Three Lessons From an Unexpected Sail
A relaxed Fourth of July sail in the San Juan Islands turned into 20-knot winds, four-foot chop, and a passing whale — and three lessons that reach well beyond sailing.
Automated database context complements semantic modeling
How automated database context complements semantic modeling while enabling immediate value from AI grounded in trusted enterprise databases. Semantic models have been the backbone of analytics for decades. They translate raw database structures into business-friendly concepts, enabling dashboards, reports, and metrics at scale. But as organizations push toward AI-driven analytics, semantic models are increasingly showing … Read more
A new identity and expanded purpose
LangGrant Windocks provides LangGrant new identity expanded purpose for enterprise database teams, enabling fast database cloning and virtualization on standard infrastructure. introduces the new company identity, LangGrant, and our new expanded focus. Windocks is known by our customers for innovation and responsive support. Over the years we’ve established our business with market leading support for … Read more
Oracle EBS Database Cloning for Reporting and Analytics
Discover how Windocks Oracle EBS database cloning enhances production reporting, minimizing downtime with automated processes and efficient data management For the past ten years Windocks has served enterprises around the globe with on demand cloned database environments (also known as database virtualization). While the majority of cloned database environments are used in development and test, … Read more
Making the Most of Synthetic Data
Synthetic data can be generated and used to protect privacy during AI/ML modeling, development, and test. Basing synthetic data on production datasets provides for the most accurate learning models and realistic test
Writable SQL Server snapshots, production database timelines, and more
A brief update on what’s new in 2022, including new support for SQL Server 2022, industry-first writable SQL Server snapshots, automated production image timeline support, and new support for third-party backups, and copy only transaction log
Manage data, not infrastructure
Windocks 6.0 introduced support for Linux database virtualization, and a scale-out distributed data repository. This article expands on these new capabilities and introduces database orchestration as a superior approach to on demand database delivery and
Langgrant releases first DevOps data repo for Oracle, SQL Server, Postgre and MySQL, for Docker, Kubernetes and database instances on Linux, Windows and cloud
LangGrant Windocks delivers DevOps data repo Oracle SQL Server for enterprise Oracle environments, providing instant database clones for development and testing. Providing for data what Docker provides for applications July 12, 2021, Bellevue, WA. Langgrant (formerly Windocks) today announced the release of version 6.0, the first secure, cloud native DevOps data repo. The release extends … Read more
Introducing Windocks Complete Data Masking
Windocks now includes optional SQL Server data masking. This article explores Windocks new data masking and why over 90% of Windocks evaluators choose Windocks over Red Gate in head to head
Postgres and MySQL containers and database cloning
Windocks now supports Postgres and MySQL containers and database cloning, the first commercially support for Postgres and MySQL containers on Windows. The combination of containers with on demand database environments is a recognized best practice for development and test, and