If your organization is already using the Business edition of Google Workspace and it’s working just fine, why would you consider upgrading your subscription level?  Organizations have different needs based on their team size, ways of working, security requirements, data…

From merging domains and transferring accounts to rebranding to data migrations to aligning, there are a lot of steps involved in bringing Google Workspace under one, central umbrella. During a merger or acquisition—when companies are most likely to be doing…

All public clouds offer flexible computing, networking and storage. And you’re likely using at least one public cloud, if not two or more. But if you’re thinking about moving some of your mission-critical applications to the cloud—such as SAP or…

  Every year, tens of thousands of IT professionals and executives visit Pythian’s blog to tap into our team’s deep expertise and experience. As 2022 comes to a close, we’d like to highlight a few of our reader’s favourites over…

In the midst of the digital transformation, more businesses than ever before are leveraging their data and cloud computing platforms to shift how they operate in and keep up with the rapidly changing environment. In order to get the most…

As we look back on the past ten years, cloud computing may be considered one of the largest transformations in technology, heavily adopted by users of all kinds. Regardless of the industry, it’s no secret that the cloud has transformed…

During COVID-19, business is no longer as usual. Recently I have had a few contacts ask me for tips on how to work remotely. Why? Well, I have been working from home for ten years now. Working remotely is just…

In 2019, we forecasted and highlighted the top trends in big data analytics. Today we will be revisiting this topic to explore how the trends have progressed as time has evolved. As we dive deeper into the digital age, the…

Configuration files management is the core component of every configuration management tool. Templates are one of the best methods for creating configuration files as they allow dynamic variables. Ansible has a template module that uses Jinja2 in its core. Jinja2…

If you work with Data Guard, the lag between the primary and standby database is an informative but difficult metric to measure. I’ve encountered some “solutions” that use the COMPLETION_TIME in (G)V$ARCHIVED_LOG for the standby destination as the time of…