In the fourth blog of our internal platform team series, Zsolt Márta explains how Bitrise uses Terraform Cloud to enable teams to manage resources in a fully self-served way.

Hitachi Vantara recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study to examine the value that customers could achieve using cloud and application modernization services from Hitachi Vantara. To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this investment, Forrester interviewed four decision-makers at companies with experience using cloud and app modernization services from Hitachi Vantara.

The idea of running compute and storing data in the cloud is no longer a novel concept. With the evolution of 5G and Internet of Things (IoT), this brings along the next evolution of edge storage demands. Today, around 10% of enterprise-generated data is created and processed outside a traditional centralized data center or cloud. By 2025, Gartner predicts this figure will reach 75%.

While new cloud native architectures are incredibly feature-rich, they can come with a high barrier to entry. Many getting started tutorials are pages long and can take forever to complete. But these always start with the first step of performing an installation. In the spirit of making the installation of Speedscale as simple as possible, we have designed a new interactive installer as part of the speedctl command line interface.

In a recent webinar, Functional (& Funny) Strategies for Modern Data Architecture, we combined comedy and practical strategies for migrating from Hadoop to AWS. Unravel Co-Founder and CTO Shivnath Babu moderated a discussion with AWS Principal Architect, Global Specialty Practice, Dipankar Ghosal and WANdisco CTO Paul Scott-Murphy. Here are some of the key takeaways from the event.

MeDirect Bank is a bank and financial services company based in Malta that provides services ranging from deposit accounts to mutual funds to wealth management. The company has evolved from its regional roots to become the third largest bank in Malta, with customers all over the world. And it’s done so by evolving with its customers’ needs; providing accessible, transparent services wherever customers are — physically or digitally.

Similar to the momentum that cloud technology has had in the business world, AI and machine learning are quickly becoming essential to the enterprise. 86% of companies now view AI as a “mainstream technology,” and corporate AI adoption rose 50% in 2021 from the year prior for initiatives such as service-operations optimization and product enhancement.

The benefits of moving your on-prem Spark Hadoop environment to Databricks are undeniable. A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) study reveals that deploying Databricks can pay for itself in less than six months, with a 417% ROI from cost savings and increased revenue & productivity over three years. But without the right methodology and tools, such modernization/migration can be a daunting task.