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Pillars of Knowledge, Best Practices for Data Governance

With hackers now working overtime to expose business data or implant ransomware processes, data security is largely IT managers’ top priority. And if data security tops IT concerns, data governance should be their second priority. Not only is it critical to protect data, but data governance is also the foundation for data-driven businesses and maximizing value from data analytics. Requirements, however, have changed significantly in recent years.

Accelerating Insight and Uptime: Predictive Maintenance

Historically, maintenance has been driven by a preventative schedule. Today, preventative maintenance, where actions are performed regardless of actual condition, is giving way to Predictive, or Condition-Based, maintenance, where actions are based on actual, real-time insights into operating conditions. While both are far superior to traditional Corrective maintenance (action only after a piece of equipment fails), Predictive is by far the most effective.

Minimizing Supply Chain Disruptions with Advanced Analytics

January 2020 is a distant memory, but for most, the early days of the pandemic was a time that will be ingrained in memories for decades, if not generations. Over the last 18 months, supply chain issues have dominated our nightly news, social feeds and family conversations at the dinner table. Some but not all have stemmed from the pandemic.

Replace and Boost your Apache Storm Topologies with Apache NiFi Flows

Recently, I worked with a large fortune 500 customer on their migration from Apache Storm to Apache NiFi. If you’re asking yourself, “Isn’t Storm for complex event processing and NiFi for simple event processing?”, you’re correct. A few customers chose a complex event engine like Apache Storm for their simple event processing, even when Apache NiFi is the more practical choice, cutting drastically down on SDLC (software development lifecycle) time.

Five Strategies to Accelerate Data Product Development

With this first article of the two-part series on data product strategies, I am presenting some of the emerging themes in data product development and how they inform the prerequisites and foundational capabilities of an Enterprise data platform that would serve as the backbone for developing successful data product strategies.

Beginner's Guide to Cloudera Operational Database

My name is Shanmukha Kota and I am a recent graduate from University at Buffalo. I interned with Cloudera last summer and joined Cloudera as a software engineer a couple of weeks ago and this is my first experience with CDP and CDP Operational Database. For a new hire college graduate in the industry with only academic experience with HBase, I can only say it is very simple and easy to set up and work with CDP Operational Database.

Accelerate Offloading to Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) with Procedural SQL Support

Did you know Cloudera customers, such as SMG and Geisinger, offloaded their legacy DW environment to Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) to take advantage of CDW’s modern architecture and best-in-class performance? In addition to substantial cost savings upon moving to CDW, Geisinger is also able to search through hundreds of million patient note records in seconds providing better treatment to their patients.

A Reference Architecture for the Cloudera Private Cloud Base Data Platform

The release of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud Base edition provides customers with a next generation hybrid cloud architecture. This blog post provides an overview of best practice for the design and deployment of clusters incorporating hardware and operating system configuration, along with guidance for networking and security as well as integration with existing enterprise infrastructure.

Optimizing Risk and Exposure Management - Roundtable Highlights

We recently hosted a roundtable focused on optimizing risk and exposure management with data insights. For financial institutions and insurers, risk and exposure management has always been a fundamental tenet of the business. Now, risk management has become exponentially complicated in multiple dimensions. In this session we explored what firms are doing to approach the uncertainty with more predictability.