Skyscape Launches Assured Oracle Cloud Platform

Skyscape Cloud Services Limited has announced the launch of its new cloud platform, based on Oracle’s Virtual Machine (OVM) technology. Skyscape’s Oracle platform will ensure that its public sector customers can host their workloads on Skyscape’s secure platform, while meeting the stringent licensing and hardware requirements specified by Oracle’s software solutions.

A wide variety of citizen-facing applications and UK public sector back office systems are based on Oracle’s database technology. Traditionally these systems require dedicated hardware which not only involves initial capital investment but also poses a challenge in terms of flexibility and capacity management — if more capacity is required, so is more hardware which takes time and resource to put in place. The very specific hardware and licensing requirements associated with Oracle solutions also make it difficult for public sector organizations to change hosting suppliers or deploy a diverse solution hosted across two platforms. Skyscape’s new Oracle platform provides a solution to these problems. Its customers can host their Oracle-based services with Skyscape and therefore realize the benefits of true cloud hosting – increased agility and consumption-based pricing as well as significantly reduced costs as the need for investment in hardware is removed. All while complying with Oracle’s licensing requirements.

“Our new Oracle Platform, which is built on OVM technology has been specifically designed with our commitment to the public sector in mind,” said Simon Hansford, CEO of Skyscape Cloud Services. “Our platform is used to deliver many critical services to citizens so it’s imperative that we continue to adapt to the evolving requirements of our public sector customers. This new platform will respond to these demands from customers using Oracle technologies, helping us to continue to support the public sector in the digital transformation of public services, ultimately benefiting UK citizens and tax payers.”

Matt Howell, head of public sector at Capgemini said “We applaud the launch of Skyscape’s Oracle platform. While we have Oracle loads on the Skyscape platform, we observe a lag in cloud adoption amongst our public sector customers due to the lack of an assured platform designed specifically to meet the needs of Oracle applications. As Skyscape’s new platform complies with Oracle licencing it will enable those customers to migrate services to the cloud quicker and with less risk.”

The new Skyscape Oracle platform offers the same unique assurance, sovereignty and connectivity capabilities offered by Skyscape’s other platforms, all within an environment that is specifically optimised for Oracle workloads. Use of the Skyscape Oracle platform can enable organisations to prolong the lifecycle of existing applications by removing the reliance on legacy hardware. More importantly it can support further innovation across the public sector as it can be used to support projects that require high levels of security and assurance, combined with flexibility and scalability. Projects that can be up and running far quicker as test and development as well as production environments can be quickly established without the need to procure hardware.

“We’re really excited about the development of Skyscape’s Oracle based platform” said Vikram Setia, partner and chief commercial officer at Infomentum. “As an Oracle platinum partner, we understand the complexities of successfully delivering Oracle solutions in the cloud – especially for customers who have specific requirements around data management and location. Skyscape’s new Oracle based platform, and its sole focus on the requirements of the UK public sector, is great news for those looking to utilise a proven UK based cloud service provider to host their Oracle workloads.”

Additional benefits of Skyscape’s Oracle platform include:

• Compatibility with a wide variety of Oracle technologies such as, but not exclusive to: Oracle Database, WebLogic, Fusion Applications, E-Business Suite and more
• Service Level Agreements that are sensitive to the requirements of Oracle applications
• Advanced Cross Domain Security Zone — a secure managed or self-managed area that enables citizen access over the internet to data which is securely hosted on the elevated domain
• Broad networking – connect via the internet (with DDoS protection provided as standard); via Government community networks (PSN Assured service, PSN Protected service, N3, Janet, RLI; or legacy networks including PNN) or via HybridConnect

Source: CloudStrategyMag

EdgeConneX®, Comcast Business, Datapipe, And Megaport Partner To Bring The Cloud Local To Boston Enterprises

EdgeConneX® has announced that it has entered into an agreement to facilitate the availability of direct cloud connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform within its Boston Edge Data Center® via the deployment of Megaport’s SDN-based elastic interconnection fabric. With this new offering, Datapipe and Comcast Business will offer localized cloud migration services to ease enterprise adoption and simplify network connectivity to the cloud.

Datapipe, a leading global managed hosting and cloud services provider, will offer Boston-based cloud integration services, facilitating and managing local enterprises through the appropriate migration to public and hybrid solutions. Comcast Business, which offers Ethernet, Internet, Wi-Fi, Voice, TV and Managed Enterprise Solutions to help organizations of all sizes transform their business, is offering its direct and private Ethernet services to the EdgeConneX Boston Edge Data Center (EDC) and will be training its vast sales team to speed enterprise adoption of hybrid cloud services. Megaport, the pioneer in elastic bandwidth services, will provide its elastic interconnection platform, which enables on-demand, highly reliable, scalable and private direct connections to leading Cloud Service Providers. As a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute connectivity partner, Amazon AWS Direct Connect partner and Google Cloud Platform Carrier Interconnect partner, Megaport makes it simple to directly connect to cloud services with right-sized capacity.

This collective partnership results in the availability of a cloud ecosystem that makes Boston one of the most effectively and efficiently connected markets in the world for handling the complex needs of IT organizations as they continue to advance their use of the cloud and take advantage of its many benefits. Previously, cloud connectivity investments of this magnitude were only found in a few global core markets leaving the majority of enterprises outside of those geographies without an ideal solution.

“It’s amazing that a top-five enterprise market relies on services hundreds of miles away for critical IT infrastructure,” remarks Clint Heiden, chief commercial officer, EdgeConneX. “Effective cloud solutions, and thus adoption by enterprises, depends on reliable, fast and secure connectivity. Furthermore, an effective hybrid implementation is still one that is local to the customer. Boston marks our third roll out of local cloud services, following the May and June announcements of Portland and Detroit, respectively. We plan to continue rolling out these services across our entire global EDC footprint.”

The Internet of Everywhere requires a highly diverse and distributed content and cloud architecture, with the network Edge extended beyond traditional major peering hubs to ensure the service quality and experience expected by today’s enterprises and consumers. According to the Cisco Global Cloud Index (GCI): Forecast and Methodology, 2014-2019 White Paper, network latency is a critical factor in cloud adoption and limits the use of advanced services in the cloud. “Reducing delay in delivering packets to and from the cloud is crucial to delivering today’s advanced services and ensuring a high-quality end-user experience,” the GCI stated.

“Boston enterprise growth is on the rise with the city’s high-tech sector growing nine percent every year since 2010,” comments Robb Allen, CEO, Datapipe. “EdgeConneX has built a compelling multi-cloud ecosystem around their data center facilities to meet this increase in demand. Datapipe’s experience in migrating, optimizing and managing IT infrastructure can help enterprises take full advantage of this ecosystem.”

The EdgeConneX Boston EDC is optimized to offer security, speed and performance improvements. These innovations enable customers to deliver digital content, cloud and applications to end-users as fast as possible. Edge Data Centers are proximity-based, strategically located nearest to the end-user’s point of access to reduce network latency and optimize performance. Local proximity access also brings the cloud closer to the enterprise, enabling more secure, real-time access to cloud applications and services while offering reduced backbone transport costs.

“Until recently, cloud services were consumed on-demand while connectivity to those cloud services remained static and fixed,” explains Denver Maddux, CEO, Megaport. “Megaport enables enterprises to deploy on-demand capacity that is right-sized and reliable. We’re excited to support this initiative to enable Boston businesses with a powerful set of tools to unlock next-generation cloud architectures.”

“Our extensive Boston network has direct on-net access to thousands of enterprises,” states Steve Walsh, vice president for Comcast Business in Greater Boston. “This broad reach allows us to offer reliable Ethernet services that can meet virtually any business demand. Having a local cloud offering in Boston adds a tremendous solution for us to bring to our customers and further highlights how Comcast Business is keeping pace with the growth needs of the market.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

CSC And IBM Expand Strategic Alliance

CSC and IBM have announced a collaboration in which IBM will provide its cloud managed services for z Systems — IBM Cloud for z — and associated mainframe hardware, software, monitoring, and governance support to CSC clients who are moving to the cloud and want a more secure, scalable, flexible information technology infrastructure at significantly reduced operational costs.

The expanded alliance further advances CSC’s vision of the “Service-Enabled Enterprise” and IBM’s “as-a-service” strategy, both designed to increase client choice and innovation in adopting emerging technologies. The as-a-service strategy provides consumption-based pricing for the IBM z Systems environment to give clients’ greater capital investment flexibility.

“Many clients are looking for ways to make historically fixed cost more variable to migrate from legacy platforms to modernized applications and to a cloud enabled infrastructure,” said Stephen Hilton, CSC’s executive vice president & general manager, Global Infrastructure Services. “As a solution independent integrator, CSC is uniquely positioned to leverage transformative services like the IBM Cloud for z to benefit our clients. This new cloud-based service expands our cloud offering and is a natural evolution of our long-standing alliance with IBM. We are very excited to be providing our clients greater choice and capital flexibility when transforming legacy computing to a cloud-like service, and delighted that our close partnership with IBM has enabled us to bring this transformative offering to market.”

The agreement builds on an announcement earlier this year that the IBM Cloud is available to CSC clients as an option through CSC’s next generation IT services. Integration of the CSC Agility Platform™ with the IBM Cloud will enable clients across multiple industries — including healthcare, insurance and finance — to quickly leverage the benefits of the hybrid cloud and deploy some 10,000 applications that deliver rapid proof of value.

“IBM’s ability to bring its world-class strengths in customer service and information technology operations will enable CSC to maximize mainframe efficiencies now and in the future via the IBM Cloud for z,” said Philip Guido, GM of IBM Services in North America. “IBM’s leadership in next-generation cloud, security, big data, management processes and support aligns with CSC’s objectives of leading client digital transformation needs and providing long-term solutions to meet their ever-evolving requirements.”

IBM’s Cloud for z support of CSC will:

• Enable the right level of computing resources and dynamically adjust capability levels as client needs change
• Provide a predictable pricing model offering increased flexibility
• Offer high levels of secure computing, coupled with configurable options of high availability that can help reduce business risk
• Reduce total cost of computing and IT operations by using a shared infrastructure for software, server, disk, and tape needs

Resiliency services that will be provided to CSC include Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), which provides replication, backup and recovery of critical infrastructure, data, and systems to the cloud to enable a rapid recovery of applications and data.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

New York Philharmonic Selects Webair For Colocation Services

Webair has announced that the New York Philharmonic, the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, is now a customer. Webair will provide the New York Philharmonic with managed cloud, cloud storage, backups, colocation, and network connectivity. The organization has also deployed a direct network tie-in from Webair’s NY1 data center facility on Long Island to its New York City premises, enabling it to leverage all of these managed services quickly, securely and with low latency. 

“The New York Philharmonic was looking for a provider with a state-of-the art network architecture to service its Internet infrastructure requirements, and in selecting Webair gained a strategic end-to-end cloud and services solutions partner that exceeded our diverse technical and business needs,” stated Terri-Ann Feindt, director of information technology at the New York Philharmonic. “Relocating a colocation environment is a challenging undertaking under any circumstances. With only 90-days’ notice, Webair quickly developed a comprehensive plan in collaboration with my technical team to ensure a seamless migration that met the business requirement of no downtime and included a failsafe contingency plan.”

Webair will also host the New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives, which serves as a repository for nearly 175 years of Philharmonic history, and is the oldest and most comprehensive collection of any symphony orchestra. The ever-expanding Leon Levy Digital Archives currently makes available to the public more than 1.3 million pages, including printed programs, marked conducting scores, business documents, and photographs, dating back to 1842. Upon its completion in 2018, the Digital Archives will contain more than 3 million pages — including correspondence, marked scores and parts, contracts, and minutes from Board of Directors meetings — as well as all public documents from 1970 through today.

“The New York Philharmonic is a world-class cultural, educational and entertainment institution with a unique and demanding set of business, technological and connectivity requirements,” comments Michael Orza, chief executive officer, Webair. “Within a demanding timeframe, Webair was able meet the organization’s demanding uptime, agility, security and scalability requirements. Reinforced by our high-touch approach to providing customized solutions from NY1, our flagship data center facility, we were able to deliver connectivity and a breadth of business critical services to satisfy its growing and expanding digital environment.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Report: Enterprise Adoption Driving Strong Growth Of Public Cloud IaaS

Public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings are rapidly gaining acceptance among enterprises as a viable alternative to on-premises hardware for IT infrastructure. A recent survey of over 6,000 IT organizations found that nearly two thirds of the respondents are either already using or planning to use public cloud IaaS by the end of 2016. International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts public cloud IaaS revenues to more than triple, from $12.6 billion in 2015 to $43.6 billion in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28.2% over the five-year forecast period.

“Public cloud services are increasingly being seen as an enabler of business agility and speed,” said Deepak Mohan, research director, Public Cloud Storage and Infrastructure at IDC. “This is bringing about a shift in IT infrastructure spending, with implications for the incumbent leaders in enterprise infrastructure technologies. Growth of public cloud IaaS has also created new service opportunities around adoption and usage of public cloud resources. With changes at the infrastructure, architectural, and operational layers, public cloud IaaS is slowly transforming the enterprise IT value chain.”

The public cloud IaaS market grew 51% in 2015. IDC expects this high growth to continue through 2016 and 2017 with a CAGR of more than 41%. The growth rate is expected to slow after 2017 as enterprises shift from cloud exploration to cloud optimization. In addition, alternatives such as managed private cloud will grow in maturity and availability, providing IT organizations more options as they plan their infrastructure transformation.

For many enterprises, a hybrid infrastructure mixing existing IT infrastructure with cloud infrastructure represents the optimal path to public cloud IaaS adoption. In fact, hybrid cloud infrastructure is already a common pattern at several large enterprises and IDC predicts that 80% of IT organizations will be committed to hybrid architectures by 2018.

From a worldwide perspective, a number of regional public cloud services have emerged in the last two years. A majority of these are based on OpenStack, which has lowered the barrier for creation and set up of new cloud services. IDC expects to see continued growth in regional public cloud service providers, driven by regulatory and data sovereignty concerns, and increasing demand for local alternatives to the global public cloud service providers.

The public cloud IaaS market is currently dominated by a few large service providers, led by Amazon, followed by a long tail of much smaller service providers. In 2015, 56% of the revenue and 59% of the absolute growth went to the top 10 IaaS vendors. The dominance of the leading providers is expected to continue throughout the forecast period, as economies of scale and continued investment drive the cycle of adoption and growth.

The IDC report, Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Forecast, 2016-2020 (IDC #US41556916), provides a detailed forecast for the public cloud IaaS market. Revenues and growth are provided for the storage and compute segments and for three geographic regions (the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia/Pacific). IDC defines public cloud infrastructure as a service as the aggregate of virtual server compute, the raw ephemeral and persistent storage capacity, and the associated network capability, delivered through a public cloud deployment model.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Dataguise DgSecure Now Available In AWS Marketplace

Dataguise has announced that Dataguise DgSecure® 6.0 is now available in the Amazon Web Services AWS Marketplace. DgSecure provides the ability to detect, protect, and monitor sensitive data as it lives and moves across on-premises and cloud-based repositories, including Amazon S3 via the Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) platform. With DgSecure, data-driven enterprises can maintain total ownership of all sensitive data — known or unknown — in the cloud, enabling business users to embrace the power and efficiencies of cloud computing while minimizing data privacy and compliance concerns. The solution was recently demonstrated at the AWS Summit in Santa Clara.

One of the biggest obstacles to cloud adoption is data security and compliance. With the growing usage of cloud services by business users without IT involvement, maintaining enterprise-wide ownership over sensitive data in the cloud is a major challenge. Dataguise DgSecure helps identify gaps in the enterprise’s security and compliance efforts by offering a simple, powerful solution for global sensitive data governance. Unmatched in its ability to discover and continually detect sensitive data across on-premises and cloud-based repositories, and then secure and monitor it, DgSecure gives IT and business executives the insight they need to:

• Understand data breach, privacy, and compliance risks, on a global scale, at any given time
• Make risk-based decisions about data access, usage, and security
• Protect the organization while facilitating new data-driven initiatives to grow the business

“DgSecure’s availability through the AWS Marketplace is an important milestone for us,” said JT Sison, VP, marketing and business development, Dataguise. “Doing business in the cloud is real-time, and our enterprise customers rely on us to keep up. In conjunction with Amazon EMR, DgSecure enables business users to harness the full potential of their data in Amazon S3 to maximize the business value while minimizing the risk.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Logicalis US Appoints Sally Brandtneris CFO

Logicalis has announced the appointment of Sally Brandtneris to the position of chief financial officer (CFO) in the United States. In this role, Brandtneris is responsible for maintaining sound day-to-day fiscal management and controls, including the executive direction and oversight of finance, accounting, tax, and IT functions, as well as Logicalis’ banking and auditing relationships. She will also direct financial strategy, planning and forecasting in concert with the CEO and executive team and will lead the organization in making strategic, market-leading investments. Brandtneris is based in Logicalis’ Bloomfield Hills, MI, office.

“The addition of Sally Brandtneris to the Logicalis management team comes on the heels of the company’s recent sales and profit growth. Sally has led financial operations for a broad range of Fortune 500 and multinational companies across technology and industrial industries. Her strong technology background and financial leadership experience will serve Logicalis well as we help our customers transform their businesses into digitally enabled enterprises,” says Vince DeLuca, Logicalis US CEO.

“This is an exciting time for organizations across every industry as they undergo intensive transformation in their business models. Logicalis is at the forefront of providing technology and business leadership, consulting and guidance to IT organizations in transition,” says Brandtneris. “I look forward to delivering financial guidance and innovation to help the Logicalis leadership team achieve its business objectives.”

Brandtneris has 35 years of financial leadership experience in a variety of industries including the IT industry. She has held positions with Eaton Corporation, Ingersoll-Rand, Sun Microsystems, Apollo Computer, and IBM. Most recently, Brandtneris served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Stefanini IT Solutions where she provided financial leadership for 30 Stefanini entities that were geographically dispersed across Asia, Europe and the Americas and organized under a UK holding company, fully owned by a Brazilian entrepreneur. As the financial leader of the UK holding company, Brandtneris restructured the Latin American, European and Asian legal entities and achieved UK audit and tax compliance, reporting under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). She also developed strategies to put in place a more effective tax strategy and modify the company’s capital structure. In 2015, Brandtneris was named a finalist for the “Crain’s CFO of the Year Awards” annual competition conducted by Crain’s Detroit Business.

Brandtneris holds an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and French from the University of Michigan.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

TierPoint Now Offering Managed Microsoft Azure Services Nationally

TierPoint has announced the national expansion of managed Microsoft Azure services. The expansion builds on TierPoint’s acquisition earlier this year of Cosentry, which had previously rolled out these services.

This development enables TierPoint managed services on Microsoft’s Azure public cloud, including design, implementation, migration, and optimization. TierPoint also offers managed Office 365 services nationally, including initial environment assessment and performance recommendations, consulting and customization, hybrid environment design and synchronization of Office 365 with on premise Exchange.

“We’re seeing a steady increase in the growth of hybrid cloud solutions,” said Shea Long, senior vice president of products, TierPoint. “By offering managed services on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, we provide customers with greater flexibility in addressing their IT infrastructure needs. Our consultative approach, from solution design to migration, can help customers reduce time to market and minimize downtime risk through patching, monitoring, anti-virus, proactive notification, and more.”

Lansing Trade Group is a TierPoint client that has successfully migrated to a hybrid cloud solution, incorporating Microsoft Azure. Prior to the migration, Lansing faced a number of challenges including aging IT infrastructure, the need to auto-scale servers based on demand and only pay for what they used, and a need to shift traditional infrastructure tasks to a collaborative cloud provider.

 “We saw an opportunity to move to a more efficient cloud solution leveraging the Azure platform and TierPoint’s managed services,” said Jason Sears, director of IT, Lansing. 

Source: CloudStrategyMag

IndependenceIT Announces General Availability Of Adaptive Cloud Management Platform

IndependenceIT has announced general availability of its adaptive Cloud Management Platform (CMP+) at the 2016 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto, Canada.

IndependenceIT’s next-generation software platform, CMP+, allows IT administrators to create and automate Software Defined Data Centers (SDDCs), as well as public, private, or hybrid cloud-based servers, applications, and workloads. The solution allows for greater choice in how these services are orchestrated and deployed. CMP+ permits administrators to provision and manage not only servers, but meaningful workloads where performance, availability, and accessibility can be tuned through administrative policies. Designed for both enterprises and IT service providers, the platform provides the highest level of automation and pre-set workflows to improve support, reduce administrative management, and lower costs.

In addition to enhanced automation and workflows, CMP+ provides a unified view of all workloads that enables organizations to reallocate and streamline resources for improved operational margins. The platform is an evolution of IndependenceIT’s innovative software suite that automates many manual and resource-intensive activities while enabling IT administrators to quickly create, easily manage, and adapt to changing conditions, such as fast scaling of workload capacity up or down.

In conjunction with the release of CMP+, the company is enhancing its partner program to support channel adoption and delivery. With respect to licensing, the enhanced program allows partners to self-deploy an unlimited number of SDDCs on any combination of public, private or hybrid cloud platforms for a minimum licensing fee of $100 per month per SDDC. The price includes the licensing or management of 15 end users or up to 50 virtual machines. The enhanced pricing model allows partners to take advantage of the innovative capabilities and rapidly deploying SDDCs and workloads on any platform with greater flexibility and easier management than previously possible.

According to a recent report by International Data Corporation (IDC)(1), “IndependenceIT’s Cloud Workspace Suite 5.0 – Enabling Choice in Public Cloud Virtual Client Computing Deployments,” March 28, 2016, “One compelling set of CMP+ features serve to even the playing field between the large IaaS suppliers and the companies that engage their services for VCC deployments. Because the environments, architectures, management tools, and business models are highly heterogeneous, migration is difficult and lock-in becomes a dangerous proposition. With the IndependenceIT solution the tasks to initially set up a Virtual Client Computing deployment on a given cloud or migrate an existing deployment to another provider are simplified and automated. Likewise, such tasks can be completed in minutes as opposed to days, mitigating the risks associated with lock-in.”

“With CMP+ we have elevated the ability to provision, manage, automate, support and adapt workloads to meet demanding business requirements,” said Seth Bostock, CEO, IndependenceIT. “Our platform brings new levels of efficiency to IT, while expanding choice and capitalizing on the value of existing investments. We welcome those interested in leveraging the technology for their business or IT services organization to visit with us at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference to experience the technology firsthand.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Inquidia Consulting Releases Pentaho Data Integration Component

Inquidia Consulting has announced the release of a new software component that allows developers of big data architectures to easily integrate new data sources into Snowflake’s cloud-native data warehouse and analytic engine. Snowflake Computing’s Elastic Data Warehouse is simple and easy to deploy for incredibly fast, scalable, and highly concurrent analytic applications.

The component, designed for users of Pentaho Data Integration, can be plugged into new or existing Pentaho Data Integration deployments. The plugin includes both a Snowflake warehouse manager and a Snowflake bulk loader component. The warehouse manager can create, drop, resume, suspend, and resize warehouses during processing. The Snowflake bulk loader takes advantage of Snowflake’s parallelism to load structured CSV type data and unstructured JSON data into Snowflake faster than previously possible.

“At Inquidia, we have always focused on delivering resilient, sustainable analytic environments for our customers,” said Chris Deptula, senior architect for the Inquidia Labs project. “Inquidia sees Snowflake’s unparalleled data warehouse and analytic database technology at the forefront of the cloud analytics revolution. Our customers want simpler, streamlined and scalable operation of their Big Data, and Inquidia’s plugin for Pentaho in Snowflake’s platform does just that.”

The new component was built from the ground up, taking advantage of Snowflake’s native processing of diverse, structured and semi-structured data, massive parallelism, instant scalability, non-disruptive data loading, support for metadata injection, and more. The component also adds Snowflake as a native connection type in Pentaho.

“Integration of varied data sources into a comprehensive analytics view is the lifeblood of today’s analytics teams,” said Walter Aldana, Snowflake Computing’s alliance executive. “Inquidia and Snowflake share the same goal of providing simple, powerful, dynamic, and cost-effective data warehouse and analytics infrastructures to data consumers everywhere. Inquidia’s plugin for Pentaho extends the ease-of-use of the Snowflake Computing’s Elastic Data Warehouse platform to companies that want to make data available to those who need it most,”

Customers will be able to install the plugin for Snowflake operation, and take advantage of the breadth of Pentaho’s world-class data integration platform. Through Pentaho Data Integration (PDI), developers and analysts will be able to prepare and blend data to drive actionable insights. Pentaho’s visual tools eliminate coding and complexity, allowing simplified data blending data blending at the fingertips of business and IT users.

“Pentaho is a leading data integration and business analytics company that helps organizations harness value from all of their data, no matter how complex the environment,” said Chuck Yarbrough, senior director of Solutions Marketing at Pentaho, a Hitachi Group Company. “We recognize the value of an extensible architecture to accomplish this and are pleased that Inquidia’s development of the Snowflake plugin extends the Pentaho platform, helping to deliver data to high-impact analytics environments everywhere.”

The plugin is currently available on GitHub, and is expected to be available in the Pentaho Marketplace in the coming weeks.

Source: CloudStrategyMag