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The Internet of Things: Real-Time Data and Analytics Enable Business Innovation

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

The emerging internet of things (IoT) is an extension of digital connectivity to devices and sensors in homes, businesses, vehicles and potentially almost anywhere.

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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

While there is a lot of discussion about the merits of data warehouses, not enough discussion centers around data lakes. We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes. Both data warehouses and data lakes are used when storing big data.

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Use External Data Platform to Improve Analytics

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Our research shows that external data sources are also a routine part of data preparation processes, with 80% of organizations incorporating one or more external data sources. And a similar proportion of participants in our research (84%) include external data in their data lakes.

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From data lakes to insights: dbt adapter for Amazon Athena now supported in dbt Cloud

AWS Big Data

The need for streamlined data transformations As organizations increasingly adopt cloud-based data lakes and warehouses, the demand for efficient data transformation tools has grown. Using Athena and the dbt adapter, you can transform raw data in Amazon S3 into well-structured tables suitable for analytics.

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Modernizing Data Architectures

Data Virtualization

Recently, we have seen the rise of new technologies like big data, the Internet of things (IoT), and data lakes. But we have not seen many developments in the way that data gets delivered. Modernizing the data infrastructure is the.

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Apache Iceberg optimization: Solving the small files problem in Amazon EMR

AWS Big Data

In our previous post Improve operational efficiencies of Apache Iceberg tables built on Amazon S3 data lakes , we discussed how you can implement solutions to improve operational efficiencies of your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake that is using the Apache Iceberg open table format and running on the Amazon EMR big data platform.

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Living on the Edge: How to Accelerate Your Business with Real-time Analytics

Cloudera

Leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) allows you to improve processes and take your business in new directions. That’s where you find the ability to empower IoT devices to respond to events in real time by capturing and analyzing the relevant data. The edge also makes it easier to scale data-capture operations.

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