Heard on the Street – 4/25/2024

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Heard on the Street – 4/18/2024

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Why Accelerating Data Engineering Across Public Clouds and Private Data Centers is a Game Changer

In this contributed article, Rob Gibbon, Product Manager at Canonical, suggests that data engineers typically know what they need to get done. The problem is that their environment doesn’t always make it easy. If you’re working on premise, it can be hard to get data-intensive solutions off the ground quickly. However, cloud solutions come with lock-in and unpredictable pricing. The game-changer in this scenario is a hybrid solution that will allow you to accelerate data engineering.

Heard on the Street – 4/11/2024

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Cloud Migration Alone Won’t Solve Data Quality. Here’s Why CDOs Need a More Holistic Approach

In this contributed article, Emmet Townsend, VP of Engineering at Inrupt, discusses how cloud migration is just one step to achieving comprehensive data quality programs, not the entire strategy.

The Synergy of AI and Cloud Transformation in the Payment Sector: Advancing Security, Scalability, and Innovation

In this contributed article, technical leader Kamala Manju Kesavan discusses how AI and cloud computing research in the payment industry sheds light on a prosperous arena of inventions and transformation. In the near future, the payment sector will probably welcome advanced technologies such as blockchain, biometric authentication, and AI-powered solutions, which will lead to transactions that will be more secure, rapid, and user-friendly.

Embracing Composable Cloud is Key to Operationalizing AI

In this contributed article, Kevin Cochrane, Chief Marketing Officer, Vultr, believes that the winners in the race to operationalize AI will be the companies that can trace their success to the composable cloud and its benefits. Unfortunately, not all cloud and service providers embrace composability. Let composability be your primary criterion for choosing the vendors you will work with to power your AI operations.

Heard on the Street – 3/28/2024

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

AWS and NVIDIA Extend Collaboration to Advance Generative AI Innovation

GTC—Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced that the new NVIDIA Blackwell GPU platform—unveiled by NVIDIA at GTC 2024—is coming to AWS. AWS will offer the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip and B100 Tensor Core GPUs, extending the companies’ longstanding strategic collaboration to deliver the most secure and advanced infrastructure, software, and services to help customers unlock new generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

Heard on the Street – 3/21/2024

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.