This webinar will go over various Big Data ideas and insights. It will also answer the question, What Does “Big Data” Really Mean? Amazon RedShift will also speak and there will be a Demonstration from Informatica Cloud. We will end with a few TechTuesdays Tips for Success.

1. #TechTuesdays @infacloud
Accelerating Big Data
Initiatives with Cloud
Integration
Vijay Narayanan, Cloud Product Management
Ashwin Viswanath, Cloud Product Marketing

2. Today’s Agenda
• Big Data – A Strategic Imperative
• What Does “Big Data” Really Mean?
• Amazon RedShift & Informatica Cloud
• Demonstration
• #TechTuesdays Tips for Success
• Q & A
• Next #TechTuesdays Session
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3. Big Data Initiatives Rapidly Growing
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Source: Forbes, Gartner

4. “Big Data” – What Does It Mean?
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5. Focus On Use Case, Not Technology
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Data
Warehousing
Predictive
Analytics
OLTP Machine Data
Big Data

6. Informatica Cloud and Amazon Redshift:
Enabling Cost-Effective Data Warehousing
• Provision multiple database nodes on demand
• Start large petabyte-scale data warehousing projects
sooner
• Offload raw data from on-premise databases for cost
effective processing
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http://www.informaticacloud.com/amazon-redshift

7. #TechTuesdays @infacloud
Amazon Redshift Cloud
Connector Demo
Vijay Narayanan, Cloud Product Management

8. #TechTuesdays Tips for Success
1. Ensure that you download the SQL Workbench:
http://www.sql-workbench.net/
2. Add your current IP address to “Security Groups” when
logged into Redshift
3. Create two connections:
• To write, use the Informatica Cloud RedShift connector
• To read, use ODBC. Make sure to download 32-bit driver:
http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/odbc/versions/msi/psqlodbc_08_
04_0200.zip
4. Ensure that the Redshift cluster and S3 bucket are in
same availability zone
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9. Q & A

10. Next Steps
• Contact your Account Manager to try out the Informatica
Cloud Amazon Redshift connector
• Join the Informatica Cloud Community:
https://community.informatica.com/community/products/inf
ormatica_cloud
• Attend #TechTuesdays Session 3: Simplifying SAP
Connectivity with Cloud Integration
www.informaticacloud.com/techtuesdays
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