Category: Big Data

Feed: CIO. Author: . In this week's episode of The CIO Show, we catch up with the technology executives who placed in the top 3 positions in the 2020 CIO50 Australia list.Now in its 5th year, the CIO50 Australia celebrates senior executives who are driving technological innovation and leading teams at organisations in the public and private sectors across Australia.We speak to Ramsay Health Care's chief information officer, John Sutherland, who took the top spot; Angela Coble, director, business technology at Johnson & Johnson Medical who slotted in at number two; and Gordon Dunsford, chief information and technology officer at ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. Okay, I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! If data scientists are the modern-day alchemist who turn data into gold, then why are so many companies using leeches to monetize their data? When I talk to companies about the concept of a “Chief Data Monetization Officer” role, many of them look at me like I have lobsters crawling out of my ears.  “Sorry, we don’t have that role here.”  Of course you don’t have that role, and that’s why you SUCK at monetizing data.  ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Howard M Wiener. A recent Wall Street Journal article, entitled Coronavirus Pandemic Helps Speed More CIOs Toward Business Operations Accountability, observed: “Large businesses are starting to hold their chief information officers accountable for the results of corporate-wide digital business operations, giving them much wider responsibility within the organization. . . Gartner, which last month released its annual list of top strategic predictions, said that by 2024, a quarter of the CIOs working in large, traditional enterprises will effectively become, as the research and advisory firm calls it, ‘COO by proxy.’” The ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: tomaztsql. [This article was first published on R – TomazTsql, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Azure Databricks is a data analytics platform (PaaS), specially optimised for Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Databricks is an enterprise-grade platform service that is unified for data lake architecture for large analytical operations. Azure Databricks combines: large scale data processing for batch loads and streaming datasimplifies and accelerates collaborative work among data scientists, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Data is ubiquitous in businesses today, and the volume and speed of incoming data are constantly increasing. To derive insights from data, it’s essential to deliver it to a data lake or a data store and analyze it. Real-time or near-real-time data delivery can be cost prohibitive, therefore an efficient architecture is key for processing, and becomes more essential with growing data volume and velocity. In this post, we show you how to build a scalable producer and consumer application for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams running on AWS Fargate. Kinesis Data Streams is a fully ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Dave McCann. By Dave McCann, VP of Migration, Marketplace, and Control Services at AWS At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we see customers increasingly turn to AWS Marketplace to modernize the software they use, and to transform their software supply chain. AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with more than 7,000 software listings from over 1,700 independent software vendors (ISVs) that makes it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS. If you’re an ISV, we are dedicated to helping you simplify software procurement. We also want to help you ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. When deploying data lakes on AWS, you can use multiple AWS accounts to better separate different projects or lines of business. In this post, we see how the AWS Lake Formation cross-account capabilities simplify securing and managing distributed data lakes across multiple accounts through a centralized approach, providing fine-grained access control to the AWS Glue Data Catalog and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) locations. Use case Keeping each business unit’s resources as compute and storage in its own AWS account allows for easier cost allocation and permissions governance. In the other hand, centralizing your ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. I will be speaking at two upcoming PASS SQLSaturday’s. These are free events that you can attend virtually: Azure Synapse Analytics: A Data Lakehouse 12/5/20, 1:10pm EST, PASS SQL Saturday Atlanta BI (info) (slides) Azure Synapse Analytics is Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved: a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics into a single service. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Kiran Narsu. Kiran Narsu Alation, AWS, cloud, cloud architectures, data catalog, enterprise data catalog December 2, 2020 — Alation Helps Users Navigate Hybrid Cloud Architecture Today, Alation announced having achieved AWS Advanced Technology Partner status and is now available in AWS Marketplace. Our many joint customers have been using Alation with Amazon Web Services, including Amazon Redshift, EMR, S3, Glue, RDS, and Athena, to enable data search & discovery, run powerful queries, more efficiently migrate to a hybrid cloud, and ensure data governance. Welcome to the Hybrid Cloud Enterprises adopt AWS to have the best of both ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John 'JG' Chirapurath. We would like to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems. Our placement is based on our ability to execute and our completeness of vision and is a testament to our ongoing innovation and integration of a broad data portfolio into a cohesive cloud data ecosystem. Cloud and data technologies have been the focal point of digital transformation as organizations democratize and modernize their data platforms to turn data into a strategic asset. Our customers have shown tremendous resilience as ... Read More