Category: Big Data

Feed: Crayon Data. Author: Sruthi Ravishankar. The way humans communicate is in bite sized pieces. So-Young Kang believes that we’ve been practicing micro learning for 1000s of years now.  Our most recent guest on Slaves to the Algo says, “It’s the neuroscience of learning. There’s the behavior design component of it. But there are decades of research around how humans learn and maximize our potential. And it’s not through long form one way communication.”  So-Young is a pioneer and serial entrepreneur constantly looking at new ways of solving big challenges. Her latest challenge is focused on how to maximize human potential ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Ryan Dsouza. Introduction Industrial digital transformation can increase competitiveness and optimize processes and profitability through the use of big data, IoT, machine-to-machine communication, and machine learning. Continuous digitalization and progressive interconnectivity of the production environment is important to capturing value from industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions. While this new and expanding “physical meets digital” connectivity enables great rewards, it also introduces new risk, which needs to be properly managed. Industrial organizations should be aware of the risks that come along with the benefits of this convergence and cloud adoption. As ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Ram Venkatesh. Posted in Business | June 17, 2022 4 min read Cloudera customers run some of the biggest data lakes on earth. These lakes power mission critical large scale data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning use cases, including enterprise data warehouses. In recent years, the term “data lakehouse” was coined to describe this architectural pattern of tabular analytics over data in the data lake. In a rush to own this term, many vendors have lost sight of the fact that the openness of a data architecture is what guarantees its durability and longevity ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . There’s recently been a massive wave of activity and announcements in the database space. From new features to future product roadmaps, database providers are placing their stakes in the ground to be among the leaders in a real-time application market that continues to heat up. In just the last few weeks, we’ve seen: Google announce their OLTP database, AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. A fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database, AlloyDB aims to simplify enterprise-grade workloads with features like elastic storage and compute, intelligent caching and AI/ML capabilities. MongoDB reveal Column Store Indexes. Expected to be available later this year, this feature ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Adam Rasheed. In our prior blog, we discussed a definition and framework for Digital Twins consistent with how our customers are using Digital Twins in their applications. We defined Digital Twin as “a living digital representation of an individual physical system that is dynamically updated with data to mimic the true structure, state, and behavior of the physical system, to drive business outcomes.” In addition, we described a four-level Digital Twin leveling index, shown in the figure below, to help customers understand their use-cases and the technologies needed to ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. Following his role as research director and instructor of fintech at Creighton University, San Francisco-based economist, Jeffrey Milewski co-founded the non-profit Global Income Coin. The crypto company aims to provide a universal basic income of $1 to any person worldwide. Initial funding of $2 million is from a personal donation of Sid Sijbrandij (co-founder and CEO of GitLab Inc.). M.R. Rangaswami: Why did you co-found a nonprofit that wants to utilize crypto as a way to provide universal basic income worldwide?  Jeffrey Milewski: I’m inspired by the potential of crypto to make a ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Michael Kohs. Posted in Technical | June 17, 2022 6 min read In the second blog of the Universal Data Distribution blog series, we explored how Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) can help you implement use cases like data lakehouse and data warehouse ingest, cybersecurity, and log optimization, as well as IoT and streaming data collection. A key requirement for these use cases is the ability to not only actively pull data from source systems but to receive data that is being pushed from various sources to the central distribution service.  In this third ... Read More

Feed: Crayon Data. Author: Team Crayon Data. Date: June 16, 2022 Source: ELETS BFSI As customers increasingly move towards cloud technology, the need for SaaS products is on the rise. The core banking systems are becoming defunct and chipping away at the edges, with technology evolving, especially around payments. Picking it as a service brings down the risk of funding the wrong projects. This also poses a scenario where tech could move from edge to core on the functioning of the bank, to understand the challenges that the traditional banks are currently facing. Nidhi Shail Kujur of Elets News Network ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Most businesses store their critical data in a data lake, where you can bring data from various sources to a centralized storage. The data is processed by specialized big data compute engines, such as Amazon Athena for interactive queries, Amazon EMR for Apache Spark applications, Amazon SageMaker for machine learning, and Amazon QuickSight for data visualization. Apache Iceberg is an open-source table format for data stored in data lakes. It is optimized for data access patterns in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) cloud object storage. Iceberg helps data engineers tackle complex challenges in data ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ranjith Raman. By Ranjith Raman, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWSBy Oded Rosenmann, Global Practice Lead, SaaS Partners – AWS Organizations are increasingly looking for new ways to defend themselves against cyber threats, fraud, and ransomware attacks. Many enterprises and government agencies turn to cyber security solutions that provide efficient and effective detection and response capabilities to proactively prevent attackers from breaching their networks and applications. To help organizations overcome these challenges, Anomali, a leader in intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions, recently launched its cloud-native extended detection and response (XDR) solution, The Anomali Platform. Building upon ... Read More