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Data Egress Cost Analysis

Understand the impact of data transfer and egress costs across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. One of the questions most frequently asked by cloud-savvy, price-aware customers goes something like this: OK, so we like that your tool makes it easy to integrate our cloud database and storage in our centralized data warehouse, but I know our budget will be scrutinized for total cost of ownership (TCO), including our data egress costs.

How to Manage Ruby Memory Usage

Even the most prominent and reliable frameworks are notorious for burning out resources if not configured perfectly. In this post, we are about to take a look at how Ruby, one of the most prominent programming languages and an awesome web application alternative when combined with Rails, manages memory, and how you can make it perform even better. Ruby is a scripting language built for use in web applications and similar stuff.

Why is there a lack of women in tech? Questions answered.

Women in tech is an interesting subject for many reasons. We hear endlessly how the tech industry lacks women, how the gender pay gap is still an issue and how we still lack women in high managerial positions. But we still don’t know why this is. Are women purposely not choosing the tech industry or does the issue run deeper than that?

The Security Challenges of Data Warehousing in the Cloud

Many organizations struggle to meet growing and variable data warehouse demands. No matter how much they pad their annual IT budgets, there never seems to be enough capacity to cover unexpected business requests. This leads to resource restrictions for the various business units that use the platform. When business units are not well served by central IT, “shadow IT” emerges.

How Data Fabrics Power Industrial IoT

Unlike typical resources companies depend upon to thrive, the amount of data available to enterprises is not finite. With edge technology and smart devices, there is truly no limit to the quantity of useful data companies can and should be using to make better informed decisions. But many businesses unnecessarily limit the variety, quality, and extent of the data at their disposal by not having the right data architecture.

Apigee: Your gateway to more manageable APIs for SAP

Businesses migrating their SAP environments to Google Cloud do so for a number of reasons. Most cite the agility, scalability and security advantages of migrating SAP workloads to Google Cloud; many also focus on improved uptime and performance. At some point, most businesses also want to explore the idea that there's a fortune locked up in their business data—and that the cloud holds the key.

Five Reasons to Consider a Modern Data Stack

Fivetran co-founder and CEO George Fraser shares the importance of the modern data stack and five developments he’s eagerly following. When Thomas Edison switched on his first working light bulb, even he could not have predicted that this new technology would eventually revolutionize every aspect of modern life.