The Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) service is a managed data warehouse that runs Cloudera’s powerful engines on a containerized architecture. It is part of the new Cloudera Data Platform, or CDP, which went live on Microsoft Azure earlier this year. The CDW service lets you meet SLAs, onboard new use cases with zero friction, and minimize cost. Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of CDW on Microsoft Azure.

The Industry Transformation category at the Data Impact Awards has never been more timely. While the business world is mostly focused on digital transformation, Cloudera and our customers know that true, data-driven change is reshaping whole enterprises and entire industries.

Cloud for analytics may be the biggest bait and switch in recent history. Until now. Not long ago, cloud was billed as the promised land – a mystical paradise of flexibility, scalability, performance and, best of all, lower costs than we ever thought possible.

Today’s public sector organizations and government agencies demand a new standard for communicating and sharing information. That includes data-rich content that moves through environments, networks and locales. From being stored, analyzed and shared, to quickly and effectively moving between environments, to spinning up in clusters and informing endless applications—data is more critical than ever.

How Cloud Computing is evolving alongside Big Data, Analytics, and AI in Financial Services. New technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, big data, and prescriptive analytics are changing the way the Financial Services sector does business. With evolving tech comes both new opportunities as well as different risks, and companies within the space must innovate and embrace new ideas as shifting business conditions and changing consumer preferences dictate new norms.

Medical devices have become increasingly complex as technology evolves, and the sheer number of these devices now being worn or implanted has grown exponentially over the past few years. There are currently over 500,000 different types of smart, connected medical devices in use that have the ability to collect, share, or store private patient data and protected health information (PHI)(1).

The next generation of 5G networks are unlocking a mind-bending array of new use cases. Blistering speed, super low latency, and access to more powerful mobile hardware bring VR, AR and ultra high-definition experiences into sharp focus for the near future. But there’s a bigger shift being driven by 5G, and it’s not actually about speed at all. It’s about re-thinking the modern telco business model.

Navistar is a leading global manufacturer of commercial trucks. With a fleet of 350,000 vehicles, unscheduled maintenance and vehicle breakdowns created ongoing disruption to their business. Navistar required a diagnostics platform that would help them predict when a vehicle needed maintenance to minimize downtime.

Apache Hive supports transactional tables which provide ACID guarantees. There has been a significant amount of work that has gone into hive to make these transactional tables highly performant. Apache Spark provides some capabilities to access hive external tables but it cannot access hive managed tables. To access hive managed tables from spark Hive Warehouse Connector needs to be used.

Over the last 25 years, I have an unparalleled front seat to the digital transformation that is now accelerating in the connected manufacturing and automotive industry. Not many people have had the opportunity to witness the transformation and be as active in this area as I have; I consider myself lucky.