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IT Services Company Saves $1.4M in Annual Azure Spend with Synapse Optimization

Pythian Synapse optimization cuts costs, improves query performance, and enables Fabric migration readiness A global IT ...

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Unifying a Tier-1 Financial Institution's Data Estate on the Databricks Lakehouse

Pythian consolidated legacy warehouses, governed petabytes of regulated data, and deployed production AI A global ...

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Modernizing a Global IT Services Provider's Redshift Environment for Production Analytics and AI

Pythian cut an aging Redshift estate query latency by 60 percent and saving $1.8M annually A multinational IT services ...

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Modernizing a Legacy Teradata Estate for Enterprise Analytics and AI

Pythian migrated a decade-old Teradata warehouse to BigQuery without disrupting 24/7 operations This organization built ...

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Modernizing a Legacy Oracle Exadata Data Warehouse for a Global Retailer

How Pythian turned aging Exadata into a cloud-native analytics and AI platform A global multi-brand retailer with ...

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Modernizing a Vertica Projection-Era Analytics into a Cloud-Native, AI-Ready Platform

How Pythian helped a global IT services provider exit Vertica Enterprise Mode and deliver production analytics and AI A ...

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Modernizing from Greenplum for Mission-Critical Analytics for a Global Financial Institution

From Broadcom-pressured Greenplum to AI-ready cloud analytics A Tier-1 financial institution running 200+ terabytes of ...

BigQuery

Modernizing a Global IT Services Provider's Db2 Estate for Cloud-Native Analytics and AI

Legacy Db2 z/OS and LUW to a cloud-native analytics and AI platform A global IT services organization across 30+ ...

BigQuery

Migrating Regulatory Analytics from Netezza to an AI-ready Cloud Platform

Zero-disruption migration for a Tier-1 financial institution A Fortune 500 financial institution ran regulatory ...

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Modernizing Big Data Infrastructure from Hadoop for a Tier-1 Financial Institution

From unsupported Hadoop to governed Databricks Lakehouse — 55% cost reduction and production AI in under a year A ...

Google Workspace

Data Protection vs. Data Loss Prevention in Google Workspace: Understanding the Difference

Data is your organization’s most valuable asset.

Google Workspace

The Hidden Costs of Ignoring Data Loss Prevention in Google Workspace

If your organization is using Google Workspace, then your organization is storing data in the cloud, and most likely, ...

Google Workspace

How to Detect and Prevent Unauthorized Access in Google Workspace

Hackers have a new tool at their disposal: generative AI.

Google Workspace

The Role of Google Workspace Admins in Strengthening Security: A Checklist for 2025

More than four in five security decision-makers acknowledge the need to improve security measures, according to a ...

Google Workspace

Common Google Workspace Security Misconfigurations That Leave Your Data at Risk

Google Workspace is built with security at its core, but that doesn’t mean it’s secure by default.

Google BigQuery

Unfolding Excellence: Best Practices for Migrating Your On-Premises Data Warehouse to Google Cloud’s BigQuery

If you have big data, then you need big storage. And if you want to leverage that big data, then you’ll need to migrate ...

Google Workspace

Revolutionizing Retail: Empowering Frontline Workers with Google Workspace

Frontline retail workers play a critical role in driving sales—and brand loyalty—by delivering exceptional customer ...

Databricks

Where in a Modern Data Platform Should You Process Your Data?

Data warehouse or data lake? We break down the pros and cons of each In the book Designing Cloud Data Platforms, ...

Oracle

How to troubleshoot a failure to mount DBFS

When attempting to shut down Oracle Clusterware, you might encounter the frustrating CRS-2675: Stop of 'ora.crsd' on ...

BigQuery

Data modeling for cloud DW

Intro In this blog post, I would like to share some options that you can consider to model your cloud DW for better ...

Google Cloud

Analyzing BigQuery via Excel and Google Sheets

Both MS Excel and Google Sheets offer ways to connect directly to BQ data, to run queries, to pull data back to ...

Microsoft Azure

Azure Data Lake basics for the SQL Server DBA / developer and... for everyone!

The basics If you're a Microsoft SQL Server DBA or developer and have not been introduced to the Microsoft Azure Data ...

Microsoft Azure

News and upates from Microsoft Azure, pt II

I recently joined Chris Presley for his podcast, Cloudscape , to talk about what’s happening in the world of ...

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Calculating business days in HiveQL

Background One of the common tasks in data processing is to calculate the number of days between two given dates. You ...

BigQuery

The five key Requirements for a successful SAP data management strategy

Introduction In our last blog article on data management and the DART methodology, we discussed the importance of ...

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Data preparation with dbt and BigQuery

Raw incoming data needs to go through a series of data preparation steps before it can be used for analysis. These ...

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Snowflake System Function Error: Argument 0 to Function SYSTEM$PIPE_STATUS Needs to Be Constant

I recently encountered the above issue which prompted me to write this blog post so I can easily reference the solution ...

Google Cloud

Column Level Security BigQuery(GCP)

BigQuery provides fine-grained access to sensitive columns using policy tags, or type-based classification, of data. ...

Google Cloud

Near Real-Time Data Processing for BigQuery: Part Two

This post is part two of describing (near) real-time data processing for BigQuery. In this post, I will use Dataform to ...

Google Workspace

Making the case: Is Google Workspace Enterprise right for my organization?

If your organization is already using the Business edition of Google Workspace and it’s working just fine, why would ...

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IT Services Company Saves $1.4M in Annual Azure Spend with Synapse Optimization

Unifying a Tier-1 Financial Institution's Data Estate on the Databricks Lakehouse

Modernizing a Global IT Services Provider's Redshift Environment for Production Analytics and AI

Modernizing a Legacy Teradata Estate for Enterprise Analytics and AI

Modernizing a Legacy Oracle Exadata Data Warehouse for a Global Retailer

Modernizing a Vertica Projection-Era Analytics into a Cloud-Native, AI-Ready Platform

Modernizing from Greenplum for Mission-Critical Analytics for a Global Financial Institution

Modernizing a Global IT Services Provider's Db2 Estate for Cloud-Native Analytics and AI

Migrating Regulatory Analytics from Netezza to an AI-ready Cloud Platform

Modernizing Big Data Infrastructure from Hadoop for a Tier-1 Financial Institution

Data Protection vs. Data Loss Prevention in Google Workspace: Understanding the Difference

The Hidden Costs of Ignoring Data Loss Prevention in Google Workspace

How to Detect and Prevent Unauthorized Access in Google Workspace

The Role of Google Workspace Admins in Strengthening Security: A Checklist for 2025

Common Google Workspace Security Misconfigurations That Leave Your Data at Risk

Unfolding Excellence: Best Practices for Migrating Your On-Premises Data Warehouse to Google Cloud’s BigQuery

Revolutionizing Retail: Empowering Frontline Workers with Google Workspace

Where in a Modern Data Platform Should You Process Your Data?

How to troubleshoot a failure to mount DBFS

Data modeling for cloud DW

Analyzing BigQuery via Excel and Google Sheets

Azure Data Lake basics for the SQL Server DBA / developer and... for everyone!

News and upates from Microsoft Azure, pt II

Calculating business days in HiveQL

The five key Requirements for a successful SAP data management strategy

Data preparation with dbt and BigQuery

Snowflake System Function Error: Argument 0 to Function SYSTEM$PIPE_STATUS Needs to Be Constant

Column Level Security BigQuery(GCP)

Near Real-Time Data Processing for BigQuery: Part Two

Making the case: Is Google Workspace Enterprise right for my organization?

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