Our Top 20 Most-Read Data & Analytics Research Last Week (to May 16)
Click here for an interactive PDF to connect to the notes directly. Divya Radhakrishnan’s new note, 12 Actions to Improve Your Data Quality, re-entered the charts last week and went right into the number 1 spot! It was our most-read piece of research last week across data and analytics excluding branded research such as Magic Quadrants. “High-quality, […]
Can an older Data Center become a strategic asset rather than a liability?
Not too long ago, Gartner made a splash with the research headline, “The Data Center is Dead”. The point wasn’t that enterprise data centers were suddenly obsolete, but that the days of a traditional enterprise-owned data center serving as the sole location to source IT services were waning. With a growing reliance on externally provided […]
Book Review: How School Really Matters (and how Analytics Wins Every Argument)
How School Really Matters, Douglas B. Downey, University of Chicago Press, 2020 The sub title of this book is “Why our assumptions about school and inequality is mostly wrong”. This tells you the real focus of the book and it’s a short (159 pages with appendix and notes), concise study looking at educational attainment but […]
Centers of Acceleration
There are a lot of ideas and trends that are on a collision course with accepted best practices. When that happens, the best practice is either validated, rejected, or refined. Right now, I think they may be happening with concept of Centers of Excellence. As I read about CoEs, it sounds like goodness (when […]
A test and learn cycle is crucial for new martech capabilities
CMOs often think of martech almost as if they were buying a new car. They expect their technology to perform perfectly as soon as they have it, “fresh off the lot.” Unfortunately, your car (or martech) salesperson isn’t asking you how good of a driver you are before you sign the contract. Yet if you […]
AWS Solutions: Real-time Analytics with Spark Streaming now supports Spark SQL, Dataframes and more
AWS has updated Real-Time Analytics with Spark Streaming, an AWS Solution that automatically deploys a highly available, cost-effective batch and real-time data analytics architecture on the AWS Cloud that leverages Apache Spark Streaming and Amazon Kinesis. This solution is designed to support custom Apache Spark Streaming applications, and leverages Amazon EMR for processing vast amounts […]
Now Query for AWS Availability Zones and Local Zones using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
Customers can now programmatically access information about AWS Availability Zones and Local Zones in addition to information about AWS Regions, services, and endpoints. AWS customers can now easily access the full list of AWS Availability Zones, Local Zones and find out which services are available within the regions by querying AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. […]
AWS Storage Gateway supports FIPS 140-2 compliant endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Storage Gateway now offers Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 compliant endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to protect sensitive information for regulated workloads. These endpoints terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) sessions using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic software module, making it easier for you to use Storage Gateway for regulated workloads. US Federal […]
Covid 19 and Future of Regtech
The use of specialized tech to help financial institutions meet heightened regulatory requirements —… Source: Fintech News
AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) AWS region
You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Europe (Stockholm) AWS region. Source: AWS