The keynote presentation at DataOps Unleashed 2022 featured a roundtable panel discussion on the State of DataOps and the Modern Data Stack. Moderated by Unravel Data Co-Founder and CEO Kunal Agarwal, this session features insights from three investors who have a unique vantage point on what’s changing and emerging in the modern data world, the effects of these changes, and the opportunities being created.
At the DataOps Unleashed 2022 conference, Luis Carlos Cruz Huertas, Head of Technology Infrastructure & Automation at DBS Bank, discussed how the bank has developed a framework whereby they translate millions of telemetry data points into actionable recommendations and even self-healing capabilities.
Apache Impala is used today by over 1,000 customers to power their analytics in on premise as well as cloud-based deployments. Large user communities of analysts and developers benefit from Impala’s fast query execution, helping them get their work done more effectively. For these users performance and concurrency are always top of mind.
Risk management is a highly dynamic discipline these days. Stress testing is a particular area that has become even more important throughout the pandemic. Stress tests conducted by authorities such as the Federal Reserve Bank in the US are designed to keenly monitor the financial stability of the banking sector, especially during economic downturns such as those brought on by the pandemic.
Over the past few years, we’ve seen incredible growth in the number of data apps being built on Snowflake, including large customer-facing apps from companies such as BlackRock, Instacart, Lacework, and others. We’re proud of the fact that our platform helps developers bring these applications to life faster, scale better, and provide more powerful insights to their users, whether they be employees, partners, or customers.
New edition enables data professionals to gain end-to-end visibility and more effectively optimize cost and performance of modern data stack
Today, we’re excited to announce the Unravel Winter Release ! This winter release introduces major enhancements and improvements across the platform, including comprehensive cost management for Databricks, support for Delta Lake on Databricks, data observability for Google BigQuery, interactive pre-check before installation and upgrade.
Data may be everywhere, but it isn’t free. It takes a lot of work and infrastructure to turn raw data into useful insights. Research suggests that the cost of handling data is only going to increase, by as much as 50% over five years. The same source suggests that part of that cost comes from confusion — users may spend up to 40% of their time searching for data and up to 30% of their time on data cleansing. The issue here is data trust.
Has your company faced a ransomware attack yet? If not, count yourself lucky, for now. A June 2021 article in Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that ransomware will cost its victims approximately $265 billion annually by 2031. And, according to CRN, “Victims of the 10 biggest cyber and ransomware attacks of 2021 were hit with ransom demands totaling nearly $320 million.”
