What Should The Data Warehouse Become In The Cloud?
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Dan Woods.
Judging from the momentum from all of the big players, if you have a data warehouse, you will soon be asked if it is time to move to the cloud. This is a big decision. Most companies have been working for many years on their data warehouse, and are not going to move it anywhere or change how it works without good reason.
So, the vendors are going to have to make a strong case to justify this move. You will be provided with different reasons depending on who is doing the persuading. Some vendors will suggest you move everything to a new solution in the cloud. Others will suggest you add an outpost in the cloud. Others may suggest you move all or part of your existing data warehouse to the cloud…
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