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Author: dgalli

  • Conference Whispers: CES 2020

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    CES 2020 allowed over 175,000 attendees from 160 countries to see more than 4,400 exhibitors and 250 conference sessions, with 11 official venues totaling over 2.9 million net square feet of exhibits. Attendees described the event as “huge,” although many first-timers used the word “overwhelming.” There were advances and capability announcements across the 36 product categories and 22 marketplaces, including Internet of Things, now more appropriately called Intelligence of Things. CES 2020 brought current technology advances in 5G, quantum computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality together to welcome the new decade of technology and the 4th industrial revolution.

  • Whisper Report: Five Differences with Sensor Data

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    Many IT departments are beginning to work with sensor data – but sensor data is different from transaction data. Sensor data may arise out of IoT applications or operations engineering integrations with IT. The consequences of application failure with sensor data may result in the loss of millions of dollars, explosions, or death. Sensor data is not accurate, and all values must be cross-checked before critical action is taken. Sensor data is voluminous and is often stored in time-series databases. It is important not to confuse tag databases with metadata tags. Finally, sensor data often lacks all context which must be added.

  • Whisper Report: Six Use Cases Enabled by Data Virtualization Platforms

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    When selecting technologies for your data architecture, it is important to understand common use cases enabled by the technology. This research examines six use cases enabled by data virtualization and the architecture capabilities used to support the use case. To this end, we examine the customer/enterprise 360 view of data that is also met by the logical data warehouse (LDW) architecture use case. We also evaluate the use cases of the large, hybrid multi-cloud environments, data lake acceleration, collaboration with external master data management (MDM) and data catalog solutions, managing Excel as well as application integration.

  • Whisper Report: Six Capabilities Provided by Data Validation Platforms

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    Digital transformation requires data-driven decisions; data-driven decisions require data validation. This research covers the variety of capabilities found in data validation platforms. From testing structured, unstructured and big data, to testing data sources such as BI tools and ERP systems or even nonstandard files, the validation platform must match your environment. Regression testing and even the capability to monitor critical business data points can also found in data validation platforms.

  • Conference Whispers: Tableau Conference 2019

    Playlist for Conference Whispers: Tableau Conference 2019

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    Summary: Tableau Conference 2019 allowed 18,000+ attendees to see over 650 presentations. Attendees described the event as fun, although more than a few were disappointed. There were major advances and capability announcements across the platform, including data management and augmented analytics. Some capabilities, such as write to database, require enterprises to take additional independent steps to avoid orphaned data copies and the related governance issues. The conference was notably inclusive, featuring closed captioning, signing and the story of the historical achievements by the group known as the Code Girls.

  • Conference Whispers: World Crypto Con Las Vegas 2019

    Playlist for Conference Whispers: World Crypto Con Las Vegas 2019

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    World Crypto Con 2019 (WCC) was part of Vegas Blockchain Week, which also included CoinAgenda, WCC Mine and World Crypto Poker Tournament (WCPT0). WCC had 2,000 attendees and 137 speakers on panels in four major streams. The four streams at WCC included a Main Conference, Blockchain Developer Conference, Mining Conference and educational workshops. The conference had 85 sponsors and 40,000 net square feet of exhibits.

  • Conference Whispers: Teradata Universe 2019

    Conference Whispers: Teradata Universe 2019

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    Teradata Universe 2019 allowed 2,000+ attendees to see over 250 customer sessions and workshops highlighting Teradata’s technology in real-world, and often highly complicated, environments. Attendees felt their goal of seeing what worked for others was met by the conference. Major announcements by Teradata included their Cloud Forward/Cloud First initiatives and the introduction of Teradata Vantage to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Teradata Vantage, which can leverage object store in Azure and AWS, is available “as a service,” and can be purchased on a consumption basis. Teradata officially entered the analytics market with the announcement of Vantage Analysts and Teradata Customer Experience. Teradata’s Hadoop Migration Program announcement was well received by those with large installations.

  • Whisper Report: Decision Integrity Requires Data Validation

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    Digitally transformed organizations expect reliable, data-driven decisions, but data-driven decisions require reliable data if the business is to maintain decision integrity. Don’t stop short with only providing data quality that is responsible for standardizing data. All data integrations must be verified and transformations must be validated to ensure decision integrity. Historical methods of “stare and compare” or leveraging SQL scripts are not efficient, nor do they meet governance requirements. Some modern data validation tools can validate even the largest data sets.

  • Whisper Report: Cloud Advantages Found on-Premise and at the Edge

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    Clouds are known for the ability to be purchased via operational expenses (OpEx) versus capital expenses (CapEx). In addition, clouds provide software, infrastructure and even the platform itself ‘as-a-service,’ enabling auto-scaling, auto-update capabilities and ease of administration. This research examines vendor products that bring cloud-like features to the edge and on-premise. This includes capabilities that enable a seamless edge/cloud hybrid experience.

  • Conference Whispers: PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019

    Conference Whispers: PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019 Video Playlist TBW1010

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    PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019 allowed 30,000+ attendees to see over 2,000 machine providers over 900,000 net square feet of exhibits. There were vendors ready for Industry 4.0 that could collect any and all of the data you would like – and those that weren’t. Some data requires a separate license, some is stored in historians, and some is stored in the cloud. There were machines that are reconfigurable and those that can teach themselves. There was even a robot with a neural network embedded on a chip that only needs to see examples to learn.