Note: This is part 2 of the Make the Leap New Year’s Resolution series. For part 1 please go here. When we introduced Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE) in the Public Cloud in 2020 it was a culmination of many years of working alongside companies as they deployed Apache Spark based ETL workloads at scale.

In recent years, Ethical AI has become an area of increased importance to organisations. Advances in the development and application of Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms, require greater care to ensure that the ethics embedded in previous rule-based systems are not lost. This has led to Ethical AI being an increasingly popular search term and the subject of many industry analyst reports and papers.

After the launch of Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) on AWS a few months ago, we are thrilled to announce that CDF-PC is now generally available on Microsoft Azure, allowing NiFi users on Azure to run their data flows in a cloud-native runtime. With CDF-PC, NiFi users can import their existing data flows into a central catalog from where they can be deployed to a Kubernetes based runtime through a simple flow deployment wizard or with a single CLI command.

Cloudera has been recognized as a Visionary in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS) and for the first time, evaluated CDP Operational Database (COD) against the 12 critical capabilities for Operational Databases.

This blog post provides an overview of the HBase to CDP Operational Database (COD) migration process. CDP Operational Database enables developers to quickly build future-proof applications that are architected to handle data evolution. It helps developers automate and simplify database management with capabilities like auto-scale and is fully integrated with Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).

Okay, I admit, the title is a little click-batey, but it does hold some truth! I spent the holidays up in the mountains, and if you live in the northern hemisphere like me, you know that means that I spent the holidays either celebrating or cursing the snow. When I was a kid, during this time of year we would always do an art project making snowflakes. We would bust out the scissors, glue, paper, string, and glitter, and go to work.

As I meet with our customers, there are always a range of discussions regarding the use of the cloud for financial services data and analytics. Customers vary widely on the topic of public cloud – what data sources, what use cases are right for public cloud deployments – beyond sandbox, experimentation efforts. Private cloud continues to gain traction with firms realizing the benefits of greater flexibility and dynamic scalability.

According to 451 Research, 96% of enterprises are actively pursuing a hybrid IT strategy. Modern, real-time businesses require accelerated cycles of innovation that are expensive and difficult to maintain with legacy data platforms. Cloud technologies and respective service providers have evolved solutions to address these challenges.

The start of a new year is a perfect time to reflect on what was accomplished and look forward, re-evaluate what we can do better. Change, although difficult at first, can also be very rewarding. That’s why I was excited to see similar sentiments shared at Thoughtspot beyond.2021 to move beyond the traditional dashboards of the past.