Category: Vendors

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Arielle Diamond. Posted in Business | January 24, 2022 3 min read Many organizations initiate data projects because they want to increase revenue, but a select few tackle projects that truly transform society.  This year, Cloudera is recognizing three organizations as finalists in the Data for Good category of its annual Data Impact Awards: Union Bank of the Philippines, Keck Medicine of USC, and the National Bone Marrow Donor Program. In order to be considered for the Data for Good category, submissions must have addressed some of the most challenging issues affecting society and the planet, ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Niel Dunnage. Posted in Technical | January 21, 2022 9 min read This blog will summarise the security architecture of a CDP Private Cloud Base cluster. The architecture reflects the four pillars of security engineering best practice, Perimeter, Data, Access and Visibility. The release of CDP Private Cloud Base has seen a number of significant enhancements to the security architecture including: Apache Ranger for security policy management Updated Ranger Key Management service Before diving into the technologies it is worth becoming familiar with the key security principle of a layered approach that facilitates defense in depth ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Asir Selvasingh. Today, we are announcing the availability of Elastic integrations for unified observability of Spring Boot applications on Azure. You can seamlessly ship Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic, instrument Spring Boot applications, and monitor every step of your cloud journey. You also get a holistic view across Spring Boot applications and other logs and metrics in your cloud and on-premises environments. Over the past two years, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running ... Read More

Feed: Database Journal. Author: Gregory Larsen. Table Variables have been known to run slowly when the table variable contains lots of rows. This is because when a batch is compiled the table variable has yet to be populated with any rows, and therefore the optimizer uses an estimated row count of 1 for table variables. This occurs because table variables don’t have statistics. Having an estimated row count of 1 works well for operators that have small row counts, like a NESTED LOOP operator for a join operation. Operators that perform well for small numbers of rows do not always ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Navita Sood. Posted in Business | January 19, 2022 3 min read Gartner® recognized Cloudera in three recent reports – Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS), Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Analytical Use Cases and Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Operational Use Cases. Our position as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud DBMS market speaks to our product excellence and market-leading-vision of a hybrid, multifunction integrated platform with built-in security and governance.  Gartner evaluated 20 vendors in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud DBMS and the ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Kenny Gorman. Posted in Technical | January 19, 2022 2 min read We are excited to announce the release of Cloudera Streaming Analytics (CSA) 1.6 for CDP Private Cloud Base. With this release, we build on the foundation on 1.4 and 1.5 – with a number of fixes, enhancements, and features. Starting with this release, we now have an aligned release cycle for CSA Community Edition (CE). You can now expect simultaneous releases of CSA for both CE and CDP Private Cloud Base versions. This will ensure you get your hands on the newest features first, ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. In talking with Microsoft customers, I have found that most are not aware that Microsoft has created industry clouds (see Microsoft Industry Clouds). So I wanted to use this blog to briefly explain what they are and how they may be useful to you. To clear up a lot of confusion, despite the name, these are not clouds they are separate for Azure. Rather, they use the Azure cloud along with existing tools and products customized for a specific industry and placed within the Azure cloud (think “add-ons”). These industry clouds package together ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Arielle Diamond. Posted in Business | January 18, 2022 3 min read Each year, the Cloudera Data Impact Awards recognize organizations that have accomplished amazing things with innovative data solutions.  For 2021, the awards will include a new category: People First. Entrants in this category were asked to demonstrate how they have addressed the world’s “most difficult workplace and societal challenges” with solutions aimed at transforming work culture and society as a whole. More specifically, judges were looking for submissions related to people analytics and reporting; employee recruiting, retention and development; employee resource groups; diversity, equality ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Erich Barnstedt. In the world we live in today, almost every announcement has the word “open” in it. Unfortunately, it feels like there are as many definitions of what “open” means as there are announcements mentioning it. Sometimes it means “we have documented our closed-source SDK from our 100 percent proprietary product”, but nothing more. Allow me to give you my definition. Plus, you can sign up for a free digital event to learn more about Microsoft's commitment to Open Source. When we started the Industrial IoT team eight years ago, our team had already been ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tony Shakib. This blog post has been co-authored by Charlie Lagervik, Principal Program Manager. Consumers today demand flexibility and convenience in how they purchase everything from groceries to home goods. In addition to shopping online, they are increasingly using mobile devices and other digital services to make in-store shopping more efficient and convenient. In response, retailers are striving to reimagine their physical store footprints to drive new and improved shopping experiences. Leading retailers are rapidly developing new solutions to deliver a retail experience that drives loyalty, both online and in stores. Common challenges to implementing ... Read More