Using Azure Blob storage in SSRS reports
Attractive reports are not only showing the hard material statistics and numbers. Visualization of your data leads more and more to graphical decision making. One particular part of your reports are images for logo’s, product images etc. All this data and images were stored on-premise in the past. But when moving to the cloud, where do we need to store and find our data and images? How do we connect to it how do we use it?
Hybrid cloud solutions
I truly believe in the azure environment. The possibilities are huge and growing every day. Do we all need to migrate to the cloud ‘sito-presto’… Yes, I think so. Why I’m so sure about this, is easy to explain. The most important reasons for me are: cost-efficient architecture possibilities and lower maintenance due to very stable architecture solutions. Both models PaaS (platform as a service) and IaaS (infrastructure as a service) make this possible for you.
Azure SQL Datawarehouse “Gen 2”: a mayor game changer
The Azure SQL Datawarehouse is a fast, flexible, and secure cloud data warehouse tuned for running complex queries fast and across petabytes of data. The Azure DWH is build using parallel data warehouse technology which was already the pinnacle of SQL Server DWH workloads.
Azure Data Architectures: Lambda
The lambda architecture actually splits data flows into two components, receiving data centrally and doing as little as possible processing before copying and splitting the data stream into two streams, namely the real time and batch layers. Within Azure we have for example IOT Hub being capable of duplicating these streams at the entry point.
Why invest in data science?
The last years we have been generating data like never before. Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, said the following 6 years ago: “We now create as much information every two days as we did from the dawn of civilisation up until 2003, … That’s something like five exabyte’s of data”. I wouldn’t be shocked if we can do it in one day now. Most of this data is user-generated content, like pictures, instant messages and tweets. But we cannot ignore that in our local businesses, we keep track of way more data than before.
How to get your business ready for the cloud?
Cloud computing is no longer just a buzzword, it is here to stay. Companies should prepare by looking into cloud technology and getting their cloud strategy sorted out. If you look at cloud computing in its most basic form, you could simply call it store stuff on the internet. Although this is partially true, the cloud has much more to offer.
