Vaccine development became the top priority for the life sciences industry – delivering new vaccines at unprecedented speed and maneuvering large-scale production processes. Numerous factors helped accelerate the vaccine roll-out including prior research, genome sequencing, jumping the FDA approval queue and a plethora of testing volunteers. So now that we’ve experienced these advancements, how can the industry keep momentum to speed-up innovative solutions across healthcare?

Sometimes it takes a billion-dollar mistake to bring the murkier side of data ethics into sharp focus. Equifax found this out to their own cost in 2017 when they failed to protect the data of almost 150 million users globally. The catastrophic breach was bad enough on its own — but Equifax waited three months to go public with the news. As the public furore rose to a crescendo, the credit organization dragged its feet on disclosing exactly what kind of information had been leaked.

State and local governments generate and store enormous amounts of data essential to their ability to deliver citizen services. But how can they capitalize on all of their data to become engines of growth and innovation, empowering and enhancing their ability to provide services and better serve their communities?

Please join us on March 24 for Future of Data meetup where we do a deep dive into Iceberg with CDP

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented global economic landscape that is dominated by loose monetary policies, low borrowing costs and influx of capital in the equity markets. Against that backdrop, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activity has surged since 2021 as companies are trying to take advantage of the current environment and adapt to the new business realities shaped by the global pandemic.

Data Science tools, algorithms, and practices are rapidly evolving to solve business problems on an unprecedented scale. This makes data science one of the most exciting fields to be in. As exciting as it is, practitioners face their fair share of challenges. There are well-known barriers that slow down predictive modeling or application development. Finding the right data and getting access to it are two of the top pain points we hear from our customers.

Data is the true currency of the digital age, and it plays an indispensable role in defining and accelerating the mission of Government agencies. Every level of government is awash in data (both structured and unstructured) that is perpetually in motion. It is constantly generated – and always growing in volume – by an ever-growing range of sources, from IoT sensors and other connected devices at the edge to web and social media to video and more.

With the launch of CDP Public Cloud 7.2.14, Cloudera Streams Messaging for Data Hub deployments has gotten some powerful new features! In this release, the Streams Messaging templates in Data Hub will come with Apache Kafka 2.8 and Cruise Control 2.5 providing new core features and fixes. KConnect has been added and gains additional capabilities with new connectors and Stateless Apache NiFi capabilities which can run NiFi Flows as connectors.

Whether the enterprise uses dozens or hundreds of data sources for multi-function analytics, all organizations can run into data governance issues. Bad data governance practices lead to data breaches, lawsuits, and regulatory fines — and no enterprise is immune.

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.