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How To Manage Big Data Analytics In The Cloud: Best Practices

Big data with cloud computing is a powerful combination that can transform your organization, process, and analyze your big data faster, and improve your products and business with actionable insights. Bringing your big data cluster to the cloud presents huge opportunities, but there are some challenges that need to be overcome. Is your organization really ready for the complexity of managing big data analytics in the cloud?

The Future Trends of Big Data, Analytics and Cloud Adoption in 2021

As corporate big data leaders look to improve data quality, turn around some of their big data projects in 2021, and optimize and improve application and cluster performance to meet business objectives, big data and analytics remain essential resources for companies to survive in a highly competitive big data environment. As you help your organization plan for the future and prepare for where big data is going in 2021, join presenter, Pepperdata Field Engineer, Kirk Lewis for this webinar.

How To Fix Spark Performance Issues Without Thinking Too Hard

At Pepperdata we have been analyzing many thousands of Spark jobs on many different clusters, on-prem and cloud production clusters running Spark across a variety of industries and applications, and even workload types. In this presentation, Alex and I are going to cover a very brief intro to Spark, and we'll discuss some of the common issues we have seen and the symptoms of those issues and also how you can address and overcome some issues like that without having to think too hard.

Organizations Grapple with Skyrocketing Cloud Costs, Anodot Survey Finds

The pandemic upended business for many or at the very least cast a grim shade of uncertainty, so, as many took to working from home, they also were commissioned with cutting waste. Among the biggest sources of misspend in 2020 – cloud services. And remote work may have actually spurred the problem, as organizations migrate more applications to the cloud to support these workers.

FinOps Best Practices at Autodesk

See how Autodesk reined in Amazon Web Services (AWS) costs with a comprehensive, cross-functional FinOps program. Densify enables successful cloud financial management at Autodesk by providing each team—Finance, Engineering, and application owners—reliable cloud optimization recommendations and trustworthy justification, creating cross-silo collaboration that delivers reliable applications at the right cost.

What Is Cloud Automation? Here's Everything You Need To Know

Automation does not only eliminate the mundaneness of performing repetitive tasks, it can also help reduce errors and mistakes. Good cloud infrastructure encourages cloud automation. That should be one of the main motivators of implementing it. As ubiquitous as the idea of cloud computing has become in the last decade, there is still a lot of demystification to be done. People still don't fully understand its potential. Yes, it can save you money and time but how?

What Is Cloud Optimization? (And Why Is It Important?)

Whether you've recently migrated to the cloud, or you've been operating there for awhile now, you've likely realized how challenging it can be to understand exactly where your cloud spend goes and what drives your costs. Using a cloud service provider can offer many benefits, like the ability to easily scale up and down based on need, but unless you're using the right services and tools, your costs can quickly spiral out of control.

Anodot vs. AWS: Which Has the Most Accurate Cloud Cost Forecasts?

The move to cloud computing has been a no-brainer for many enterprise companies. But cloud computing is an expense that, unlike many other operating costs, is largely variable. Many companies — including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies — choose AWS to help them streamline fragmented processes, reduce costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.