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Apache Ozone Fault Injection Framework
One of the key challenges of building an enterprise-class robust scalable storage system is to validate the system under duress and failing system components. This includes, but is not limited to: failed networks, failed or failing disks, arbitrary delays in…
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AWS Step Functions adds updates to ‘choice’ state, global access to context object, dynamic timeouts, result selection, and intrinsic functions to Amazon States Language
Developers can use AWS Step Functions to design and execute workflows that connect services such as AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, and Amazon SageMaker into a rich application. A workflow consists of a series of steps, with the output of one…
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Amazon Braket – Go Hands-On with Quantum Computing
Last year I told you about Amazon Braket and explained the basics of quantum computing, starting from qubits and progressing to quantum circuits. During the preview, AWS customers such as Enel, Fidelity (Exploring Quantum Computing with Amazon Web Services), and…
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Amazon ECS Now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
As machine learning and deep learning models become more sophisticated, hardware acceleration is increasingly required to deliver fast predictions at high throughput. Today, we’re very happy to announce that AWS customers can now use the Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances on…
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Data Security and Governance – not the lockdown businesses expect it to be
The current economic climate has meant a sudden and seismic step-change in how many of our customers operate. The recent shift to remote working has seen an increase in conversations around how data is managed, with many businesses needing to…
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New – High-Performance HDD Storage for Amazon FSx for Lustre File Systems
Many workloads, such as genome analysis, training of machine learning models, High Performance Computing (HPC), and analytics applications depend on multiple compute instances accessing the same set of data. For these workloads, clusters of compute instances are commonly connected to…
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Factory Edge to Cloud Analytics- Three Fundamental Steps to Success
We recently Googled the manufacturing use case “predictive maintenance” and was astonished by the results there were 82 MILLION results returned. Next, we Googled “process optimization” and it yielded even more results – 302 MILLION. Clearly, these use cases…
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Cloudera Data Warehouse on Azure Provides Fast, Cost-Effective and Highly Scalable Analytics
The Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) service is a managed data warehouse that runs Cloudera’s powerful engines on a containerized architecture. It is part of the new Cloudera Data Platform, or CDP, which went live on Microsoft Azure earlier this year….
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AWS Glue version 2.0 featuring 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing duration
AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. Glue is “serverless” – you don’t need to provision or manage any resources and…
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Question Answering: Enhancing Search with Deep Learning and NLP
Recently, Cloudera Fast Forward held a webinar on automated question answering. What is automated question answering, you ask? In its simplest form, it’s a human-machine interaction to extract information from data using human language. This is a pretty broad definition…
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