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Join Pythian at the Gartner Symposium/ITXpo in Barcelona
If you’re planning on attending the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo coming up on November 5-9, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain, make sure to visit Pythian’s booth located in the Emerging Technology Pavilion. Stop by to find out about our Analytics as a Service…
Advice for responding to the WPA2 security flaw
By now everyone’s likely heard about the serious vulnerability affecting the Wi-Fi security protocol WPA2 that secures the wireless communications of just about every consumer device out there. The Key Reinstallation Attacks (KRACK) allow an attacker to control the encryption…
Why You Should Consider the Cloud for a Modern Data Warehouse
Your data warehouse modernization strategy can make or break your ability to derive value from traditional data sources (for example, your operations and financial data) as well as emerging data sources such as IoT data from devices and sensors,…
Can you run Hadoop in the cloud? And is it the right choice?
As the Director of Big Data and Data Science at Pythian, I often get questions from clients about the many solutions available to them to address their big data needs. Between Hadoop, cloud-based, and hybrid solutions, finding the best option…
Oracle OpenWorld 2017 Bloggers Meetup
DON’T PANIC. Yes, we are doing the OOW Bloggers Meetup this year. Yes, it’s the same time. Yes, it’s the same location. Yes, it’s more fun every year. What: Oracle Bloggers Meetup 2017. When: Wed, 04-Oct-2017, 5:30pm. Where: Main Dining…
Taking Your Data and Analytics to the Cloud
Live Webinar Taking Your Data and Analytics to the Cloud Thursday, September 28th at 2 p.m. ET REGISTER As the urgency to compete on analytics continues to revolutionize the business world, more and more organizations are moving their data to…
Join Top Data Experts at Pythian’s Love Your Data Conference in London
According to Gartner’s CIO 2017 survey, BI and Analytics continue to top IT investments. Are you an IT or BI business leader looking for ways to drive business outcomes with data and analytics? If so, join Pythian on September 13,…
How Cloud Answers the Call for High-Performance Data Integration
Data-driven business users have come to expect faster and more complete analytics results than ever before. This means IT departments are faced with the challenge of integrating more data types from more sources. Traditional data warehouse technology is simply not…
How Pythian Helped a Global Retailer Use Data to Better Understand Their Customers’ In-store Shopping Habits
In order for a retailer improve their in-store revenues and overall customer experience, they need to deeply understand the shopping habits of their customers and how merchandise placement in stores influences buying behaviour. This major global retailer needed to capture…
How Pythian Helped Nav Canada Migrate Their Oracle Database to a Microsoft Azure SQL Database
A common concern for businesses is optimizing database speed and performance, without raising costs. Nav Canada supports flight planning with aviation weather, aeronautical information, and online flight planning. To address a need for a more cost-efficient environment for their critical…
Join Pythian and DBTA on August 24, 2017 for a Live Roundtable Webinar: Harnessing the Hadoop Ecosystem
Harnessing the Hadoop Ecosystem Live Roundtable Thursday, August 24 at 11:00 am PT / 2:00 PM ET REGISTER With a stake at the center of how organizations are consuming and leveraging big data, Hadoop adoption in the enterprise is growing…
How a successful cloud migration boosted SaaS platform performance for Mapp Digital
Today’s innovative organizations have come to rely on the flexibility, modularity, and scalability of the cloud for their business-critical SaaS platforms and associated data. Mapp Digital’s cloud migration project is just one example of how Pythian can help SaaS companies…
The Key Concepts of Blockchain for Business
This blog post, the first in a series, discusses the key concepts of the business blockchain as explained by William Mougayar. Blockchain has been variously described as revolutionary, disruptive and transformative. It has also been described as an overhyped buzzword,…
Video: Make data part of your company’s DNA with Kick AaaS
Wouldn’t your job be a lot easier if you could overcome data silos to get better insights on everything from operational efficiency, to marketing performance, to your customers’ experience? What if you could gather enough data in one place for…
Four must-haves to make your remote business succeed
The debate over remote work rages on. This past March, IBM announced that the 2,600 employees of its U.S. marketing department would now be required to work on-site or look for other jobs. The decision was stunningly ironic — after…
Why Privileged Access Management Isn’t Optional at Pythian
According to the Washington Post, at the end of June the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security sent a joint alert to the energy sector stating that “advanced, persistent threat actors” — a euphemism for sophisticated foreign hackers —…
Six Tips to Help Managers Manage Remote Employees
In my tenure with Pythian of almost 10 years, as a remote employee and as a manager, I have a lot of experience managing remote employees, in different geographies and time zones. As a remote worker myself, I am very…
Top Trends in Data and IT and What They Mean for Your Business
Artificial intelligence, adopting lean practices in your innovation efforts, the future of BI and Blockchain were just some of the topics we heard about at Pythian’s recent Love Your Data Conference. This event brings together CIOs and IT Business leaders,…
Pythian Recognized as a Leader on the 2017 IAOP
IAOP recognizes Pythian as one of the world’s best outsourcing service providers with distinguishing honors for outstanding commitment to customer service OTTAWA, ON June 20, 2017—Pythian, a global technology services company that helps businesses adopt disruptive technologies to better…
BBM Messenger Selects Pythian For Major Google Cloud Platform Migration
Ottawa, ON – June 15, 2017 – Pythian, a global IT services company that helps businesses adopt technologies to better compete, announced today that Creative Media Works, operating as BBM Messenger, has selected Pythian to help them move their mission-critical IT infrastructure for…
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Log Buffer #524: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
This Log Buffer Edition covers Cloud, Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL and much more.
Advice for responding to the WPA2 security flaw
By now everyone’s likely heard about the serious vulnerability affecting the Wi-Fi security protocol WPA2 that secures the wireless communications of just about every consumer device out there. The Key Reinstallation Attacks (KRACK) allow an attacker to control the encryption…
Log Buffer #525: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
This Log Buffer Edition picks Cloud, Oracle,SQL Server, and MySQL blog posts.
Why You Should Consider the Cloud for a Modern Data Warehouse
Your data warehouse modernization strategy can make or break your ability to derive value from traditional data sources (for example, your operations and financial data) as well as emerging data sources such as IoT data from devices and sensors,…
Can you run Hadoop in the cloud? And is it the right choice?
As the Director of Big Data and Data Science at Pythian, I often get questions from clients about the many solutions available to them to address their big data needs. Between Hadoop, cloud-based, and hybrid solutions, finding the best option…
Percona Live Europe 2017 review
The last week of September the Percona Live Europe conference happened in Dublin, Ireland. After two years in Amsterdam they decided it was time for something new and Ireland was the place to be for all open-source database technologies. Pythian…
Datascape Podcast Episode 15 – Machine Learning Primer For Enterprise IT with Paul Spiegelhalter
Joining us today we have my esteemed colleague Paul Spiegelhalter. Paul is a data scientist and machine learning specialist with expertise in predictive analytics and algorithmic modeling across a number of industries, including computer vision, online advertising and user analysis,…
Log Buffer #523: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
This Log Buffer Edition touches upon various blog posts from Cloud, Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.
Pythian at All Things Open 2017
All Things Open 2017 is coming up fast, and Pythian is proud to be supporting one of the largest open source-focused conferences in the US! All Things Open is a conference in Raleigh, North Carolina on October 23-24, 2017. ATO…
Sending email from Oracle with utl_smtp via Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Sometimes I want to send email from my own databases for testing purposes. Lacking a mail server, I opted to use Amazon’s Simple Email Service (SES). SES is a paid product, with a free usage tier. For my purposes however SES…
Idempotent and Nullipotent in Cloud
I was going through the documentation of Oracle Cloud IaaS, when I came across a vaguely familiar term “Idempotent”. One great thing I feel strongly with all this Cloud-mania is the recollection of various theoretical computing concepts which we learned/read…
Log Buffer #522: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
This edition of Log Buffer covers Cloud, Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL and much more.
dbatools and a SQL Agent
The mission: Tell every DBA around the world about a secret formula that will give them powers. What power do you think that is? Freedom! Freedom to go work on projects that you want to do versus constantly putting out…
How You Can Use dbatools Module to Make Your Life Easier
The mission: Tell every DBA around the world about a secret formula that will give them powers. What power do you think that is? Freedom! Freedom to go work on projects that you want to do versus constantly putting out…
Log Buffer #521: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
While cloud technologies are roaring ahead in full force; the traditional RDBMS like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL are adapting pretty fast. This Log Buffer Edition covers blogs related to that and more.
How to fix an AWR Warehouse after credentials change
We had an AWR Warehouse (AWRW) installation (OEM 12.1.0.5 on Linux) collecting data from +50 databases for a few months. A few days ago we tried to connect and found it was not working, with the AWRW console showing an…
Oracle OpenWorld 2017 Bloggers Meetup
DON’T PANIC. Yes, we are doing the OOW Bloggers Meetup this year. Yes, it’s the same time. Yes, it’s the same location. Yes, it’s more fun every year. What: Oracle Bloggers Meetup 2017. When: Wed, 04-Oct-2017, 5:30pm. Where: Main Dining…
Log Buffer #520: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
This Log Buffer covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.
Taking Your Data and Analytics to the Cloud
Live Webinar Taking Your Data and Analytics to the Cloud Thursday, September 28th at 2 p.m. ET REGISTER As the urgency to compete on analytics continues to revolutionize the business world, more and more organizations are moving their data to…
Supervised Machine Learning: A Conversational Guide for Executives and Practitioners
This post gives a systematic overview of the vital points to consider when building supervised learning models. We address in Q&A style some of the key decisions/issues to go over when building a machine learning/ deep learning model. Whether you…
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My Internship Experience at Pythian
I remember nervously walking out of one of King’s Cross St Pancras Station’s numerous exits searching for the 7 Stanley Building. I wandered through the morning rush in the heart of London, and I was overwhelmed, out of place and…
Pythian at All Things Open 2017
All Things Open 2017 is coming up fast, and Pythian is proud to be supporting one of the largest open source-focused conferences in the US! All Things Open is a conference in Raleigh, North Carolina on October 23-24, 2017. ATO…
Has “Google-ing it” Gotten Better Over Time?
Just Thinking… Have you noticed the subtle shift in how we search for information on the Internet…? In the past when I wanted to find something, I would start a web browser (before Tabs came along) and go to www.google.co.nz….
How to hold a great team meeting with remote employees
I want to talk about something that I initially did very poorly when I first became a remote manager in hopes you can learn from my mistakes – Team Meetings. When I started having my first team meetings as a…
My Co-op Experience at Pythian
I returned to Pythian for my co-op term this past winter (it’s worth mentioning that previous to this, I had already completed two four month terms as a Software Development Intern at the company). The fact that I came back…
Join CEO Paul Vallée and Top Data Experts at Pythian’s Love Your Data Conference in NYC
Every year, leaders from every industry are presented with a buffet of conference opportunities to choose from. The pull to attend the biggest and shiniest is strong as event organizers lure potential attendees with swag bags, explosive branding and the…
PerconaLive Santa Clara 2017 in Review
PerconaLive Santa Clara 2017 happened last week and Pythian is pleased to have been able to sponsor the event. I really enjoyed several of the keynotes. In particular was Baron Schwarz’s keynote on Observability and Distributed Monitoring. Booking.com’s Monitoring without…
Pythian Named One of Canada’s Top Employers for the Fourth Consecutive Year
Ottawa, ON– April 25, 2017 Pythian, a global IT services company that helps businesses compete by adopting disruptive technologies, announced today that it has been named one of Canada’s Top Small & Medium Employers for the fourth consecutive year, a…
2017 Annual Open Source Database Community Dinner in Santa Clara
Once again, Pythian is organizing the traditional Open Source Database Community dinner in Santa Clara! When: Tuesday April 25, 7pm-10pm Where: David’s Restaurant, a short 5-minute walk from the Santa Clara Convention center. Tickets: Register here! Among the attendees will…
Collaborate 17 – Las Vegas, Pythian is Comin’ for Ya!
There are endless reasons to attend the upcoming Collaborate 17 conference (April 2 – April 6). They include, but are not limited to, the following: Three of Oracle’s biggest and most influential users groups are hosting the event (shout out…
Pythian at the PerconaLive 2017 Open Source Database Conference
With PerconaLive 2017 coming up in a couple of months, go ahead and get excited! The conference is being held in Santa Clara, California from April 24-28, 2017. While you’re there, be sure to add these Pythian sessions to your…
Five Reasons Businesses Should Consider Pythian in 2017
Hilary Smith and Sarah Killoran discuss why businesses should work with Pythian in 2017.
Pythian: More Than Just a Co-op
Megan Macphee writes about her co-op experience in the Pythian HR department.
Pythian Opens New European Office in London
Pythian is expanding its global footprint in Europe with a new larger office in the tech hub of London and a significant investment in sales and technical resources. Pythian’s revenue from its European region has grown by more than 150%…
2016 Last Minute DBA Holiday Gift Guide
Do you have a hard-to-buy-for DBA on your list? Whether you’re a manager looking for something to give your talented people, or someone with a special DBA in your life, we know it’s not always easy to choose the right…
Being a Pythianite
It has been seven months since I started working for Pythian and it doesn’t feel like it at all. The main reason is the full time work from home option that we enjoy here. I couldn’t agree more when my…
Aim for Exceptional: Reflecting on my Employment at Pythian
Shawn Melton, SQL Server Database Consultant at Pythian, discusses how his employment at Pythian differs from past jobs, and why.
Embracing Lifelong Learning In The IT Industry
Alejandro Cordero, Lead Database Consultant at Pythian, discusses the importance of lifelong learning in the IT industry.
Pythian Sponsors Another Successful Technovation Challenge!
Stephanie Caron, Marketing Manager at Pythian and Ottawa Chapter Program Coordinator for Technovation, talks about the conclusion of this year’s event.
What’s Holding You Back From Giving Back?
Heidi Hauver, VP of HR at Pythian, reflects on the importance of giving during National Volunteer Week.