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March 2022

Ingesting Google Cloud Storage files to BigQuery using Cloud Functions and Serverless Spark

Apache Spark has become a popular platform as it can serve all of data engineering, data exploration, and machine learning use cases. However, Spark still requires the on-premises way of managing clusters and tuning infrastructure for each job.

Why Cloud Software Development is So Important for Your Business

If you’ve had your tent pitched in the tech space for a while, you should know that everyone talks about “the cloud.” About a decade ago, it was sort of an IT buzzword. Now? Cloud software development is the next step in the business software evolution, and the numbers do not lie. Eighty-nine percent of enterprises already use a multi-cloud strategy, with 80 percent leveraging a hybrid approach, combining private and public clouds. But here’s where it gets interesting.

Drive Retail Profitability, Stability with Snowflake's Retail Data Cloud

In 2022, retailers are still dealing with the lasting impacts of the global pandemic, including a decreased workforce, supply chain disruptions, and surging inflation. At the same time, now is the chance for a “long overdue great retail reset” that could promote stability and profitability, according to a recent Deloitte report.

From Data to Value: Building a Scalable Data Platform with Google Cloud

At the DataOps Unleashed 2022 conference, Google Cloud’s Head of Product Management for Open Source Data Analytics Abhishek Kashyap discussed how businesses are using Google Cloud to build secure and scalable data platforms. This article summarizes key takeaways from his presentation, Building a Scalable Data Platform with Google Cloud. Data is the fuel that drives informed decision-making and digital transformation.

Cloud Integration 101

Businesses and organizations of all types have embraced cloud integration to transform data into business intelligence. The reason for this is simple: more and more business operations are happening in hybrid cloud — or even fully cloud-to-cloud – environments, and without proper tools to manage data in the cloud, data can become siloed, overlooked, or lost altogether.

Accelerating Digital Transformation Through the Cloud

Digital transformation calls for creating newer business models to stay relevant and thrive in a dynamic ecosystem. Enterprises must continuously innovate to stay ahead of the curve, and the cloud is the catalyst that drives innovation. When businesses start to adapt their processes to a digital environment, they require scalability, cost and work efficiency, elasticity, and agility. Though cloud technology offers a plethora of benefits, it’s not an easy task. Engaging a dedicated cloud service provider for your cloud migration project will ease your cloud transition journey.

Accelerating Digital Transformation Through the Cloud

Whether you agree or not, conventional businesses have become redundant by the advent of technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, IoT and ML. Today, rapidly changing customer needs are forcing enterprises to evolve, adopt and devise strategies where they can surgically strike offers to a segment of few rather than blast a shotgun of offerings to an uninterested many.

Low-hanging fruits to quickly reduce cloud costs in 2022

A new year is always a good time to check your expenses. One expense that keeps on climbing constantly in many organizations is related to the cloud expenses, expected to expand up to $1 trillion by 2024, according to IDC. While this can be a good thing, indicating the business is scaling and cloud resources are in high demand, there is often a lot of waste coming from inefficient cloud usage, unnecessary SaaS tooling, endless logs, and more.

5 Success Stories That Show the Value of Enterprise Public Cloud

In our Five Enterprise Public Cloud Use Cases That Make a Difference eBook, we detail the successes a handful of Cloudera customers have had with CDP. You can download the eBook to get the whole story on each of the five customers and their successes, but in the meantime we want to give you an overview of these success use cases. Use case #1: A biopharmaceutical company doubles its R&D productivity

Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud

Healthcare and life sciences organizations are under unprecedented pressure to adapt and respond to changing patient needs and market conditions. The Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud enables healthcare and life sciences organizations to leverage the full potential of data to help deliver exceptional patient outcomes and accelerate medical innovation, while also enabling the highest levels of data security, governance, and compliance.

The Ultimate Guide to Azure Synapse Analytics

Five things you should know about Azure Synapse Analytics: Azure Synapse Analytics is a scalable, cloud-based data warehousing solution from Microsoft. Upon its launch, Microsoft described it as “the next iteration of Azure SQL Data Warehouse.” In addition to offering all of the technology and features of that platform, Azure Synapse also incorporates business intelligence, data analytics, and machine learning tools for both relational and non-relational data.

Cloud Migration Assurance for Digital Payment Applications

The main reason for having digital payment applications in the cloud is that customers can pay from anywhere if they have internet access. The digital payment application to be migrated to the #cloud should run flawlessly in the cloud environment. If migrated and implemented in the correct way, a cloud-based digital payment system will bring added convenience to customers and retailers and provide enhanced data security and reduce maintenance costs, says Payel Ghosh, Associate Principal Consultant, Delivery, at Cigniti Technologies.

The SaaS Providers Handbook for 2022

Many companies find that it is not enough to simply keep up with the competition in their industry. Such well-known organizations as Amazon and Microsoft continually expand their service offerings, making it hard to compete. Innovation continues to be a huge buzzword in the software industry. Tech companies need a reliable way to provide clients with what they need most, which is service wherever and whenever they need it. One industry that does this best is the SaaS (Software as a Service) space.

Hybrid API Management: Run Your API Gateways Anywhere

With the fast-growing popularity of cloud computing, an increasing number of organizations are now moving towards cloud-based solutions. Gartner predicts that1, "by 2020, 90 percent of organizations will adopt hybrid infrastructure management" where some parts of a solution would be in the cloud while other parts would be in traditional on-premises data centers.