There’s no doubt that cloud has become ubiquitous, and thank goodness for that in 2020. We wouldn’t have survived the challenges of this year without cloud. It’s supported everything, from the sudden changes in the way we work to the way we access healthcare and even shop for vital goods. While cloud is the vehicle, it’s what sits on it that makes it so valuable — data.

On August 18, we completed our Enterprise Data Cloud vision of bringing a truly hybrid cloud experience with the general availability of Cloudera Data Platform Private Cloud (CDP Private Cloud). CDP Private Cloud, which is based on Kubernetes (RedHat OpenShift), extends cloud-native speed, simplicity and economics for the connected data lifecycle to the on-prem world, enabling IT to respond to business needs faster and deliver rock-solid service levels so people can be more productive with data.

Live data-streaming offers businesses exciting new opportunities to transform the way they operate, leveraging real-time insights to drive better decision making and enhance operational efficiency. To find out more about how live-streaming data might impact the financial services sector, I sat down for a chat with Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Head of Product Marketing in Cloudera’s data-in-motion Business Unit. If you missed Part 1 of our Q&A, you can catch-up on it here.

Evaluating anomalies and unpredicted events like pandemics and ESG concerns In part II of the series, we sat down for an interview with Dr. Richard Harmon, Managing Director of Financial Services at Cloudera, to find out more about how the industry is adopting new technology. You can catch-up and read part 1 of the series, here. Thank you for joining us for part two of our discussion around data, analytics and machine learning within the Financial Service Sector Dr. Harmon.

With only about 35% of machine learning models making into production in the enterprise (IDC), it’s no wonder that production machine learning has become one of the most important focus areas for data scientists and ML engineers alike. As you may remember, we recently announced a full set of MLOps capabilities in Cloudera Machine Learning, our cloud native machine learning tool for the cloud.

In the last blog with Deloitte’s Marc Beierschoder, we talked about what the hybrid cloud is, why it can benefit a business and what the key blockers often are in implementation. You can read it here.

The Corner Office is pressing their direct reports across the company to “Move To The Cloud” to increase agility and reduce costs. And next to those legacy ERP, HCM, SCM and CRM systems, that mysterious elephant in the room – that “Big Data” platform running in the data center that is driving much of the company’s analytics and BI – looks like a great potential candidate.

Live data-streaming offers businesses exciting new opportunities to transform the way they operate, leveraging real-time insights to drive better decision making and enhance operational efficiency. To find out more about how live-streaming data might impact the sector I sat down for a chat with Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Head of Product Marketing in Cloudera’s data-in-motion Business Unit.

2020 may well go down as the year where what seems impossible today, did become possible tomorrow. It’s been a year filled with disruption and uncertainty. One day we were all going to the office, and the next we were working from home. Businesses had to literally switch operations, and enable better collaboration and access to data in an instant — while streamlining processes to accommodate a whole new way of doing things.

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is implemented by the US federal government to provide a direct incentive for businesses to keep their employees on the payroll, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. PPP assists qualified businesses retain their workforce as well as help pay for related business expenses. Data from the US Treasury website show which companies received PPP loans and how many jobs were retained. The US Treasury approved approximately one million PPP loans across the US.