The Corner Office is pressing their direct reports across the company to “Move To The Cloud” to increase agility and reduce costs. And next to those legacy ERP, HCM, SCM and CRM systems, that mysterious elephant in the room – that “Big Data” platform running in the data center that is driving much of the company’s analytics and BI – looks like a great potential candidate.

Live data-streaming offers businesses exciting new opportunities to transform the way they operate, leveraging real-time insights to drive better decision making and enhance operational efficiency. To find out more about how live-streaming data might impact the sector I sat down for a chat with Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Head of Product Marketing in Cloudera’s data-in-motion Business Unit.

Recently, we created the Sauce Labs Open Program Office to focus our attention internally on how we support and contribute to the open source community. Last week, we proudly launched a new web site with comprehensive information about the office, including best practices, contribution guidelines for the Sauce team, and a new blog where Diego Molina and Christian Bromann will write regularly about all things open source. This article is cross-posted from the new blog.

Back in 1977, an English mod/rock band called The Jam released a track called “The Modern World.” The same year also saw the dawn of the home computer, with the Apple II and Commodore PET 2001 going on sale at a time when the mainframe was going strong. Fast forward to 2020, and, despite many false claims of its death, the mainframe remains strong; however, to get the most value of from the data inside, mainframe modernization is key.