Cloud Platform Adoption: Lessons Learned — Philip Glebow, Gap

Data lakes based on Hadoop technologies have proved themselves valuable in mission-critical use cases such as data warehousing, advanced analytics, multichannel marketing, complete customer views, digital supply chains, and the modernization of data management.Most Hadoop users are committed to the data lake method of managing data, but they are limited by Hadoop shortcomings in key areas such as cluster maintenance, administration cost, resource management, metadata management, and support for SQL and other relational technologies. Many view cloud-based solutions as the optimal replacement for their data lake, but they are not ready to make such a significant change. The truth is: they don't have to, as the two technologies can coexist.

We’re on a mission to help ERP users (Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft, JDE and SAP) remove these roadblocks that limit your access to actionable HR data and insights. Join Talend, Snowflake and KPI to see a demo of KPI Cloud Analytics for ERP (a free accelerator) using state of the art Talend and Snowflake technologies and the BI tool of your choice!

Cloud computing promises agility, flexibility, and lower costs. But the promise is only fulfilled if the cloud is part of a comprehensive data strategy based on your unique business needs, use cases, and objectives. Achieving the business outcomes you seek requires creating a unified application environment spanning on-premises and public clouds and offering consistent security, governance, and user experience.

In this webinar we cover the use cases and demo Network Insight on VMware Cloud. Join Matt Vandenbeld (@vcloudmatt) from the VMware Cloud customer success team for a weekly webinar series. Each week, we table a different topic with expert guests to discuss and demo features of the VMware Cloud platform. We’ve covered everything from setting up an SDDC to AppDefense – if you have any requests for future sessions let us know.