“Gaining insights from massive datasets” is the need of the hour. But most business leaders find it challenging. It requires businesses to transition to a scalable data-driven approach, with data and analytics playing a vital role in business decision-making.
Companies can scale quickly as their CXOs can use data-driven insights generated by transforming Data into Decisions faster than the competition. Gartner expects that by 2026, 70% of organizations successfully applying observability will achieve shorter latency for decision-making, enabling competitive advantage for target business or IT processes.
Alternate research from Gartner states that “CEOs are turning to data and analytics leaders to build organizations of the future to meet and exceed business objectives.” However, it also highlights the adoption challenges teams face, including the diversity of the data universe and the lack of a solution unifying all data needs of an organization in a seamless manner.
As they say, the future lies in how companies can leverage Data and Data products to transform their end-to-end business processes. The most significant opportunity in rolling out effective data products is the ability for organizations to have a holistic view and access to their data dispersed everywhere – like stars in a galaxy!
The ability to quickly and accurately analyze large and varied datasets can provide a significant competitive advantage to companies, and they can scale exponentially.
The Global Training delivery partnership between Starburst and DataCouch is a step in that direction.
This partnership offers companies the best-in-class global training delivery model of DataCouch, which has mastered the art and science of effective training delivery in bleeding-edge technologies and the scalable and robust solutions from Starburst.
Both companies are excited about the partnership and the possibilities that it opens up for their customers. Mark Morrissey, Starburst’s Senior Director, Educational Services, and Bhavuk Chawla, Founder and CEO of DataCouch, envision this partnership will create new opportunities for exponential growth by helping Starburst customers scale quickly.
Mark is excited about the partnership, stating, “DataCouch embodies the elements we sought when starting an authorized training partnership. They bring tested best practices for enablement and training. Starburst is a natural fit in their portfolio of training options, and we look forward to Bhavuk and the DataCouch team helping to support Starburst’s global growth.
“We are thrilled to partner with Starburst, a company that shares our vision of empowering individuals and organizations to gain faster insights from data. This partnership is a testament to our commitment to providing world-class knowledge, infrastructure, and services that help bridge the skills gap and enable our clients to succeed in today’s rapidly evolving digital and data landscapes,” says a thrilled Bhavuk.
DataCouch - A Leader in Training Delivery on Bleeding-edge Technologies
DataCouch is a preferred training delivery partner of Starburst, Neo4j, Confluent, PayPal, Snowflake, and many others. With a continued focus on delivering wow, they have mastered a world-class Global Training Delivery Model offering the services of the best instructors.
In addition to the official training offered as part of their partnerships, they also specialize in delivering tailor-made courses to meet clients’ specific needs. The proprietary browser-based Virtual Lab Solution offers a sandbox for learners to experiment without worrying about any impact on the company’s resources. To date, they have transformed over 100K professionals impacting hundreds of millions of people with their work.
With offices in India, Canada, and Malaysia, DataCouch is honored to deliver Enterprise IT Training for many Fortune 500 companies, including Adobe, Apple, BCG, Google, Microsoft, Neo4j, PayPal, Salesforce, Starbucks, and Walmart.
Starburst offers a full-featured data lake analytics platform built on open-source Trino
The zillions of data formats, data types, schemas, data sources, and data processing tools make it much more exciting and challenging to connect everything seamlessly.
The stakeholders ranging from data engineers to data analysts and from business users to functional leadership have been trying to solve the pains of data access – either it is too slow, inflexible, or expensive – or all of them!
That is where Starburst comes into the picture.
Starburst’s platform includes the capabilities to discover, organize, and consume data without time-consuming and costly migrations. We believe the lake should be the center of gravity, but we support accessing data outside the lake when needed. With Starburst, teams can access more complete data, lower the infrastructure cost, use the tools best suited to their specific needs, and avoid vendor lock-in.
The Starburst Advantage
Some of the capabilities of Starburst’s platform are listed below:
- Starburst Galaxy: A fully managed data lake analytics platform designed for large and complex data sets in and around your cloud data lake. Setting up and handling the heavy lifting of designing, provisioning, maintaining, and securing your Trino infrastructure takes just minutes. In addition, Starburst Galaxy offers proprietary features such as fully managed connectors, global search, schema discovery, monitoring and metrics, and data sharing with Data Products that allow your data teams to focus on generating unique insights from your data – not managing and building analytics infrastructure.
- Starburst Enterprise: Data lake analytics platform that allows organizations to access and analyze data on the lake and additional connected sources, including cloud data warehouses, legacy and on-premise databases, and modern streaming and NoSQL sources, all through a single, unified interface. It is a fully supported, production-tested, enterprise-grade distribution of the popular open-source project Trino. Starburst Enterprise adds additional features, such as enterprise-grade security, access controls, a variety of supported connectors, improved performance, and a user-friendly interface.
- Deploy anywhere: Activate the data in your lake, lakehouse, or warehouse anywhere—in the cloud, across clouds, on-prem, or hybrid. Starburst adapts to your specific infrastructure needs, ensuring compliance with global privacy and residency requirements.
- Engine built for performance: Starburst applies smart indexing and caching to any cluster, accelerating interactive queries and dashboards by 40%+. The open-core MPP engine built on Trino is tuned to meet the evolving needs of modern data workloads on any file and table format.
- Fault-tolerant execution: Starburst scales with your data workload from GB to PB scale to meet your evolving requirements. Fault Tolerant Execution allows you to run long-running workloads without fearing query failure, even on limited hardware.
- Data products: Starburst offers out-of-the-box data discovery, cataloging, data sharing, access management, and security controls, so your data teams can collaborate more effectively and securely.
- Connector ecosystem: 50+ connectors to cloud and on-prem data sources allow data engineers to start new data initiatives with exploratory analytics rather than unnecessarily moving data.
Starburst Product Portfolio
Starburst offers two products:
- Starburst Enterprise is a fully supported, production-tested, enterprise-grade distribution of the popular open-source project Trino. In addition, Starburst Enterprise adds additional features, such as enterprise-grade security, access controls, a variety of supported connectors, improved performance, and a user-friendly interface.
- Starburst Galaxy is the easiest and fastest way to start running queries at interactive speeds across data sources using the business intelligence and analytics tools you already know. Starburst Galaxy handles the heavy lifting of designing, provisioning, maintaining, and securing your Trino infrastructure. In addition, Galaxy offers proprietary features such as fully managed connectors, global search, schema discovery, monitoring and metrics, and data sharing with Data Products that allow your data teams to focus on generating unique insights from your data – not managing and building analytics infrastructure.
Come Aboard for an Intergalactic Journey
Starburst’s mission is to free customers to see the invisible and achieve the impossible – like an intergalactic journey! They want to put CDOs and Data Analysts back in control and empower business users with the data they need at the speed the business needs.
DataCouch, on the other hand, set out to expand the horizon of opportunities for learners and transform them into experts. For this, they harness the power of best-in-class training and technology in emerging technologies for tomorrow.
Starburst is like a rocket ship that can take users to unexplored parts of the data galaxy. DataCouch is ready to play its role in fueling the Starburst rocket ship in supporting its Global Training Programs.
