Becoming a data-driven organization is not exactly getting any easier. Businesses are flooded with ever more data. Although it is true that more data enables more insight, the effort needed to separate the wheat from the chaff grows exponentially. Doing so and truly understanding the data is more important than ever, especially when data privacy regulations are tightening.

CDP Operational Database (COD) is an autonomous transactional database powered by Apache HBase and Apache Phoenix. It is one of the main Data Services that runs on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Public Cloud. You can access COD right from your CDP console. With COD, application developers can now leverage the power of HBase and Phoenix without the overheads that are often related to deployment and management.

I’ve had the pleasure to participate in a few Commercial Lines insurance industry events recently and as a prior Commercial Lines insurer myself, I am thrilled with the progress the industry is making using data and analytics. However, I do not think Commercial Lines insurance gets the credit it deserves for the industry-leading role it has played in analytics. Commercial Lines truly is an “uber industry” with respect to data.

As Halloween night quickly approaches, there is only one question on every kid’s mind: how can I maximize my candy haul this year with the best possible candy? This kind of question lends itself perfectly to data science approaches that enable quick and intuitive analysis of data across multiple sources.

There are many good uses of data. With data, we can monitor our business, the overall business, or specific business units. We can segment based on the customer verticals or whether they run in the public or private cloud. We can understand customers better, see usage patterns and main consumption drivers. We can find customer pain points, see where they get stuck, and understand how different bugs affect them.

With the launch of the Cloudera Public Cloud 7.2.12, the Streams Messaging for Data Hub deployments have gotten some interesting new features! From this release, Streams Messaging templates will support scaling with automatic rebalancing allowing you to grow or shrink your Apache Kafka cluster based on demand.

With the latest release of Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) we added new CLI capabilities that allow you to automate data flow deployments, making it easier than ever before to incorporate Apache NiFi flow deployments into your CI/CD pipelines. This blog post walks you through the data flow development lifecycle and how you can use APIs in CDP Public Cloud to fully automate your flow deployments.

We are just over one week until the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, COP26 convenes in Glasgow. As governments gather to push forward climate and renewable energy initiatives aligned with the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, financial institutions and asset managers will monitor the event with keen interest.