Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President at Gartner perfectly summed up the currency of the times we live in: “Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” The world is data-driven and if a few years ago McKinsey were talking about the way Big Data could sustain the growth of […]
Unbelievable Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Education
Due to technological progress, artificial intelligence is influencing education. How can it help both teachers and students? Even today, many countries not only educate kids about artificial intelligence (AI), but also apply it to improve the quality of education. Providing data training is becoming more essential. Young people need to be computer literate to develop […]
Big Data and IoT Transform the Next Generation of Gadgets
The implications of the big data revolution are typically associated with fields such as insurance, finance, and security. As essential as they might be for our future, they are not always understood by the average consumer. But you don’t need to look for a loan or an insurance plan to witness the massive impact that […]
Data Storage On The Back Burner As Big Data Takes Over
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 […]
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 […]