What does your organization need to navigate the unexpected and emerge victoriously? The pandemic was an ad hoc testing ground for this question. Among the findings were that digital transformation and cloud services are potent drivers in agility and innovation. …

Since its launch in 2017, Google Cloud Spanner has built a reputation that’s very different from traditional databases. Where old-school databases were known to be fragile, finicky and high-maintenance, Google Cloud Spanner delivered the seemingly impossible: a fully managed relational…

You’ve heard it before: The pandemic accelerated digital transformation. And indeed, organizations stood up temporary technology solutions and expanded cloud services virtually overnight. Organizations took extraordinary measures to ensure necessary employee support, uninterrupted services to customers, and that business kept…

This is the final in a series of three articles on the importance and characteristics of FinOps for managing cloud spend, its business justifications and what it all means for your organization. Click to read the first or second posts. …

This is the second in a series of three articles on the importance and characteristics of FinOps for managing cloud spend, its business justifications and what it all means for your organization. Read the first post here.  The pandemic spurred…

Love your data.  It’s far more than our tagline here at Pythian—it’s truly in our DNA.  That’s why we’re thrilled, honored and even a bit humbled to be named the first-ever Google Cloud Specialization Partner of the Year for Data…

FinOps is also known as cloud cost optimization. Today we discuss the importance and characteristics of managing cloud spend along with its business justifications and implications for your organization. This is the first of three posts in a series. Along…

As with any journey, having a good roadmap and a well-tuned vehicle make for a smoother trip. For an analytics program, the engine for success comes from a modern data platform. Today, this almost always means a cloud-based solution and…

I was talking to someone the other day who asked me why they should consider outsourcing their planned VM migration to the cloud. They felt they were perfectly capable of doing it themselves. The question I asked in return was,…

Once you’ve established your destination, it’s time to hit the road. An organization’s analytic journey typically progresses through four stages of maturity, as follows: See: Deliver insights on where the business is today and was historically. Predict: Project future scenarios…