Sumit Sakar

Sumit Sarkar

Technology researcher, thought leader and speaker working to enable enterprises to rapidly adopt new technologies that are adaptive, connected and cognitive. Sumit has been working in the data access infrastructure field for over 10 years servicing web/mobile developers, data engineers and data scientists. His primary areas of focus include cross platform app development, serverless architectures, and hybrid enterprise data management that supports open standards such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, GraphQL, OData/REST. He has presented dozens of technology sessions at conferences such as Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld, Strata Hadoop World, API World, Microstrategy World, MongoDB World, etc.

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Redshift challenge to load 1M rows via ODI/JDBC WITHOUT S3 buckets | LIVE at #OOW14
Welcome to the Amazon Redshift insert challenge (no s3 or ice buckets).  So LIVE at Oracle OpenWorld 2014 #OOW14, I have been challenged by data professionals to load 1 million records into Amazon Redshift from Oracle Data Integrator WITHOUT using an S3 bucket during a live #OOW14...
Self service OData feeds from Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Hadoop, Postgres
From recent consulting projects, I'm hearing from both IT and business users interested in OData production from on-premise business systems.  This "self service" need is in contrast to my last article on OData production using the Entity Framework for...
Sumit Sarkar September 05, 2014
New Tableau to MongoDB ODBC connection that respects NoSQL data
Tableau analysts may or may not know about the challenges in exposing NoSQL data sources, such as MongoDB, to data visualization tools like Tableau, Qlikview, Spotfire, Microstrategy, SAP Lumira, SAS, Birst, etc.  Progress DataDirect loves a good challenge and engineered the...
Sumit Sarkar July 31, 2014
SQL access with MongoDB ODBC for expanded adoption in financial services
Following Data Summit 2014 in Manhattan, I spoke with panels of industry experts about NoSQL technologies related to financial services.  Coincidentally, MongoDB headquarters is down the street and they have very clever business cards.
Oracle Timesten Database Gateway for ODBC for realtime downstream connectivity
Oracle TimesTen is an in-memory database that can be used as the core database of record or as a cache database for Oracle.  When used as a core database for data intensive workloads, we're seeing significant demand to setup an Oracle Database Gateway to federate TimesTen data for downstream...
Sumit Sarkar April 21, 2014
Hadoop Sqoop JDBC to SQL Server via AD Windows Authentication from Linux
For “big data” connectivity, I see a very high percentage of projects delivering business value from big data initiatives that require data connectivity from DataDirect.  This was specifically around providing...
Sumit Sarkar March 31, 2014
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