FINAL WORD
What is a cloud
data warehouse
and why is
it important?
The benefits of cloud technology are
indisputable and we are rapidly witnessing
the advantages it can offer to businesses.
Rob Mellor, VP and GM EMEA, WhereScape,
discusses five positives to utilising a cloud data
warehouse in today’s digital landscape.
We are seeing business expectations for on-demand data
explode, with many data warehousing teams beginning
to transition their data warehousing efforts to the cloud.
The need to efficiently pull together data from a wide range of
ever-evolving data sources and present it in a consumable way
to a broadening audience of decision-makers means cloud data
warehousing is proving invaluable.
Here, we cover the basics and explore cloud data warehousing;
how the cloud data warehouse compares to the traditional data
warehouse, and the benefits of a cross-cloud solution.
What is a cloud data warehouse?
A cloud data warehouse is a database service hosted online by a
public cloud company. It has the functionality of an on-premises
database but is managed by a third party, can be accessed
remotely and its memory and compute power can be shrunk or
grown instantly.
Traditional vs. cloud data warehouse differences
A traditional data warehouse is an architecture for organising, storing
and accessing ordered data, hosted in a data centre on-premises
owned by the organisation whose data is stored within it. It is of a
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