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June 08, 2021 08 Jun'21
Snowflake expands cloud data warehouse platform to Snowpark

Snowflake customer Instacart, the online grocery giant, uses the Snowpark cloud data warehouse to list all its services in a data catalog to improve the user experience.
June 01, 2021 01 Jun'21
After sluggish revenues, Cloudera goes private in $5.3B deal

Big data vendor Cloudera is looking to expand its SaaS capabilities by exiting the public markets and acquiring startups Cazena and Datacoral to bring new self-service features.
May 27, 2021 27 May'21
Google Datastream advances change data capture in the cloud

At Google's Data Cloud Summit, a new service released in preview to enable users to capture data from other sources to bring into Google's cloud data and analytics services.
May 26, 2021 26 May'21
New Google tools aim to simplify data analytics lifecycle

Google Cloud unveiled a trio of new tools, aimed at enabling users to work through the entire analytics workflow, during its virtual Data Cloud Summit.

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The ultimate guide to big data for businesses

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How to build an all-purpose big data pipeline architecture

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Hadoop vs. Spark: Comparing the two big data frameworks

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How automated metadata management improves business insights

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Top trends in big data for 2021 and beyond

Big data is driving changes in how organizations process, store and analyze data. The benefits are spurring even more innovation. Here are four big trends. Continue Reading
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Data quality for big data: Why it's a must and how to improve it

As volumes of collected data increase exponentially, methods to improve and ensure big data quality are critical in making accurate, effective and trusted business decisions. Continue Reading
Enterprise augmented data management benefits and growth

Gartner predicts plenty of growth in the booming augmented data management market, which helps data professionals focus on insights over administrative tasks. Continue Reading
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