GKE is a Google Cloud service that offers a managed Kubernetes cluster, the nodes of the clusters are running on Google Cloud VM instances, the control plane and network is fully managed by GKE. GKE offers a sandboxing feature (https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/sandbox-pods ), based on gVisor (https://gvisor.dev/docs/ ) it protects the host kernel from untrusted code.
The key differences between Amazon Kinesis and Kafka are: Introducing data streamers! These services validate and route messages from one application to another, managing workload and message queues effectively. The result? Users process messages through a centralized processor and handle large data streams more efficiently. Amazon Kinesis and Apache Kafka are two data stream services.
There has been an e-commerce explosion this year as consumers seek safety and convenience from the comfort of their own homes using digital tools to purchase everything from durable hard goods to fashion accessories to daily living consumables like food perishables, cleaning products and even school supplies.
Snowflake met with Mark Stange-Tregear, Vice President of Analytics for Rakuten Rewards, and Andrew Parry, Vice President of IT Application Development for Office Depot, at Data Cloud Summit 2020. The Data Cloud is unlocking new ways of delivering products and services to customers, managing supply chains, and collaborating globally. Rakuten Rewards and Office Depot are going “all- in” on the Snowflake Data Cloud to transform their businesses. Q. How does data affect your business?
One of the highly anticipated events every year is the keynote from Dr. Werner Vogels at the annual AWS Reinvent conference. As CTO of Amazon, Dr. Vogels has considerable influence on product and engineering innovation that directly impacts hundreds of millions of users and developers. Here are three takeaways from Dr. Vogels’ keynote this year.
Building a multi-region or multi-cloud environment for your applications requires a lot of attention. In a typical deployment, you would have an API gateway running close to the several application runtimes. You should enhance your deployment to support different regions in a given cloud, or in an even more distributed and hybrid scenario, multiple services running across other public clouds and on-premise environments.
I’m excited to announce that Kong Enterprise, our modern, scalable service connectivity platform, is now available on top cloud marketplaces, including AWS Marketplace and GovCloud (US) regions, Azure Marketplace, Google Cloud Platform, and Red Hat Marketplace!
Snowflake is delighted to share the findings of a new Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study that examines the potential return on investment for organizations that procure Snowflake through Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace and then use Snowflake as a core part of your application’s architecture. We commissioned the study in partnership with AWS.
Public preview of the data lake export feature is now available. Snowflake announced a private preview of data lake export at the Snowflake virtual summit in June 2020. Data lake export is one of the key features of the data lake workload in the Snowflake Data Cloud. The feature makes Snowflake data accessible to the external data lake, and it enables customers to take advantage of Snowflake’s reliable and performant processing capabilities.
The ability to discover insights from past events, transactions and interactions is how many customers currently utilize Qlik. Qlik’s unique approach to Business Intelligence (BI) using an in-memory engine and intuitive interface has democratized BI for typical business users, who usually have little to no technical savvy. But, for many years, organizations have only been able to analyze metrics or KPIs of “what has happened” (i.e., descriptive analytics).
The ability to discover insights from past events, transactions and interactions is how many customers currently utilize Qlik. Qlik’s unique approach to Business Intelligence (BI) using an in-memory engine and intuitive interface has democratized BI for typical business users, who usually have little to no technical savvy. But, for many years, organizations have only been able to analyze metrics or KPIs of “what has happened” (i.e., descriptive analytics).
Your data can quickly get out of control when you’re working with multiple cloud storage services and applications throughout your organization. Complex cloud ecosystems can make it difficult to know what data you have, how it’s being managed, whether it’s safe, and how to use it effectively. Cloud data management platforms can stop this frustrating scenario in its tracks.
