Cheat sheet with the key network elements you need to connect with your Teradata VaaS on Azure and a detailed explanation.
Category: Cloud
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Cloud is a model. It enables ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Those resources are networks, servers, storage, applications, and services. The Cloud allows quickly provisioning the resources with minimal effort or interaction.
In my opinion, the main benefit of the Cloud is that it allows innovation with native technologies. For example, several Machine Learning services are not available on-prem.
It also improves collaboration by making access to the data easier for anyone who needs it – anywhere, anytime within an organisation.
Moreover, the Cloud services perform many operations under the covers, so you can spend more time doing more practical tasks for your business, rather than just making maintenance tasks. Most of the services already do many of those tasks for you, such as scaling up and down automatically or collecting statistics in some databases.
With the increasing adoption of the Cloud paradigm, it has become critical to design and maintain hybrid architectures. In these scenarios, organisations perform part of their operations on-prem, streaming data to the Cloud. I explain different situations, use cases, and solutions in this category.
Additionally, it is pretty frequent that companies migrate their databases. For me, the secret sauce on an excellent migration is to plan carefully. I dedicate some posts on different aspects of database migration. However, I always insist on the tips to architect and design the migrations.
Equally important is keeping an analytical ecosystem in the Cloud. So I also have some posts on best practices for these ecosystems and how to leverage their benefits and native technologies.
Teradata VaaS on GCP: Network configuration
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Teradata’s Cloud-Native Database
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Andreas Botsikas – Microsoft engineer, author of the Azure Data Scientist Guide
“ML models are in fashion, such as customer churn predictions. However, it’s not easy to define what a churned customer is unless you have a multi subscription system like Netflix, where you can quickly identify the customers who stopped paying. E.g., what does churn mean for a supermarket?”