Sat.Sep 29, 2018 - Fri.Oct 05, 2018

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The Market of Data at Strata

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

In 2017 Strata + Hadoop World was changed to the Strata Data Conference. As I pointed out in my coverage of last year’s event , the focus was largely on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). That theme continued this year, but my impression of the event was of a community looking to get value out of data regardless of the technology being used to manage that data.

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Unveiling the all-new IBM Cognos Analytics, fueled by AI

IBM Big Data Hub

Many people agree that artificial intelligence (AI) is the key to the future of business. However, unlocking the full potential of AI has proven elusive for many companies, especially at the enterprise level.

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Is It Time to Jump-Start Your Data Offense?

Juice Analytics

Legendary Alabama coach Bear Bryant believed in defense: “Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.” Legendary boxer Jack Dempsey saw virtue in offense: "The best defense is a good offense.” Legendary analytics guru Thomas Davenport takes a more neutral stance in his Harvard Business Review article What’s your Data Strategy? "The key is to balance offense and defense.

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Industry Pulse September 2018 Highlights

DataRobot Blog

by Jen Underwood. Long time, no news summaries…what happened? I’ll share the scoop on that soon. In the meantime, Cloudera and Hortonworks announced a merger that was really “big” news yesterday. That merger. Read More.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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And the 2018 EMEA Partner Summit Award Winners are…

Cloudera

What an evening! Last week Cloudera hosted over 150 attendees at our annual EMEA Partner Summit in Amsterdam with attendees from over 21 countries across the region. Representatives from across the Cloudera ecosystem came together to hear from company executives and EMEA leadership as well as interactive sessions on Machine Learning, AI and Data Analytics, Cloud and Platform as well training and certification opportunities.

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The past, present and future of data warehouse appliances

IBM Big Data Hub

The IBM Integrated Analytics System (IIAS), is a unique, cloud-ready appliance and machine learning platform wields the power of an in-memory, massively parallel processing database engine with embedded Spark. It also runs on market-leading IBM Big Data Servers and IBM FlashSystem 900 storage arrays enabling a high-performance system optimized for business insight as well as advanced operational and in-database analytics.

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Ad hoc analysis: business intelligence's fast food problem

3AG Systems

The ad hoc promise In a world where businesses live or die on data, self-serve BI is the information super-food we’ve been waiting for. Or so the rhetoric around this popular tool would have us believe. Also known as data exploration, exploratory data analysis, data discovery and ad hoc reporting, self-serve BI has many names, but one big promise: to radically reduce the time organizations spend on data collection, analysis, and reporting.

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Nutanix AOS 5.9 is Here!

Nutanix

The Nutanix AOS 5.8 release back in July 2018 unleashed many new security enhancements with a focus on encryption and identity management. We are excited to let you know that AOS 5.9 is here and available for you to download from the portal.

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Win with AI: How to move up the maturity curve

IBM Big Data Hub

Rob Thomas, general manager of IBM Analytics, sat down with Dave Vellante in New York City on the eve of the 13 September taping of the Win with AI digital broadcast to talk about the evolution of big data and how clients can take the next leap forward into self-service analytics before using AI to grow their business.

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Cloudera + Hortonworks, from the Edge to AI

Cloudera

We’ve just announced that Cloudera and Hortonworks have agreed to merge to form a single company. I want to explain the thinking behind the deal and the combination. Rob Bearden from Hortonworks has written up a post sharing his thoughts, as well. First, remember the history of Apache Hadoop. Google built an innovative scale-out platform for data storage and analysis in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and published research papers about their work.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Augmented Analytics Benefits are Numerous!

Smarten

Is Augmented Analytics Easy Enough for the Average Business User? Augmented Analytics benefits a business, its users and its customers, partners and stakeholders. The advantages of augmented analytics are as numerous, varied and unique as the organization itself but, no matter the industry or type of business, one of the greatest benefits of augmented analytics is the availability and access to sophisticated analytical techniques, algorithms and processes for the average business user – WI

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Intern Life at Nutanix

Nutanix

When I first started the daunting task of finding a summer internship, I was nervous about making the wrong decision and spending my summer making photocopies or going on coffee runs.

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Learn how to switch on AI at our virtual conference

IBM Big Data Hub

IBM is launching a live, virtual conference around AI. Community Day: Artificial Intelligence on October 11 from 10 AM to 4 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). It’s a one-day exploration of applied AI, the tools that can help you harness it, and coding tutorials.

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Win with AI: Niagara Bottling taps IBM Data Science Elite Team

IBM Big Data Hub

Sreesha Rao, senior manager of IT applications at Niagara Bottling and Seth Dobrin, CDO of IBM Analytics, spoke with Dave Vellante in NYC on the eve of the 13 September taping of the Win with AI digital broadcast about the company’s efforts to save on plastic use by optimizing the settings of its pallet wrappers, machines that wrap an entire pallet stacked with cases of bottles in multiple revolutions of stretch plastic.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating