Spot instances are transforming how people consume public cloud services. Spot instances are short-lived instances offered by cloud providers for a very low cost compared to on-demand or reserved instances. Cloud providers use spot market as a way to monetize their excess capacity. The price of spot instances vary with the supply and demand but, …
Today’s enterprises face a complex threat environment. Attacks targeting users, networks, sensitive information and communications are increasing in sophistication and scale. Organizations of all sizes need advanced security capabilities that are easy to deploy and manage to help defend against these threats. With Google Cloud constantly looking to bring innovative capabilities to users of their …
Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine that reduces the time between data acquisition and business insights delivery. Technical professionals can create batch and streaming pipelines, data transformation, machine learning and analytical reporting using common APIs. Key Findings Apache Spark can accelerate ingestion of semistructured, unstructured and structured data from multiple sources, enabling real-time …
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Blockchain, quantum computing, augmented analytics and artificial intelligence will drive disruption and new business models. Although science fiction may depict AI robots as the bad guys, some tech giants now employ them for security. Companies like Microsoft and Uber use Knightscope K5 robots to patrol parking lots and large outdoor areas to predict and prevent …
Organizations that lack a high-level cloud strategy risk wasted investment and failure Cloud computing is becoming a mainstream part of the IT world, with far-reaching impacts for many businesses. It’s crucial, therefore, that IT leaders and enterprise architects prepare an overarching cloud strategy for their organizations. “Where benefits are high and risks low, a public …
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What do you think of when you think of “big data”? For many, it’s a nebulous term that invokes images of huge server farms humming away. Or perhaps you think of receiving some kind of personalized advertisement from a retailer. But big data is so much deeper and broader than that. I believe there are …
There are a lot of benefits that come with having Amazon Web Services (AWS) as your cloud platform, alone or as part of a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. The agility and flexibility of AWS’s platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) make it possible for your organization’s network to be responsive, …
