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Uniting the Machine Learning and Data Streaming Ecosystems - Part 1

Confluent

The future of data is real time and enriched by machine learning. How can we overcome socio-technical blockers and unite the ML and data streaming markets?

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Run SQL Queries on Databricks From Visual Studio Code

databricks

Today, we are excited to announce that users can now run SQL queries on Databricks from within Visual Studio Code via a preview.

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Diving Deep into Submarine Cables: The Undersea Lifelines of Internet Connectivity

Kentik

Worldwide telecommunications began somewhere around 150 years ago, in 1850, with the first commercial international submarine cable between England and France. A few years later, by 1858, the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable connected London with North America when 143 words were transmitted in about 10 hours. Today, the United States’ financial and military command systems rely on global submarine cables.

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Save Money with Storage-as-a-Service During Uncertain Economic Times

Dataversity

Amid the economic uncertainty that has gripped 2023, IT leaders are scrambling to find ways to reduce costs. Enterprise storage is one of those areas that the IT team can look at for substantial cost savings without sacrificing availability, reliability, cyber resilience, or application performance. Taking a more strategic approach to your enterprise storage infrastructure will […] The post Save Money with Storage-as-a-Service During Uncertain Economic Times appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Confluent Achieves Google Cloud Ready - AlloyDB Designation

Confluent

Confluent announced that it has successfully achieved Google Cloud Ready - AlloyDB Designation for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Google Cloud’s newest fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service for the most demanding enterprise database workloads.

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The Executive’s Guide to Data, Analytics and AI Transformation, Part 1: A blueprint for modernization

databricks

Now more than ever, organizations need to adapt quickly to market opportunities and emerging risks so that they are better positioned to adapt.

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Reinforcing Networks: Advancing Resiliency and Redundancy Techniques

Kentik

The truth is, designing a network that can withstand the test of time, traffic, and potential disasters is a challenging feat. That’s where network resiliency and redundancy come into play, helping network planners construct robust and efficient networks. But do we always need 100% redundancy to achieve resilience? Let’s find out. Resiliency and redundancy in networking First things first, let’s define resiliency and redundancy in the context of networking.

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Article: Culture & Methods Trends Report March 2023

InfoQ Articles

The two biggest factors influencing organisational culture in early 2023 are the highly publicised and hugely disruptive layoffs across the tech industry and the emergence of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT.

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Security best practices for the Databricks Lakehouse Platform

databricks

Your data security is our priority At Databricks, we know that data is one of your most valuable assets and always has to.

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Data Contracts, More Than Just APIs?

Confluent

Why do data teams need data contracts whereas APIs suffice for everyone else? The most important is to get your data systems, as well as your software and data teams aligned.

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Why we’re standardizing our terms and conditions

Mixpanel

Early this year, we embarked on a mission to remove friction in the B2B SaaS customer buying experience by making all of our plans available online and our pricing transparent. You can now purchase Mixpanel in the same add-to-cart way as almost anything else you shop for online. Today, we’re going one step further and addressing another pain point for customers: the tedious process of negotiating legal terms and conditions, or terms of use.

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Article: 12 Places to Intervene - Rethink FinOps Using a Systems Thinking Lens

InfoQ Articles

A recent study on FinOps by McKinsey reveals that 69% of organizations prioritize tactical initiatives over higher-impact strategic initiatives. One reason could be that most of those organizations are unaware of those strategic initiatives or unaware of their importance of them. In this article, I will analyze via a System Thinking lens how to prioritize the efforts to address those problems.

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Cost Effective and Secure Data Sharing: The Advantages of Leveraging Data Partitions for Sharing Large Datasets

databricks

In today's business landscape, secure and cost-effective data sharing is more critical than ever for organizations looking to optimize their internal and external.

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Meeting Data Wellness Needs in the Healthcare Industry

Confluent

Trusted healthcare puts Confluent at the heart of their organization to access data in real time to enable discovery of new insights and meet the needs of patients

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Heavy Networking 672: Overcoming Your Imposter Syndrome

Packet Pushers

Lots of folks suffer from impostor syndrome. Tech is complex--how could you know what youre doing? And yet, many of us are responsible for incredibly complex IT systems. Fake it til you make it, right? To handle the cognitive dissonance of impostor syndrome, we overcompensate. In doing so, we pay a personal price. Today's Heavy Networking guest is Matt Vitale.

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Article: Accelerating the Secure Software Delivery Lifecycle with GitOps

InfoQ Articles

Building secure software can be complicated and time-consuming. By employing a GitOps model, security can be safely separated from development simplifying the delivery process and increasing velocity.

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Security Operations on the Data Lakehouse: Hunters SOC Platform is now available for Databricks customers

databricks

Cybersecurity is a big data problem: The growing volume and complexity of data flowing in and out of enterprises have created new cybersecurity.

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What is Acceptable Packet Loss? 10% Packet Loss = 100x Slower

Obkio

Learn what is acceptable packet loss, how it can impact your network & how to resolve it. Spoiler alert: 10% packet loss can make your internet 100x slower!

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How Cloud Makes Disaster Recovery Solutions More Affordable

Akins IT

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way organizations approach disaster recovery (DR). This is driving rapid growth in the global disaster recovery solution market. In 2021 this market was valued at $8.01 billion and is projected to reach $115.36 billion by 2030 at a CAGR of 34.5% from 2022 to 2030. By leveraging cloud-based DR solutions, organizations can enjoy several advantages that make DR more affordable, including: Pay-per-use Model: Cloud-based DR solutions typically use a pay-per-us

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The Evolution of Qakbot: How Cato Networks Adapts to the Latest Threats 

CATO Networks

The world of cybersecurity is a never-ending battle, with malicious actors constantly devising new ways to exploit vulnerabilities and infiltrate networks. One such threat, causing headaches for security teams for over a decade, is the Qakbot Trojan, also known as Qbot. Qakbot has been used in malicious campaigns since 2007, and despite many attempts to stamp it out, continues to evolve and adapt in an attempt to evade detection.

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Building the Trusted Research Environment with Azure Databricks

databricks

The importance and impact of data in healthcare is greater than it has ever been, with access to truly large-scale datasets and powerful.

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Smooth Sailing: Ensuring Reliable Connectivity with Azure ExpressRoute Monitoring

Obkio

Learn how to monitor network performance of Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute between your on-premise infrastructure, up to the Microsoft cloud.

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Key Considerations for Selecting a Disaster Recovery Solution

Akins IT

Disaster recovery (DR) should be an essential component of your organization's risk management strategy. When selecting a DR solution, there are several key considerations that you should take into account to ensure youve selected the right one for their specific needs. Here are some of the key considerations: Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs): The RTO and RPO are critical metrics for measuring the effectiveness of any DR solution.

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The Case for GDPR by a Friendly Hacker

Dataversity

I like to hack into Microsoft products in my free time – and that’s given me a pretty unique perspective on how we need to protect data in our digital world. Before anyone calls the authorities, I promise that it’s all kosher. In fact, Microsoft rewards people for discovering their vulnerabilities. Whitehat hacking and bug […] The post The Case for GDPR by a Friendly Hacker appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Day Two Cloud 188: Out-Of-Band Management And Infrastructure Automation With ZPE Systems (Sponsored)

Packet Pushers

On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk through out-of-band management network design with sponsor ZPE Systems. If your idea of OOB management is a jump box and some terminal servers, theres a lot more to the story when you bring automation tooling into the picture. We'll learn how ZPE gear works and talk with customer Vapor IO about using ZPE gear in its edge compute sites.

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What Makes Working for Confluent Special? Great Technology, Great Team, and Growth Always

Confluent

Evi Schneider focuses on European campaign management. She tells us how her professional development at data streaming pioneer Confluent will continue.

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We’re updating our terms and conditions to save our customers time, give peace of mind

Mixpanel

At Mixpanel, we’ve made progress on our mission to streamline the purchasing process for customers by posting our pricing publicly and making it easier to purchase any plan (up to 1B events monthly) online. While those efforts have clearly created efficiencies on the front end of the purchasing process, we recognized that to truly reduce friction, we had to address the step that’s notorious for taking customers and their lawyers sometimes weeks or months to process: contracting.

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Don’t Be Held Hostage by Legacy Data Backup

Dataversity

Today is World Backup Day, our annual reminder of the importance of being diligent about backing up data to prevent data loss. But the fact is, the rate at which data levels are exploding in size is far outpacing what legacy data backup systems can achieve. The way we have done backup for the past 20 […] The post Don’t Be Held Hostage by Legacy Data Backup appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Network Break 423: Arista Woos Large Enterprises With New SD-WAN Router; Google Breaks Glass Enterprise

Packet Pushers

This week's Network Break covers Arista's new WAN routers that get the company into the SD-WAN market, debates whether Aryaka targeting SMEs is a sign of problems or opportunity, and discusses an update on the size of the SASE market. We also look at an HPE acquisition, the use of exploding USBs to target journalists, space networking, and more. This week's Network Break covers Arista's new WAN routers that get the company into the SD-WAN market, debates whether Aryaka targeting SMEs is a sign o

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Meeting the Culture of Now with Data in Motion

Confluent

Preview of Confluent’s Washington, DC Data in Motion event. This event, largely focused on how data in motion can aid in meeting government modernization goals, and will feature a number of government technology leaders sharing successes and challenges.

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How to establish a product analytics practice

Mixpanel

Product analytics promises us something incredible: With more behavioral data about your users, you can make more informed product decisions. But what if you feel like you’re drowning in data? If you have a mature, well-established product, it’s even harder to mine through millions of end users and billions of data points. Or what if you have no data but need to generate insights quickly?

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Optimizing Data Quality to Navigate Economic Turbulence 

Dataversity

Sustained economic volatility and a global recession have forced enterprise leaders to make difficult decisions. Some are reducing headcount and scaling down operational overhead to become more agile, while others have implemented cost-saving measures, such as cutting tech spend, to improve financial flexibility. These initiatives may provide companies with short-term reprieve during times of disruption, […] The post Optimizing Data Quality to Navigate Economic Turbulence appeared first o

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Tech Bytes: Choosing Single-Vendor SASE For Networking And Security (Sponsored)

Packet Pushers

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we get into Secure Access Services Edge (SASE), which combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security services. You can integrate parts from different vendors, but Palo Alto Networks is here to make a case for why you might want to consider a single-vendor approach. Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, we get into Secure Access Services Edge (SASE), which combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security ser

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Best Practices in Data Pipeline Test Automation

Dataversity

Data integration processes benefit from automated testing just like any other software. Yet finding a data pipeline project with a suitable set of automated tests is rare. Even when a project has many tests, they are often unstructured, do not communicate their purpose, and are hard to run. A characteristic of data pipeline development is the frequent […] The post Best Practices in Data Pipeline Test Automation appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Takeaways for Businesses in the Rapidly Evolving Data Security and Privacy Landscape

Dataversity

As more and more businesses jump into the digital transformation bandwagon by leveraging cutting-edge tools and technologies, data security and privacy challenges have also increased. Even though customer privacy and security may seem interchangeable to most of us, both are distinctly separate yet interrelated concepts. And knowing the exact difference between the two is undoubtedly the need […] The post Takeaways for Businesses in the Rapidly Evolving Data Security and Privacy Landscape a