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It takes vision, purpose, and skill to unlock the power of data. It also takes the right strategy. For ExxonMobil, Ares Trading (Merck), and the University of California San Diego (UCSD), the right strategy is taking full advantage of the cloud. All three organizations have partnered with Cloudera, leveraging a hybrid or cloud-based architecture to improve the lives of the people who depend on their organizations’ data.

ETL pipelines help companies extract, transform, and load data so it is ready to provide insights and value to the company. But running a smooth data operation depends on building reliable and scalable data ingestion pipelines. SaaS vendors like Keboola and Azure Data Factory take away the heavy lifting.

There is an explosion of data from a myriad of sources and an insatiable demand to consume it. Traditional manual ETL methods are too brittle to keep up. Leaving many a BI team struggling to provide meaningful business insights quickly.

As data continues to grow at an exponential rate, our customers are increasingly looking to advance and scale operations through digital transformation and the cloud. These modern digital businesses are also dealing with unprecedented rates of data volume, which is exploding from terabytes to petabytes and even exabytes which could prove difficult to manage.

After you’ve built your microservices-backed application, it’s time to deploy and connect them. Luckily, there are many cloud providers to choose from, and you can even mix and match. Many organizations, like Australia Post, are taking the mix-and-match approach, embracing a multi-cloud architecture. The microservices that make up a system no longer have to stay on a single cloud.

Many organizations have been able to accomplish impressive things using Kong products, including Kong Konnect, Kong Enterprise, Kong Gateway, Kuma and Insomnia. We recently honored four of these enterprises in the inaugural Cloud Connectivity Innovator Awards program during Kong Summit 2021.