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Announcing the General Availability of Azure Private Link and Azure Storage firewall support for Databricks SQL Serverless

databricks

We are excited to announce the upcoming general availability of Azure Private Link support for Databricks SQL (DBSQL) Serverless, planned in April 2024.

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Aligning Velox and Apache Arrow: Towards composable data management

Engineering at Meta

We’ve partnered with Voltron Data and the Arrow community to align and converge Apache Arrow with Velox , Meta’s open source execution engine. Apache Arrow 15 includes three new format layouts developed through this partnership: StringView, ListView, and Run-End-Encoding (REE). This new convergence helps Meta and the larger community build data management systems that are unified, more efficient, and composable.

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Documenting Critical Data Elements

TDAN

Many Data Governance or Data Quality programs focus on “critical data elements,” but what are they and what are some key features to document for them? A critical data element is any data element in your organization that has a high impact on your organization’s ability to execute its business strategy.

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Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture

Confluent

Discover how to build resilient data pipelines with Confluent Data Portal. Learn essential strategies for isolating upstream systems and empowering downstream consumers.

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Strengthening Cyber Resilience through Efficient Data Management: A Response to M-21-31

databricks

In today's environment, proactive cybersecurity is crucial to any public sector agency. For many organizations, log data that security professionals need for effective.

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7 Ways AI Will Transform Data Storage

Dataversity

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) over the past year has transformed just about everything – ushering in a new era of innovation and growth the world has never seen. The same goes for data storage, where the technologies’ impact will be transformative, enabling greater business agility that companies need to […] The post 7 Ways AI Will Transform Data Storage appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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The Art of Lean Governance: Addressing the Elephant in the Room

TDAN

Hands down one of the most frequent observations when walking the data factory at different clients is the excessive use of spreadsheets for data collection and purification. These spreadsheets are part of a critical data enrichment process for getting reports out the door on time.

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Announcing the General Availability of Unity Catalog Volumes

databricks

Today, we are excited to announce that Unity Catalog Volumes is now generally available on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Unity Catalog provides a.

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Unveiling the 2024 Data Streaming Startup Challenge Finalists

Confluent

The 2024 Data Streaming Startup Challenge Finalists will compete for the grand prize on stage at Kafka Summit London.

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How DSPM Fits into Your Cloud Security Stack

Dataversity

DSPM solutions provide unique security capabilities and are specifically tailored to addressing sensitive data in the cloud, but also to supporting a holistic cloud security stack. As the variety and sophistication of attacks increase over time, new challenges arise that the existing security stack can hardly keep up with. A new, more aligned, and holistic […] The post How DSPM Fits into Your Cloud Security Stack appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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How Segment avoids user onboarding drag for its technical product

Mixpanel

Onboarding new users is one of the biggest challenges a technical product faces. This is doubly true when a portion of those would-be users don’t have technical backgrounds. If you want to boost product activation and retention, a one-and-done, low-touch onboarding flow simply won’t cut it. Both the Mixpanel team and our partners over at Segment know how crunchy user onboarding can be.

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Eyes on Data: Transforming Data Challenges into Real Progress

TDAN

In a world increasingly dominated by data, organizations are grappling with the need to effectively manage and harness this valuable asset. And with increased regulations and compliance, opportunities for innovation and AI, digital transformation initiatives, and data-driven decision-making, the demands for accurate, accessible, protected data are increasing exponentially.

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HS066: The Holy Grail: A Functioning Tech Strategy

Packet Pushers

Its rare for strategists, executives, and technologists to all get on the same page in order to create, execute, and adjust an organizations tech strategy, much less do it well. But it is possible. Johna and Greg discuss their experiences of seeing through some consultants smoke and mirrors, honestly evaluating an organizations capability to implement.

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2024’s Predominant Technology Trend? The Cloud

Dataversity

As AI becomes an integral part of business processes and strategic planning, organizations have increasingly based their data strategies around its capabilities. Businesses are generating more data than ever from sources like IoT sensors, customer transactions, social media, and more; managing and extracting value from this explosion of big data has become a key priority. […] The post 2024’s Predominant Technology Trend?

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Best 30 Remote Network Monitoring Software for IT Professionals of 2025

Obkio

Stay on top of your network's performance no matter where you are with our list of the top 30 remote network monitoring software options for IT professionals in 2023.

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Linux Troubleshooting: Mastering the Powerful Tools for Fixing and Optimizing Your System

Teimouri

The wide world of Linux systems can be intimidating and powerful at the same time. Even while it offers unmatched customization and control, one mistake might cause your painstakingly built machine to devolve into an unresponsive pit. Fear not, brave system administrator! Because the command line has a vast array of useful tools that may be used to diagnose even the most difficult problems and shine light on your system's darkest corners.

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HN722: Ivan Pepelnjak’s Netlab Eliminates the Tedious Bits of Labbing

Packet Pushers

One dark day, Ivan Pepelnjak stopped labbing. He just couldnt make himself yet again go through assigning addresses, building links, putting devices in place, setting up OSPF, BGP, VXLAN, EVPN, etc. before even being able to start whatever simulation or test he wanted to do. But from that darkness arose netlab. Ivan created netlab to. Read more » One dark day, Ivan Pepelnjak stopped labbing.

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Unveiling the Power of Dark Data in Strategic Decision-Making

Dataversity

If you’ve never heard of dark data, you’re not alone. Setting aside the ominous name, dark data isn’t something that is inherently bad – although, in practice, it usually does end up this way.

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Zoom Monitoring: Detect & Troubleshoot Zoom “Poor Network Connection” Issues

Obkio

Optimize user experience for Zoom meetings with end-to-end, proactive Zoom monitoring. Detect & troubleshoot Zoom Poor Network Connection Issues.

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Automating Privacy and Compliance

TDAN

In the digital age, the deluge of data is relentless. This burgeoning data realm, bolstered by the dawn of generative AI, demands meticulous choreography to remain coherent and valuable. As the complexity of ecosystems multiplies, so does the imperative to tether this wealth of information to the bedrock of privacy and protection.

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IPB145: Internet Reconnaissance and IPv6

Packet Pushers

Are you on the IPv6 hit list? Does your CPE device have Recommended Simple Security Capabilities? Are your ULA prefixes unique, but still manageable? Do you have a protection method structure or are you just hoping that the IPv6 space is so vast the bad guys will never find you? Tom Coffeen and Scott Hogg. Read more » Are you on the IPv6 hit list?

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Why it’s different this time

Software Architecture Zen

Image Created Using Adobe Photoshop and Firefly John Templeton, the American-born British stock investor, once said : The four most expensive words in the English language are, This time its different. Templeton was referring to people and institutions who had invested in the next ‘big thing’ believing that this time it was different, the bubble could not possibly burst and their investments were sure to be safe.

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MSSP Monitoring Use Cases: The Benefits of Network Monitoring for MSSPs

Obkio

Explore essential MSSP monitoring use cases, challenges & solutions to help MSSPs deliver top-notch security and network performance services for clients.

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Explainable AI: 5 Open-Source Tools You Should Know

TDAN

Explainable AI refers to ways of ensuring that the results and outputs of artificial intelligence (AI) can be understood by humans. It contrasts with the concept of the “black box” AI, which produces answers with no explanation or understanding of how it arrived at them.

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D2C234: What to Do About VMware

Packet Pushers

Broadcoms acquisition of VMware has generated a lot of anxiety among VMware customers. In this episode, we closely analyze the situation. First, we look at Broadcoms past acquisitions in the infrastructure sector. Then we examine the product alignment and possible new product offerings and whether the acquisition will hamper innovation and development.

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Top 5 Generative AI News You Should Know (Q1 2024)

Vedcraft

#1 – Google’s launch of Gemini & Gemini 1.5 Google launched Gemini 1.5 on Feb 15, 2024, which transcends all other models with a 128K token window with the capability to support up to 1 million tokens per context window. Gemini 1.5 use-cases: Research over a very large amount of data processing by LLM including 1 hour of video, 11 hours of audio, codebases with over 30,000 lines of code or over 700,000 words Google launched Gemini models (Ultra, Pro, and Nano) in Dec 2023.

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Best 24 VoIP Monitoring Tools of 2025

Obkio

Find the top 24 VoIP monitoring tools for 2025 from network performance monitoring solutions Call Quality Monitoring (CQM) Software, we've got you covered.

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AI Could Save Your Data Governance Program, but It’s Unlikely

TDAN

In the 1980s, there was a flurry of movies about robots coming to imprison or terrorize humanity. Forty years later, almost every business and technology publication seems to have reimagined the army of robots and artificial intelligence as trading their quest for world domination for the exciting world of business processing.

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PP002: The Tricky Biz Of Secrets Management

Packet Pushers

Today we look at secrets management and privileged access management from the perspective of a network engineer. How do you and your team securely store sensitive data including passwords, SSH keys, API keys, and private certificate keys, while still being able to work nimbly? What Privileged Access Management (PAM) practices can help put guardrails in.

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5 Key Strategies for Making Data Visualization Accessible

Dataversity

“If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.” —Albert Einstein Research has found that 65% of the general population are visual learners, meaning they need to see information as images to understand it. The business world confirms this: Visualization is essential in driving success. Take, for instance, data visualization, or, the art of translating data into […] The post 5 Key Strategies for Making Data Visualization Accessible appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Best 19 Performance Monitoring Tools: APM vs. NPM

Obkio

Supercharge your digital performance with the ultimate lineup of 19 top-tier Performance Monitoring Tools: from Application Performance Management (APM) to Network Performance Monitoring (NPM).

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HW021: The State of the Wi-Fi Industry with Claus Hetting

Packet Pushers

Wi-Fi increases the GDP of entire countries, yet its tech community still has a grassroots feel. The COVID-19 work-from-home trend grew residential Wi-Fi like never before, yet it is still competing with 5G inside homes. Guest Claus Hetting, CEO of Wi-Fi NOW, joins host Keith Parsons to talk about the paradoxes, successes, and challenges in. Read more » Wi-Fi increases the GDP of entire countries, yet its tech community still has a grassroots feel.

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Microsoft Teams Troubleshooting for Teams Performance and Connection Issues

Obkio

Learn how to use Network Monitoring tools for Microsoft Teams troubleshooting to identify and fix common teams performance and connection issues.

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How to Achieve Self-Service Data Transformation for AI and Analytics

Dataversity

Data transformation is the critical step that bridges the gap between raw data and actionable insights. It lays the foundation for strong decision-making and innovation, and helps organizations gain a competitive edge. Traditionally, data transformation was relegated to specialized engineering teams employing complex extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes using highly complex tooling and code. […] The post How to Achieve Self-Service Data Transformation for AI and Analytics appeared