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The Modern Data Lakehouse: An Architectural Innovation
The promise of a modern data lakehouse architecture Imagine having self-service access to all business data, anywhere it may be, and being able to explore it all at once. Imagine quickly answering burning business questions nearly instantly, without waiting for…
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Medical breaches accounted for 342 million leaked records from 2009 to 2022
Since 2009, medical organizations in the US have suffered nearly 5,000 data breaches, affecting over 342 million medical records. Our team of researchers analyzed data from 2009 to June 2022 to find out which US states suffer the most medical…
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Surfshark vs Tunnelbear: Which wins?
There are dozens of well-known VPN providers on the market, and picking between them can be a headache. This is particularly true if you are new to the world of VPNs. Many VPN providers make wild claims to attract subscribers….
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Application Monitoring – Best Practices
You know that you need to monitor the performance of your systems to ensure that they keep running efficiently. Applications are very important to your business’s operations so they need to be monitored. Automated monitoring reduces the costs of watching…
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Why Monitoring Your Application is Important
IT systems run themselves. Cloud-based systems don’t even need to be installed. As an IT manager, you might think that you can just set things up, give users access to them, and then move on to some other task. However,…
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What is a key derivation function (KDF) and how do they work?
Key derivation functions (KDFs) are critical parts of cryptographic systems. As their name suggests, they can be used for deriving strong keys from other inputs. These include: Passwords Shared secrets Other secure keys (when additional keys are needed) Weaker keys…
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New Practices in Data Governance and Data Fabric for Telecommunications
“There are some unique challenges introduced by the requirement to govern data across a mixture of public cloud and on-premise data resources,” according to the latest whitepaper published by the TM Forum, as “their different characteristics require an awareness at…
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Large Scale Industrialization Key to Open Source Innovation
We are now well into 2022 and the megatrends that drove the last decade in data—The Apache Software Foundation as a primary innovation vehicle for big data, the arrival of cloud computing, and the debut of cheap distributed storage—have now…
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Modern Data Architecture for Telecommunications
In the wake of the disruption caused by the world’s turbulence over the past few years, the telecommunications industry has come out reasonably unscathed. There remain challenges in workforce management, particularly in call centers, and order backlogs for fiber broadband…
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AWS Week in Review – September 5, 2022
This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! As a new week begins, let’s quickly look back at the most significant AWS news…
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