Solix Common Data Platform
How to choose a cloud-first enterprise architecture vendor
It has been well over a decade since the cloud was popularized by giants like Amazon. With cloud technology now widely adopted across many industries, enterprises, in particular, have been looking at a cloud-first approach to their infrastructures—83% of enterprise architecture workloads will be in the cloud by 2020. And as data continues to grow at historical rates (globally increasing 61% to 175 Zettabytes by 2025), it is now more important than ever for enterprises to enable a virtually limitless influx and analysis of data in the cloud. (more)
The rise of the cloud data platform
Some 60 years ago the early adopters of data-driven enterprise implemented Material Requirements Planning (MRP) to improve manufacturing throughput and efficiency. For the first time plant managers used a data platform to foresee outcomes based on optimized plans and schedules. From this great success, the data-driven enterprise evolved to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) to meet the ever-growing demands for online reporting, analytics, and improved business intelligence. (more)
How can the big data fabric be used to put data in to action?
Big data fabric is an emerging platform concept that aims to accelerate business insights “by automating ingestion, curation, discovery, preparation and integration from data silos,” according to Forrester, in its new report “The Forrester Wave: Big Data Fabric, Q2 2018.” (more)
How to pivot your data (Like we did)
When we started data archiving more than a decade ago, the enterprise was a very different place. Companies had challenges dealing with data growth — application performance issues, growing storage costs, and dealing with application upgrades — manageable by today’s standards. To address the data management issue, we pioneered the ILM-ready Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite for enterprises to automate and manage data archiving. (more)
4 public cloud cost optimization steps
It was recently reported that 80% of all IT budgets will be committed to the cloud, with demand for public cloud growing 36%. (more)
Accelerating GDPR compliance with data removal on a common data platform
With GDPR now in full effect, organizations are scrambling to become compliant to avoid hefty fines, and others are announcing services to help companies get their affairs in order. At Collaborate 18 in April, we were present to witness Oracle announce the release of their free GDPR Utility called the “Oracle E-Business Suite Person Data Removal Tool”. (more)