AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

As a result, users can easily find what they need, and organizations avoid the operational and cost burdens of storing unneeded or duplicate data copies. Newer data lakes are highly scalable and can ingest structured and semi-structured data along with unstructured data like text, images, video, and audio.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Analytics remained one of the key focus areas this year, with significant updates and innovations aimed at helping businesses harness their data more efficiently and accelerate insights. From enhancing data lakes to empowering AI-driven analytics, AWS unveiled new tools and services that are set to shape the future of data and analytics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Optimizing GenAI with data management More than ever, businesses need to mitigate these risks while discovering the best approach to data management. The data preparation process should take place alongside a long-term strategy built around GenAI use cases, such as content creation, digital assistants, and code generation.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

In the era of big data, data lakes have emerged as a cornerstone for storing vast amounts of raw data in its native format. They support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering a flexible and scalable environment for data ingestion from multiple sources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

As part of that transformation, Agusti has plans to integrate a data lake into the company’s data architecture and expects two AI proofs of concept (POCs) to be ready to move into production within the quarter. Today, we backflush our data lake through our data warehouse.

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Sisense

APRIL 26, 2020

Different types of information are more suited to being stored in a structured or unstructured format. Read on to explore more about structured vs unstructured data, why the difference between structured and unstructured data matters, and how cloud data warehouses deal with them both. Unstructured data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 18, 2022

Previously, Walgreens was attempting to perform that task with its data lake but faced two significant obstacles: cost and time. Those challenges are well-known to many organizations as they have sought to obtain analytical knowledge from their vast amounts of data. Lakehouses redeem the failures of some data lakes.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The application presents a massive volume of unstructured data through a graphical or programming interface using the analytical abilities of business intelligence technology to provide instant insight. Interactive analytics applications present vast volumes of unstructured data at scale to provide instant insights.

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Sisense

APRIL 9, 2021

Instead, businesses are increasingly turning to data lakes to store massive amounts of unstructured data. Analytics from your cloud data sources are key to transforming your business, but the reality of how most companies use them lags behind expectations. The rise of data warehouses and data lakes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

The data lakehouse is a relatively new data architecture concept, first championed by Cloudera, which offers both storage and analytics capabilities as part of the same solution, in contrast to the concepts for data lake and data warehouse which, respectively, store data in native format, and structured data, often in SQL format.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 3, 2022

It’s stored in corporate data warehouses, data lakes, and a myriad of other locations – and while some of it is put to good use, it’s estimated that around 73% of this data remains unexplored. In this way, you can turn dark data into insights and help drive business improvements. Dark variables. Learn More.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2024

At the same time, they need to optimize operational costs to unlock the value of this data for timely insights and do so with a consistent performance. With this massive data growth, data proliferation across your data stores, data warehouse, and data lakes can become equally challenging.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Basel, Switzerland-based company, which operates in more than 100 countries, has petabytes of data, including highly structured customer data, data about treatments and lab requests, operational data, and a massive, growing volume of unstructured data, particularly imaging data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

If you can’t make sense of your business data, you’re effectively flying blind. Insights hidden in your data are essential for optimizing business operations, finetuning your customer experience, and developing new products — or new lines of business, like predictive maintenance. Azure Data Lake Analytics.

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Cloudera

JUNE 9, 2022

From origin through all points of consumption both on-prem and in the cloud, all data flows need to be controlled in a simple, secure, universal, scalable, and cost-effective way. controlling distribution while also allowing the freedom and flexibility to deliver the data to different services is more critical than ever. .

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Cloudera

AUGUST 13, 2021

Every enterprise is trying to collect and analyze data to get better insights into their business. Whether it is consuming log files, sensor metrics, and other unstructured data, most enterprises manage and deliver data to the data lake and leverage various applications like ETL tools, search engines, and databases for analysis.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Today, we are pleased to announce new AWS Glue connectors for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage that allow you to move data bi-directionally between Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). option("header","true").load("wasbs://yourblob@youraccountname.blob.core.windows.net/loadingtest-input/100mb")

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Inflexible schema, poor for unstructured or real-time data. Data lake Raw storage for all types of structured and unstructured data. Low cost, flexibility, captures diverse data sources. Easy to lose control, risk of becoming a data swamp. Exploratory analytics, raw and diverse data types.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In this post, we show how Ruparupa implemented an incrementally updated data lake to get insights into their business using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS Glue , Apache Hudi , and Amazon QuickSight. An AWS Glue ETL job, using the Apache Hudi connector, updates the S3 data lake hourly with incremental data.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 25, 2024

In the era of data, organizations are increasingly using data lakes to store and analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. Data lakes provide a centralized repository for data from various sources, enabling organizations to unlock valuable insights and drive data-driven decision-making.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We have evolved with our users, from early-on Hadoop hackers needing quick access to data in the Data Lake, to a much more sophisticated SQL tool. The four main pillars of our SQL Tool Design Philosophy consists of: Find and understand data – with confidence. Optimize and troubleshoot – with intelligence.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Data architect Armando Vázquez identifies eight common types of data architects: Enterprise data architect: These data architects oversee an organization’s overall data architecture, defining data architecture strategy and designing and implementing architectures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2023

Advancements in analytics and AI as well as support for unstructured data in centralized data lakes are key benefits of doing business in the cloud, and Shutterstock is capitalizing on its cloud foundation, creating new revenue streams and business models using the cloud and data lakes as key components of its innovation platform.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 25, 2024

This data store provides your organization with the holistic customer records view that is needed for operational efficiency of RAG-based generative AI applications. For building such a data store, an unstructured data store would be best. This is typically unstructured data and is updated in a non-incremental fashion.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 3, 2023

Backtesting is a process used in quantitative finance to evaluate trading strategies using historical data. This helps traders determine the potential profitability of a strategy and identify any risks associated with it, enabling them to optimize it for better performance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

The only thing we have on premise, I believe, is a data server with a bunch of unstructured data on it for our legal team,” says Grady Ligon, who was named Re/Max’s first CIO in October 2022. The first platform is Command, a core agent-facing CRM that supports Keller Williams’ agents and real estate teams.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Organizations don’t know what they have anymore and so can’t fully capitalize on it — the majority of data generated goes unused in decision making. And second, for the data that is used, 80% is semi- or unstructured. Both obstacles can be overcome using modern data architectures, specifically data fabric and data lakehouse.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2023

The R&D laboratories produced large volumes of unstructured data, which were stored in various formats, making it difficult to access and trace. He points to cost savings from the reduction in laboratory tests, formulations, external software licenses, and the optimization of activities.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

In this post, we look at three key challenges that customers face with growing data and how a modern data warehouse and analytics system like Amazon Redshift can meet these challenges across industries and segments. This performance innovation allows Nasdaq to have a multi-use data lake between teams.

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Cloudera

JULY 26, 2021

Among the plethora of industry-specific and technology themes contributing towards that growth agenda, there are some common business and technology forces influencing data product development: An increasing focus on data collaboration partnerships between enterprises to enable data sharing and value exchange across an industry value chain.

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Sisense

OCTOBER 6, 2020

And, as industrial, business, domestic, and personal Internet of Things devices become increasingly intelligent, they communicate with each other and share data to help calibrate performance and maximize efficiency. The result, as Sisense CEO Amir Orad wrote , is that every company is now a data company.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Imagine quickly answering burning business questions nearly instantly, without waiting for data to be found, shared, and ingested. Imagine independently discovering rich new business insights from both structured and unstructured data working together, without having to beg for data sets to be made available.

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Sisense

JUNE 30, 2020

Predicting forthcoming trends sets the stage for optimizing the benefits your organization takes from them. This data is gathered into either on-premises servers or increasingly into cloud data warehouses and data lakes. And the data is as granular as the patient lists at individual family doctors’ surgeries.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 28, 2023

Amazon Redshift now makes it easier for you to run queries in AWS data lakes by automatically mounting the AWS Glue Data Catalog. You no longer have to create an external schema in Amazon Redshift to use the data lake tables cataloged in the Data Catalog.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2023

A data lakehouse is an emerging data management architecture that improves efficiency and converges data warehouse and data lake capabilities driven by a need to improve efficiency and obtain critical insights faster. Let’s start with why data lakehouses are becoming increasingly important.

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BizAcuity

APRIL 14, 2022

With the amount of data being accumulated, it is easier when said. There are a wide range of problems that are presented to organizations when working with big data. Challenges associated with Data Management and Optimizing Big Data. Unscalable data architecture. Unstructured Data Management.

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