The sheer scale and force of worldwide manufacturing operations make it a prime target for automation and digital transformation. Although the adoption of automation and digital transformation strategies has been slow within the manufacturing industry, the newest industrial revolution is changing the tide. Industry 4.0 is characterized by automation, machine learning, and IoT technologies combining…
Read MoreCloud Data Warehouses vs Cloud Data Lakes – Where are the Lines Drawn?
Background: When data lakes first came on the scene they were usually on-premises Hadoop clusters. Such systems could store any kind of data in its raw format at massive scale. With the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) the data was stored multiple times across the cluster so there was little to chance of data loss…
Read MoreIt’s All About the Tools
It has been many years since I was in grade school, but I still remember one of the most important lessons learned at that very early age. “You can’t complete the work if you don’t bring your tools!” There was one specific teacher that started the school year with that statement and I heard her…
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