of life and is a common thread throughout many of the recommended stories in our Data News Roundup for March 26th. While we continue to navigate this challenging situation, the AtScale…

Posted by: Kayla Chiara

March 19, 2020

Data News Roundup – Thursday, March 19th

We’ve been sharing the latest and greatest on how big data and analytics are constantly developing and shaping the tech world for about a month now. However, given the uncertain climate we’re all living through, the AtScale team thought it…

Posted by: Kayla Chiara

A Letter to Our Customers As We All Face COVID-19

As we all navigate through the effects of COVID-19 with our families, friends, businesses and communities, we at AtScale are committed to maintaining a high degree of support for all of you. Our hearts go out to anyone who's been…

Posted by: Chris Lynch

March 18, 2020

3 Surprises in the 2020 Big Data & Analytics Maturity Survey

A new, independent survey by AtScale, Cloudera and ODPi, a Linux Foundation project, delivered some surprising results. In particular, there were 3 takeaways that are noteworthy which every enterprise should keep in mind when working through their future data strategy.…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

March 12, 2020

Data News Roundup – March 12th, 2020

Welcome to this week’s edition of AtScale’s “Data News Roundup” for Thursday, March 12th, 2020. With all the news that populates the exploding big data industry, we aim to be your go-to source for the important industry highlights throughout the…

Posted by: Kayla Chiara

March 11, 2020

How to Learn More about AtScale and Google BigQuery

Last week, Google announced that Google Next ‘20 would be going digital this year. They said: “The health and wellbeing of Google Cloud customers, partners, employees and the overall community is our top priority. Due to the growing concern around…

Posted by: Carole Gunst

March 9, 2020

3 Things About Data Virtualization You Might Not Know

Data virtualization is not new. It was born in the naughts when data was still small by today’s standards. Unlike today, most data was stored in relational databases from a few vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. Oh my, how…

Posted by: Dave Mariani