PASS Data Community Summit Day 2 Keynote
Today’s is the Redgate Keynote Simplifying Complexity: Making the Database Work in the Real World.
Redgate head of events Annabel Bradford started the day with a recap on Day 1 and a key message Everyone is welcome and we hope this is your favourite date event of the year and maybe ever.
Next, Kellyn Gorman, Redgate’s newest Advocate, shared insights on the data platform professional landscape. Data professionals’ norm is becoming multi-cloud.
It was also great to hear different perspectives from Graham McMillan, CTO of Redgate, and Archana Venkatraman from IDC. They covered the four strategic priorities for organizations;
- Speed
- Quality
- Efficiency
- Productivity
This transitioned into six core data desires;
- Data mobility
- Secure data access from anywhere
- Data integration
- Data integrity and quality
- Data availability
- Cyber and ransomware resilience
Time to hear from Danny De Haan, SQL Server Infrastructure Specialist – Product Architect from APG and Arneh Eskandari Director of Solutions Engineering, Redgate.
It was great to see how APG is transitioning to an infrastructure as code space and using DevOps CI/CD.
Kellyn Gorman and Graham McMillan rejoined the stage to talk about DBA’s and Engineering.
Discussing these 3 Key topics from a DBA and engineering perspective
- Efficiency
- Innovation
- Security
It wouldn’t be a keynote without some key product stats and announcements
Redgate’s Flyway now supports 50_ database variants, including Cassandre, ClickHouse, databricks.
Redgate is now available via cloud marketplaces
- Redgate Flyway
- Redgate Test Data Manager
- Redgate Monitor
Now for challenges, what is the single biggest challenge we face
- Data security and access controls
- Skillset requirements and training
- Data integration complexities
- Monitoring and troubleshooting
Surprising or not, number 2 Skillset requirements and training was the highest with over 50% respondence.
Testing and test data is crucial so it was really great to hear from James Hemson
Product Manager, Redgate, about all the improvements and features in Redgate Test Data Manager.
The ability to create test data from your data using AI models, keeping the data local and, as an analytics professional, having test data that is statistically significant!!!!
