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Q3: What are some of the challenges with purely on-premises implementations? How can cloud help with these?
The Hoffington Post
Operations, support, monitoring, etc. All the things a (good) service provider will take care of for you.
Amit Patel
Cloud removes the dependence business has on IT for analytics. It's analytics for the masses or democratization of analytics.
Wendy Lucas
On-prem requires business users to wait for IT infrastructure. Cloud gets those users to results faster.
Adam Ronthal
On-prem challenges: expensive to expand datawarehouse infrastructure. dashDB can help.
Srinath Ranga
As of now we are looking at Websphere Cast Iron for both onpremise & cloud integrations. CSV 2 JSON document structure in seconds..
The Hoffington Post
If you can hire a world-class ops team to watch your deploy all the time, great. If not, let us do it ;)
Adam Ronthal
On-prem challenges: long lead times to deploy new projects. dashDB can help.
Nancy Hensley
scalability, there is not alot of elasticity in the computer room
Adam Ronthal
On-prem challenges: analytics and application portability. dashDB can help.
Henrik Loeser
for some of my customers it takes months (years) to provision machines, network, storage, software...
Nancy Hensley
on prem doesn't fuel self-service, and that can slow the business down when it needs really fast turn around
Jeff Feinsmith
It isn't simply waiting on IT infrustructure. It is waiting on the slowest part of the business, budgetary approval for capital assets and spend release.
Nancy Hensley
DW appliances went a long way to improve it, but they still didn't quite help the self service part
Marco Bonezzi
flexibility, scalability, ability to provision the right infrastructure in a short time
Nancy Hensley
the goal has always been to get data in the hands of those who need it, cloud gets us there faster
jameskobielus
The concern with on-premises is often bottom line: they need to build a data center, hire an IT staff, buy/integrate hardware and software, and establish rigorous procedures.
Adam Ronthal
@jameskobielus That's the "business of data warehousing" Jim!
Nancy Hensley
bigdata means more storage, more storage means more cost, most staff, less ability to move FAST
Marco Bonezzi
dashDB - data insights in less than 1 day / on-premises - weeks? months?
jameskobielus
Cloud can help with on-prem challenges by eliminating the need to invest in in-house infrastructure and staff. Pay for capability through OPEX not CAPEX.
Data Warehouse News
@data_henrik - Henrik -- how does dashDB help your clients? Will they implement it as part of a hybrid approach for certain types of analytics?
dashDB
Pull down to see that Q4 has been posted.
Katrina Read
Infrastructure budgets are in decline and any CapEx spend is scrutinized - DashDB brings speed and flexibility of deployment.
Sam Lightstone
On prem you need to negotiate and fund the hardware. Then manage and tune the software. No fun. Too slow. The world demands agile.
Jeff Feinsmith
@samlightstone Exactly, the hardware negotiation and funding is typically the longest part of the exercise from my experience.
Data Warehouse News
@kleendirt - Happy to have you on! -- find a question add your throughts or reply to a comment
Rich Hughes
best of breed technology yields ease of use and delivers results
Data Warehouse News
Hey rich can you find Q2 and respond under that for me?
dashDB
Q2: What concerns do you have about embracing cloud-based data warehousing and analytics?
Nancy Hensley
BEING LAST TO GET IT :)
Henrik Loeser
network speed, security
Wendy Lucas
Most clients think security is the biggest barrier
Srinath Ranga
As a Solution provider, it is a question of convincing the client about security issues..
Nancy Hensley
Most people are concerned with Security but there are plenty of apps that can easily move- how about test/dev?
Henrik Loeser
@data_henrik but I learned who is hosting it and that Softlayer customers can get dedicated networks
Adam Ronthal
Security a top concern for cloud-based analytics. dashDB designed with security in mind from the ground up.
Nancy Hensley
WIth all the investment going to the cloud, Security concerns will be solved quickly, we are already thinking years ahead with #dashDB
Adam Ronthal
Data movement to the cloud a concern for cloud-based analytics. dashDB + Data Works makes it easy.
Amit Patel
IBM has thought of common concerns clients have with cloud-based analytics like security, data privacy, hybrid architectures, data integration.
Nancy Hensley
∑ By year-end 2016, more than 50% of Global 1000 will have stored customer sensitive data in the public cloud (Gartner as quoted on Wired) - 50% are not worried!
The Hoffington Post
@data_henrik Network quality is really important for any database/DW in the cloud. Speed is important, but stability even more so.
Amit Patel
#dashDB brings enterprise class data warehousing to the cloud.
John Furrier
@nancykoppdw with containers and perimeter-less security getting stronger this concern will be mitigated
Nancy Hensley
lots of concerns with moving/loading data as well
Natasha Bishop
Hmm @GetdashDB not worried abt #security does not mean its not an issue though. How do we address?
Leon Katsnelson
we hear "security" a lot. That is why dashDB has security baked in. There is the usual perimeter security that you would expect. There is also encryption all the way. Most important, dashDB can tell you if you have sensitive data and what to do about it
Adam Ronthal
@Natasha_D_G Security starts from the ground up, proceeds to the software design, and concludes with operational best practices. We've got you covered.
Leon Katsnelson
@marcobonezzi by data locatin you mean complaince with safe harbor laws?
Sam Lightstone
One of the concerns that people often have about move to cloud is load simplicity. That's why dashDB has focused on it so heavily. Seamless integration with IBM DataWorks extends dashDB to huge potential. Rich data format support.
dashDB
Pull down the screen to see that Q3 has been posted.
Marco Bonezzi
@katsnelson exactly...sometimes that is required I guess
Leon Katsnelson
@_hoffman dashDB runs in Softlayer. One of the key differentiators for Softlayer cloud is robustness of its network. Head and shoulders above other CSPs
jameskobielus
Customers are concerned that they will lose control over their data if they put it in the cloud. That security and compliance may suffer.
Sam Lightstone
Security! Yup (as others have said, and I agree). dashDB has always-on encryption for data on disk, and across wire transfers.
The Hoffington Post
@katsnelson Agreed. Both within and between data centers. Gotta think globally about these things.
Rich Hughes
Some concerns around Cloud DW-ing include bulk loading, synchronizing, and securing data.
Katrina Read
Where the data is physically stored is still a concern to many companies - leveraging the global SoftLayer pods to support DashDB will be essential.
Jeff Feinsmith
How is high availability handled? If one or more DashDB nodes managed in the Cloud goes down, what happens to my data and application availability?
Rich Hughes
Security concerns around data can be mitigated with hybrid cloud solutions.
The Hoffington Post
@JeffFeinsmith If you use Cloudant as your canonical data store, the data is replicated multiple times on different servers _before_ it even gets to dashDB.
Tim Crawford
Comes back to risk around the data. Compare that with value to see the whole picture.