Real Partnership Means More Than Just APIs
Elena Cuevas of Confluent shares that partnerships thrive when it’s not “you or me”, but what you can do together.
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Streaming Data at Scale with Strategic Cloud Partners | Life Is But A Stream Podcast
Strategic partnerships don’t work without trust. And in the data streaming world, trust begins with transparency. In this episode, Elena Cuevas, Sr. Manager of Cloud Partner Solutions Engineering at Confluent, joins Joseph Morais to unpack what it takes to collaborate with hyperscalers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. From managing competitive overlaps to future-proofing enterprise data architectures, Elena shares her battle-tested strategies for driving alignment across complex stakeholder ecosystems.
How Guarantees and SLAs Take the Risk Out of Enterprise IT Infrastructure
For many IT leaders, the shift from self-run on-premises infrastructure to consumption-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) represents a strategic opportunity. The promise of scalability, cost-efficiency and agility while maintaining greater control and security is undeniable. But so are concerns about reliability, control and governance. That’s where guarantees and service level agreements (SLAs) come in.
Why Your Data Strategy Needs to Be Open, Now More Than Ever
I’ve been on both sides of the table, as a CIO shaping enterprise strategy and now as a CEO delivering outcomes for thousands of customers. And one belief has never changed: your data should serve your business, not someone else’s agenda. That belief matters now more than ever. Salesforce’s intent to acquire Informatica is the latest signal of a growing trend: consolidation over choice.
Introducing BigQuery ObjectRef: Supercharge your multimodal data and AI processing
The new ObjectRef data type helps to integrate unstructured data like images and audio into existing BigQuery tables.
ThoughtSpot is a Leader in the next era of Agentic Analytics and BI
For too long, businesses have been adrift in a sea of static dashboards and colorful visualizations, mistaking activity for insight. They call it business intelligence, but in reality, it's just more noise. These legacy dashboards are inherently unintelligent; they might answer your first question, but they immediately force you to create ten more dashboards to get subsequent answers. It’s a vicious cycle of dashboard sprawl, not true intelligence.
How to Unlock More Powerful Data Visualizations in Qlik With Vizlib
Data is everywhere, but transforming it into clear, actionable insights is easier said than done. For organizations using Qlik, the platform offers a strong foundation for analysis, but how do you take your dashboards from functional to exceptional? Enter Vizlib from insightsoftware, the game-changing Qlik add-on that empowers users to turn basic dashboards into engaging data stories.
Unlocking Seamless AI: ClearML's Model-as-a-Service Delivers One-Click LLM Deployment with Unrivaled Control
By Erez Schnaider, Technical Product Marketing Manager, ClearML The promise of artificial intelligence, particularly with the advent of LLMs, is transformative. Organizations are eager to harness this power, integrate AI into their products, and automate complex processes in order to materialize the lofty promises of generative AI – efficiency, deep domain knowledge, and a competitive edge.
How a CDAO goes from baseball to insurance with Don Vu - New York Life
Step inside the world of data innovation as Cindi Howson talks with Don Vu, SVP and Chief Data and Analytics Officer at New York Life. They'll reveal how a 180-year-old institution is leveraging cutting-edge AI to make experiences proactive and intelligent. Hear how New York Life utilizes their innovative "GuideMe" tool to supercharge agent and client financial planning, tackles the "last mile problem" in data operationalization, and ensures data quality is paramount for both structured and unstructured data.
Closing the AI readiness gap with better data integration
In this episode, Fivetran speaks with Tim Veil, Principal at Two Bear Capital, to unpack the challenges businesses face in operationalizing AI — and why data strategy, not just data volume, is the key to unlocking real business value.