Category Archives: data lake

Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable

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Databricks, the company founded by the original developers of the Apache Spark big data analytics engine, today announced that it has open-sourced Delta Lake, a storage layer that makes it easier to ensure data integrity as new data flows into an enterprise’s data lake by bringing ACID transactions to these vast data repositories. Delta Lake, […] Continue reading Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable→

How Our Threat Analytics Multi-Region Data Lake on AWS Stores More, Slashes Costs

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Data is the lifeblood of digital businesses, and a key competitive advantage. The question is: how can you store your data cost-efficiently, access it quickly, while abiding by privacy laws? At Imperva, we wanted to store our data for long-term access…. Continue reading How Our Threat Analytics Multi-Region Data Lake on AWS Stores More, Slashes Costs→

Why Daimler moved its big data platform to the cloud

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Like virtually every big enterprise company, a few years ago, the German auto giant Daimler decided to invest in its own on-premises data centers. And while those aren’t going away anytime soon, the company today announced that it has successfully moved its on-premises big data platform to Microsoft’s Azure cloud. This new platform, which the […] Continue reading Why Daimler moved its big data platform to the cloud→

Microsoft Azure sets its sights on more analytics workloads

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Enterprises now amass huge amounts of data, both from their own tools and applications, as well as from the SaaS applications they use. For a long time, that data was basically exhaust. Maybe it was stored for a while to fulfill some legal requirements, but then it was discarded. Now, data is what drives machine […] Continue reading Microsoft Azure sets its sights on more analytics workloads→

AWS Lake Formation makes setting up data lakes easier

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The concept of data lakes has been around for a long time, but being able to set up one of these systems, which store vast amounts of raw data in its native formats, was never easy. AWS wants to change this with the launch of AWS Lake Formation. At its core, this new service, which […] Continue reading AWS Lake Formation makes setting up data lakes easier→

Clairvoyant launches Kogni to help companies track their most sensitive data

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 As we inch ever closer to GDPR in May, companies doing business in Europe need to start getting a grip on the sensitive private data they have. The trouble is that as companies move their data into data lakes, massive big data stores, it becomes … Continue reading Clairvoyant launches Kogni to help companies track their most sensitive data→