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Over the past few months industry analysts have been making some pretty controversial recommendations for data management in the cloud. For a thoughtful and entertaining analysis, I strongly recommend you spend a few minutes watching the keynote session by Pat Moorhead, CEO Moor Insights & Strategy, at the Evolve 2022 Data event in New York. His takeaway: “The world is very much going to be hybrid and multi-cloud.” His delivery—priceless.

What does it take to be successful in the world of data? We asked DJ Patil, one of the most influential data scientists in the world and guest keynote speaker at the 2023 Modern Data Stack Conference.

The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Machine Learning Operations Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment is an annual study that evaluates technology vendors based on a comprehensive framework. It provides an in-depth quantitative and qualitative assessment of MLOps solution vendors in a long-form research report, to help buyers make important technology decisions that will create long term business success.

The world is full of different types of goals. Consider football. The goal in football is at the end of the field. A runner either crosses the goal or they don't, when trying to make a touchdown. Or, consider basketball. In basketball, when a player shoots the ball, the player’s shot either goes through the net or it doesn’t. Alternatively, consider ice hockey. When a hockey player shoots the puck, it either goes into the net — or it doesn’t.

The growth of big data has scattered data sources throughout the enterprise, tucking them away in silos and making them hard to find. But there is more to data than just storing information in an operational data store or running analytics from a data warehouse. For example, regulated industries have requirements needing tighter control over the data.

Joint customers can move faster with more visibility across their entire data stack, helping data teams collaborate better with increased trust in their data.

Cloudera has been providing enterprise support for Apache NiFi since 2015, helping hundreds of organizations take control of their data movement pipelines on premises and in the public cloud. Working with these organizations has taught us a lot about the needs of developers and administrators when it comes to developing new dataflows and supporting them in mission-critical production environments.