When power company executives were asked to list the most important issues facing their organizations, 45% overwhelmingly cited their top concern as “renewables, sustainability or the environment.” At the same time, global energy consumption continues to rise faster than the population. These two realities are reshaping the international energy sector. The push to produce more energy, in a greener manner, is propelling the industry to re-imagine the power grid of the future.
Organizations are more often running data and applications on multiple clouds, and that’s great. However, multi-cloud isn’t enough. To let loose the true power of data on your business, you must be cross-cloud. Cross-cloud means data moves easily between multiple public clouds without any additional work. It means never worrying about where your data and applications live or where your business and technical people are located.
Support for unstructured data is now in public preview! That’s one of many of the exciting announcements made in September, in addition to a new serverless tasks feature, expanded public cloud regions, enhanced business continuity capabilities, and several new providers on Snowflake Data Marketplace.
Until not very long ago, many organizations defined business strategies based on isolated figures used by isolated teams. Unfortunately for them, that approach just won’t cut it anymore. Instead, we are fastly moving to a world where data will be the critical asset for businesses, and handling it accurately will be essential to survival.
As organizations wrangle with the explosive growth in data volume they are presented with today, efficiency and scalability of storage become pivotal to operating a successful data platform for driving business insight and value. Apache Ozone is a distributed, scalable, and high performance object store, available with Cloudera Data Platform Private Cloud.