Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Hosting Your Own Website and Network Businesses that want to enjoy full control over their IT infrastructure opt for setting up everything in-house. The main benefit of hosting your own website and managing your own network can provide immense control and flexibility over your digital content and infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2023

Cloud infrastructure is especially sensitive, as many critical applications are at risk, such as customer-facing applications. Good Dog Communications in Partnership with Verizon and Edgio recently hosted a webinar, “The Rise of Cloud Exploitation, ” that spoke directly to cyberthreats targeting web apps and security best practices.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Migrating a mission-critical system like authoritative DNS is always going to involve some amount of risk. Unfortunately, many network admins use this risk potential as a reason to continue using an authoritative DNS service that no longer adds business value.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The other half of the equation requires your team’s emphasis to shift to sustained excellence in managing and optimizing your data ecosystem — better known as Day 2 operations. At Cloudera, our commitment to excellence extends beyond your deployment on Day 0 and Day 1, and into the critical phase of system maintenance and optimization.

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

By Robert Thanaraj , Ehtisham Zaidi , and 2 more. Gartner suggests in the article that successful Data Engineering teams have two crucial challenges. How to optimize Data Team Productivity – essentially that teams should avoid adding more bodies whenever they have more work that needs to be done. And that code creates complexity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Minimize lock-in risks You need to carefully weigh the tradeoffs when it comes to leveraging each vendor’s cloud-native services. “If Financial services company USAA carefully chose which of its four cloud service providers host each of its workloads and regular business applications. “We

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 13, 2024

With optimized configuration, it aims for high recall for the queries. Ray cluster for ingestion and creating vector embeddings In our testing, we found that the GPUs make the biggest impact to performance when creating the embeddings. OpenSearch Service supports ANN as well as exact k-NN search. zst`; do zstd -d $F; done rm *.zst

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In this post, we show how smava optimized their data platform by using Amazon Redshift Serverless and Amazon Redshift data sharing to overcome right-sizing challenges for unpredictable workloads and further improve price-performance. The following diagram shows the high-level data platform architecture before the optimizations.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

According to Andreessen Horowitz (link resides outside IBM.com ) , in 2023, the average spend on foundation model application programming interfaces (APIs), self-hosting and fine-tuning models across surveyed companies reached USD 7 million. AGI wouldn’t just perceive its surroundings; it would understand them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2024

We did side-by-side testing,” he says. In testing, gen AI was also particularly good at generating test cases and creating dummy data for testing. We got 600 people together to test gen AI in a sandbox to try different use cases in 54 different categories.” It’s not about reducing headcount, he adds.

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Cloudera

JULY 24, 2023

However, both of these options are associated with substantial cost and risk , as organizations underestimate the complexity and the necessary expertise required to not only build but also operate a platform for advanced analytics. This allows us to identify security issues or vulnerabilities and to perform remediation with minimal delay.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. There are other risks, too. The result was a cost-neutral cloud hosting solution that delivered other benefits such as a better user experience, rapid and transparent updates, and variable cloud usage patterns.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Code generation: Code generation helps IT leaders overcome challenges related to developer bandwidth and optimizing the skills of a limited talent pool. Look for relatively discrete and low-risk opportunities to explore proof-of-concept implementations. Start small, test and scale.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 9, 2023

Additionally, VPC allows seamless integration with other IBM Cloud services, creating a unified ecosystem to host various applications and workloads. This combination enables businesses to run mission-critical applications and data-intensive workloads with optimal performance, high availability and robust security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

Unfortunately, many organizations find themselves susceptible to the tactics used by consultants to manage their risk and optimize a commercial arrangement to their benefit. For example, the consultant will seek to test the strength of their relationship with executive leadership against the strength of the program leadership team.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

” Software as a service (SaaS) is a software licensing and delivery paradigm in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is hosted centrally. It gives the customer entire shopping cart software and hosting infrastructure, allowing enterprises to launch an online shop in a snap. Everything you need is in one place.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The most common insurance use cases include optimizing processes that require processing large documents and large blocks of text or images. Currently, using this data for modeling risk involves manually-intensive efforts, and AI capabilities are underutilized.

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datapine

MARCH 8, 2021

Your Chance: Want to test a healthcare reporting software for free? Healthcare reports, or healthcare reporting, are a data-driven means of benchmarking the performance of specific processes or functions within a healthcare institution, with the primary aim of increasing efficiency, reducing errors, and optimizing healthcare metrics.

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CDW Research Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

Maximize holiday results, reduce risk and lower everyone’s stress levels by involving your technical team and other key business stakeholders and partners within your overall digital ecosystem early on in your holiday planning. What about external penetration testing for potential threats and vulnerabilities?

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 26, 2023

Cloud computing offers the potential to redefine and personalize customer relationships, transform and optimize operations, improve governance and transparency, and expand business agility and capability. Cloud is transforming the way life sciences organizations are doing business.

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CDW Research Hub

AUGUST 19, 2019

This will help you maximize holiday results, reduce risk, and lower everyone’s stress levels. This requires coordination across multiple teams to get all of these applied and tested within the various environments, so don’t leave it to the last minute. What about external pen testing for potential threats and vulnerabilities?

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 17, 2018

There are two sets of constraints that make crawl an interesting problem: Each host (a collection of web pages sharing a common URL prefix) imposes an implicit or explicit limit on the rate of crawls Google’s web crawler can request. Effectively, this imposes an overall limit on the rate of crawls across all web pages.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Too often IT initiatives are undertaken solely as technical projects, with only loose affiliation with line-of-business stakeholders, ushering in the risk of drifting too far from the overall goals and business objectives of the organization. Hosting the entire infrastructure on-premise will turn out to be exorbitant,” he says.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 1, 2019

This eliminates the financial cost and risk of pre-ordering stock or shouldering many of the other upfront costs of running a business. You need to be diligent about testing. Big data has made it easier to track the performance of affiliate marketing campaigns , so you can optimize them accordingly.

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datapine

APRIL 14, 2022

In 2017 the company wanted to take its shopping experience one step further by creating an augmented reality app that allowed users to test a product without having to leave their homes. In 2013, they took a slight risk and introduced a veggie smoothie to their previously fruit-only smoothie menu. 3) Self-serve Beer And Big Data.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

SafeGraph found itself with a less-than-optimal Spark environment with their incumbent Spark vendor. The following figure highlights the engineering workflow when working with Spark, and the Spark platform should support and optimize each action in the workflow. Their costs were climbing.

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Laminar Security

DECEMBER 11, 2023

DDR detects anomalous or suspicious data behavior that may indicate insider threats or other data security risks. SIEM can also lack the context and intelligence to identify insider threats or other data security risks. What are the risks and challenges that you face in protecting the data?

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

Some examples of data science use cases include: An international bank uses ML-powered credit risk models to deliver faster loans over a mobile app. An AI-based medical assessment platform analyzes medical records to determine a patient’s risk of stroke and predict treatment plan success rates.

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CDW Research Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Cutco enables their sales teams to perform direct sales using applications hosted in Cutco’s traditional data centers. Software is deployed manually with limited testing using the Rolling Deployment strategy. Certificate Manager for HTTPS certificates bound to API Gateway Edge-optimized CloudFront endpoints. The Solution.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 22, 2020

One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown. For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics.

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Domino Data Lab

MAY 8, 2019

At CMU I joined a panel hosted by Zachary Lipton where someone in the audience asked a question about machine learning model interpretation. That’s a risk in case, say, legislators – who don’t understand the nuances of machine learning – attempt to define a single meaning of the word interpret. Let’s look through some antidotes.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Data processes that depended upon the previously defective data will likely need to be re-initiated, especially if their functioning was at risk or compromised by the defected data. Also known as data validation, integrity refers to the structural testing of data to ensure that the data complies with procedures.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In this post, we demonstrate building a serverless RAG workflow by combining the vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless with an LLM like Anthropic Claude hosted by Amazon Bedrock. Test the solution The solution provides some sample data for indexing, as shown in the following screenshot. You can also index custom text.

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O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 25, 2021

Both SRE and DevOps emphasize similar practices: version control (62% growth for GitHub, and 48% for Git), testing (high usage, though no year-over-year growth), continuous deployment (down 20%), monitoring (up 9%), and observability (up 128%). Observability” risks becoming the new name for monitoring. And that’s unfortunate.

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Sisense

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Smart use of your data can be the key to optimizing processes, identifying new opportunities, and gaining or keeping a competitive edge. It’s generated by a host of sources in different ways. The result, as Sisense CEO Amir Orad wrote , is that every company is now a data company. But are you paying attention to all of your data?

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bridgei2i

JUNE 11, 2020

Froelich, a Republican congressman and amplified by Johnny Carson, host of the late-night TV talk, The Tonight Show. Shift toward digital commerce: In-store and outdoor vending has given way to e-commerce, as customers attempt to minimize risk of exposure to the virus. can help optimize spends across digital channels.

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Domino Data Lab

JULY 2, 2019

SQL optimization provides helpful analogies, given how SQL queries get translated into query graphs internally , then the real smarts of a SQL engine work over that graph. The query graph provides metadata that gets leveraged for optimizations at multiple layers of the relational database stack. SQL and Spark. That’s good stuff.

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