Data
“We have staggering amounts of data. And we have the same problem as everyone else. It's all siloed: we need it in one place…”
Improved Apache Iceberg integrations (managed and unmanaged); support for containerised applications as a managed service inside Snowflake (hello, Kubernetes) and more...
Snowflake wants to be a natural home for your applications as well as data. But from unstructured data to Python integrations, challenges remain.
Homomorphic encryption, synthetic data, and other privacy enhancing technologies could help data leaders ensure “data protection by design and by default” says ICO
"Progress in developing open data enablers (such as data infrastructure, data culture and capabilities, collaboration) has been limited across the water sector" warns the regulator.
Apache Airflow, Atlas, Hive, Spark, Superset, and Trino all have parts to play and a GraphQL API layer is critical.
Careful now, read the small print: Account, diagnostic data will stay in the US and Zoom can't promise calls and recordings won't pass through data centres you opted out of...
The privately owned retailer's CIO talks us through building data funnels from shops, smart fitting rooms and more...
"Our ability to collect data risks overmatching the ability of our analysts to analyse and exploit it at the speed we need"