BigQuery is used by organizations of all sizes, and to meet the diverse needs of our users, BigQuery offers highly flexible pricing options. For enterprise customers, BigQuery’s flat-rate billing model is predictable and gives businesses direct control over cost and performance. We’re now making the flat-rate billing model even more accessible by lowering the minimum size to 100 slots, so you can get started faster and quicker.

The Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) service is a managed data warehouse that runs Cloudera’s powerful engines on a containerized architecture. It is part of the new Cloudera Data Platform, or CDP, which went live on Microsoft Azure earlier this year. The CDW service lets you meet SLAs, onboard new use cases with zero friction, and minimize cost. Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of CDW on Microsoft Azure.

Organizational leaders worldwide agree that data governance is important. However, data governance programs in most companies are still being planned or in progress. In a 2020 Dataversity report¹, only 12 percent of companies had fully implemented programs, while 38 percent of programs were a work in progress, and 31 percent were just getting started. That’s because companies often run into roadblocks while executing data governance. Below are five common obstacles organizations face.

The life sciences industry is at a turning point.

As the business world continues to integrate AI and machine learning to better manage big data processes, one area that arguably has benefitted the most is business monitoring. From IT management to business intelligence, the last few years have seen a drastic shift in how companies are monitoring their data.

We are delighted to announce that Iguazio has been named a sample vendor in the 2020 Gartner Hype Cycle for Data Science and Machine Learning, as well as four additional Gartner Hype Cycles for Infrastructure Strategies, Compute Infrastructure, Hybrid Infrastructure Services, and Analytics and Business Intelligence, among industry leaders such as DataRobot, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, IBM and Microsoft Azure (some of whom are also close partners of ours).

Earlier this year, we launched a unique partnership with Fortune Magazine, with the first-ever data analytics site supporting the publication of the annual Fortune 500 list. Today, we extended that partnership with the debut of the “History of the Fortune Global 500,” our interactive data analytics site timed with the publication of the 30th anniversary of the Fortune Global 500 list.