While big data is not a new concept, it’s really in the last two years that corporate America has taken note and stock of all the information. According to research, companies only analyze around 12% of the data they have, which hardly taps into the full potential of big data at all. In fact, these corporations […]
Archives for March 2019
How to secure IoT devices: 6 factors to consider
While Internet of Things devices can unlock great insights and value from the data collected, cybersecurity must be built in from the start, according to a report from the Indiana IoT Lab. The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand: By the end of 2019, more than 14 billion connected devices will be in use, […]
Simplify disaster recovery with Managed Disks for VMware and physical servers
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now supports disaster recovery of VMware virtual machines and physical servers by directly replicating to Managed Disks. Beginning in March 2019 and moving forward, all new protections have this capability available on the Azure portal. In order to enable replication for a machine, you no longer need to create storage accounts. […]
Monitoring on Azure HDInsight Part 1: An Overview
Azure HDInsight offers several ways to monitor your Hadoop, Spark, or Kafka clusters. Monitoring on HDInsight can be broken down into three main categories: Cluster health and availability Resource utilization and performance Job status and logs Two main monitoring tools are offered on Azure HDInsight, Apache Ambari, which is included with all HDInsight clusters, and […]
Spinning up cloud-scale analytics is even more compelling with Talend and Microsoft
Special thanks to Lee Schlesinger and the Talend team for their contribution to this blog post. Following the significant announcement around the continued price-performance leadership of Azure Data Warehouse in February 2019, Talend announced support of Stitch Data Loader for Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Stich Data Loader is Talend’s recent addition to its offering portfolio […]
Azure Databricks – VNet injection, DevOps Version Control and Delta availability
Azure Databricks provides a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache® Spark™-based analytics platform to accelerate and simplify the process of building big data and AI solutions that drive the business forward, all backed by industry-leading SLAs. With Azure Databricks, you can set up your Spark environment in minutes and autoscale quickly and easily. You can also […]
MWC 2019 – LoRa Alliance: interview with CEO, Donna Moore
At Mobile World Congress 2019, we had the opportunity to interview Donna Moore, CEO & Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance accompanied by Marc Pegulu, VP IoT Product Marketing & Strategy at Semtech, to discuss the latest developments of the Alliance and the LoRa technology. Interview conducted by Manuel Nau, Managing and Editorial Director at IoT […]
How the Internet of Things improves financial investments
Can smart technology lead to smart investing? There is ample evidence that this is the case, says Marc Weisberg, managing principal for Soho Investment Partners, given the prominence and proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) over the past few years. While there were 15 billion connected devices in 2015, one estimate is that there could be as […]
The Business And Technological Benefits Of Data Lakes
Big data and Data Lakes have been technological buzzwords for the past 7-8 years. And enough and more evidence suggest that its adoption has been an enormous success. These days, businesses use data to define their internal business objectives and metrics. Plus, it takes care of the externals as well in terms of the relationship […]
Is An Artificial Intelligence Bubble Threatening Software Development?
While I was in undergraduate student studying engineering, I had to take a class on literature and communications of science and technology. This class delved into a number of trends impacting the realm of technology. One of them that came up on multiple class discussions was the rapid changes wrought by advances in artificial intelligence. […]