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5 tips for choosing a managed database service provider | Aiven Cloud Chats

Aiven's Senior Solution Architect David Esposito goes through five important tips on choosing the right DBaaS vendor for your situation. Having these in your back pocket when you're looking for your future service provider should make the process a bit easier. And ultimately help you make the right choice! TIMESTAMPS

How to Become Data Centric

According to Dr. Stephen Hawking and the conservation of quantum information theory, information can neither be created nor destroyed… unless you work in IT. OK, he didn’t really say the part about IT; I did. In the physical world, information is constantly generated, curated, and consumed—from emails to cat videos to this blog post. Not to mention error messages, system logs, and alert emails you never read.

Querying a petabyte of cloud storage in 10 minutes

Elastic's new frozen data tier decouples compute from storage and leverages low-cost object stores such as Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, or Amazon S3 to directly power searches. It provides unlimited scaling of storage while preserving the ability to efficiently query the data without any need to rehydrate it first, making it easier and cheaper to manage data at scale.

Perspectives from the federal public sector: Enable mission success with Elastic

After a year of accelerated change in the federal industry, the Federal Public Sector event focused on the progress you’ve made, the trends demanding your attention, and the Elastic capabilities that continue to guide federal agencies, offices, and departments towards a search-enabled future. With a theme of Accelerate the mission.

Five worthy reads: Is DataOps the next big value driver in the analytics ecosystem?

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this edition, we’ll learn about DataOps, an interesting methodology that can help organizations fast-track their data analytics operations.

Using Maths to Fight Financial Crime

Financial crime has become a red-hot topic over the last 12 months, as fraudsters have sought to exploit the monitoring gaps between people, process and technology across an ever-widening attack surface – driven by the growth in usage of remote (digital) channels. Even before its recent growth, the cost of fraud and financial crime was significant.

How Can Companies Integrate Ethical AI? | Splunk's Ram Sriharsha & Dr. Rumman Chowdhury

Organizations use AI to be more competitive, deliver better business outcomes and avoid falling behind. However, business leaders should know they pose their organizations’ serious risk if they do not comply with ethical standards. Leadership must enable teams to practice ethical business strategies, up-level talent strategy, and enable organizational resilience. Dr. Rumman Chowdhury and Ram Sriharsha, Head of Machine Learning at Splunk, discuss the challenges companies will face if they do not comply with ethical standards and how to solve for fairness and privacy.