In my previous blog post, I shared examples of how data provides the foundation for a modern organization to understand and exceed customers’ expectations. However, the important role data occupies extends beyond customer experience and revenue, as it becomes increasingly central in optimizing internal processes for the long-term growth of an organization.

Should your data team focus on business problems and use cases, or expand into more complex areas like predictive analytics?

At Talend, we believe achieving healthier data is essential for business success. Safeguarding private data and staying in compliance with global regulations leads to healthier data by significantly decreasing risk – reducing the potential of having to pay dizzying fines or suffering a data breach that destroys customer relationships and trust.

Once upon an IT time, everything was a “point product,” a specific application designed to do a single job inside a desktop PC, server, storage array, network, or mobile device. Point solutions are still used every day in many enterprise systems, but as IT continues to evolve, the platform approach beats point solutions in almost every use case. A few years ago, there were several choices of data deduplication apps for storage, and now, it’s a standard function in every system.

Snowflake is happy to announce the availability of the Object Tagging feature in public preview today! This feature makes it easier for enterprises to know and control their data by applying business context, such as tags that identify data objects as sensitive, PII, or belonging to a cost center. Object Tagging broadens Snowflake’s native data governance capabilities by adding to existing governance capabilities such as Snowflake’s Dynamic Data Masking and Row Access Policies.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to standardize taste. The myriad culinary preferences and gastric demands of the American population are reflected in the $997B valuation of the U.S. packaged food market in 2020. There has also been a push in recent years to augment trips to the grocery store with at-home meal kits and food delivery services, a trend further accelerated by the onset of quarantine restrictions.

Everyone knows that more and more data is moving to the cloud. According to the latest research, 94% of all enterprises use cloud services and 48% of businesses store classified and important data in the cloud. While the cloud is ubiquitous, in practice it consists of data infrastructures in various locations around the world. The question of where the cloud data infrastructure storing your specific data is located is becoming increasingly important.

With the release of CDP Private Cloud (PvC) Base 7.1.7, you can look forward to new features, enhanced security, and better platform performance to help your business drive faster insights and value. We understand that migrating your data platform to the latest version can be an intricate task, and at Cloudera we’ve worked hard to simplify this process for all our customers.

As businesses look to scale-out storage, they need a storage layer that is performant, reliable and scalable. With Apache Ozone on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), they can implement a scale-out model and build out their next generation storage architecture without sacrificing security, governance and lineage. CDP integrates its existing Shared Data Experience (SDX) with Ozone for an easy transition, so you can begin utilizing object storage on-prem.