Don't Panic! It's Just Data

Business leaders are in the midst of the biggest digital transformation revolution that the enterprise has ever seen. As the pandemic continues to accelerate the adoption of digital products and services, corporate culture, operations, technologies, stakeholder relationships/partnerships, and customer management/experience continues to evolve. Data transformation has made the most significant impa...

Cloud storage and data democratization are two strategic technology trends that have revolutionised the enterprise. Whilst the first enables organisations to store data and run workloads off-site, the latter expedites decision making by making data accessible to an entire team. However, in line with the ever-evolving tech landscape, both cloud storage and data democratization must move and evolve...

Analytical data is the beating heart of enterprise. It's the critical information we collect to improve customer relations, make better business decisions, and find growth opportunities. But to get it business-ready requires careful consideration and preparation for the right analytics solution. Where There's Data, There's Growth and Profitability In this podcast, Susan Walsh, Founder and MD of Th...

Instant analytics and reporting culminate in the new open-source, column-oriented DBMS, ClickHouse. The system has grown to be one of the most popular database projects, with thousands of users generating analytical reports via real-time SQL queries since it publicly launched in 2016 following an 8 year internal testing period with Yandex. When faced with trillions of rows of data and the need to...

Application Programming Interface, or API, was initially built to tackle the historic IT issue of system integrations. The software enables two applications and their individual data siloes to communicate with ease, leaving companies to focus on matters that do not allow for automation. However, this isn't the only tech problem that API, when managed correctly, can be used to solve. Martin Buhr, C...

Data sharing plays a vital role in ensuring organisations can generate insights, manage risk, and understand their customers. It can, however, be a highly complex and labour-intensive endeavour, with differing regulations across jurisdictions around how financial organisations review, approve and track data sharing activities. In this podcast, Susan Walsh, Founder and MD of The Classification Guru...

Data powers the cogs of every business today and nearly every company wants to transform through the help of it. In a nutshell, data has become a true 'asset' to the modern enterprise, especially in respect of how data analysis can be used to inform and drive business decisions. How Data Analysis Can Inform Business Decisions Joining Scott Taylor, Principal Consultant at MetaMeta Consulting, to un...

Digital transformation has changed over the years, especially in light of COVID-19. No longer just a term used to describe 'out with the old technology and in with the new', it now refers to everything from digitising assets to implementing a master data management (MDM) system. Joining Scott Taylor, Principal Consultant at MetaMeta Consulting, to delve deeper into the matter are Kerry Young, Ente...

In this podcast, Scott Taylor, Principal Consultant at MetaMeta Consulting, is joined by Robert Hodges, CEO at Altinity, to discuss ClickHouse, the first open-source, SQL data warehouse that competes with the major DBMS players. Over the course of the conversation, they look at: The history and background of ClickHouse Benefits of open source from a data perspect...

This week's guest is making his third appearance in our 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Scott Taylor welcomes back  Paul Mackay , EMEA Cloud Lead from Cloudera, to lend his expertise on how CDP is driving business transformation with cloud-native data and analytics. Paul appeared in episode 1 and episode 7 to lay the foundations of what enterprise data cloud...

Episode 10 of our 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Scott Taylor speaks to Wim Stoop, Product Marketing Director at Cloudera, about the data centre of the future by running a private cloud. Wim previously appeared in episode 8 to discuss security and governance. This time, he explores the current landscape and challenges of public cloud and what the...

We are in the final stretch of our 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Scott Taylor speaks to Chris Darvill, RVP Solutions Engineering at Cloudera, about the business benefits of data visualisation. Chris begins by explaining how companies can bring data to life with data visualisation tools, before exploring what it means to have a 'com...

Episode 8 of our 12 part Cloudera series features two excellent guests. Join Scott Taylor hosting Ana Gillan, Senior Solutions Engineer, and Wim Stoop, Product Marketing Director at Cloudera, as they deconstruct, rationalize, and discuss solutions for this ongoing business challenge. Topics range from how to think of security and governance as a 'business en...

A returning guest comes back to provide more fantastic insight into our 12 part Cloudera series. Join Scott Taylor and Paul Mackay, EMEA Cloud Lead from Cloudera, as they discuss how data - and the devices on which it's generated - becomes ever more prolific and why businesses need a hybrid cloud strategy that can span a multitude of different environments and enable them to say yes...

This episode marks our halfway point through our 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Jeff Fletcher, Senior Director of Product Management at Cloudera, explains why we need to rethink how we operationalise ML within the enterprise. Jeff starts by talking about what technology types apply to ML and what people should keep in mind about the operational side when testing. Also, he...

Episode 5 of our 12 part Cloudera sees a returning guest joining us. In this podcast, Jan Kunigk, CTO EMEA, returns to discuss what is needed to set apart a modern data warehouse PaaS (platform as a service) in the cloud from the traditional warehouse solutions. Jan explains the benefit that container technology has in a data warehouse and how that impacts the end-users. He also describes how...

Episode 4 of our 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Simon Elliston Ball, Director Product Management, Streaming Analytics, and Cyber ML at Cloudera explain why real-time streaming has become so important. Simon starts by talking about the role real-time data streaming plays in encouraging digitally driven innovation. Also, he explains the types of data structur...

Episode 3 is here as part of our 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Jan Kunigk, CTO EMEA, shares his architectural knowledge of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments for data and analytics. Jan starts by talking about the considerations needed when making the choice between hybrid and multi-cloud. Also, he explains the different architecture and deployment styles for both o...

It's episode 2 of this fantastic 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Scott Taylor speaks to Abhas Ricky, Managing Director, Global Head – Strategy & Transformation at Cloudera. Abhas starts by talking about why people implement the cloud and how enterprises can have a better understanding of the costs involved. Secondly, he explains how organisations sh...

Welcome to season 5! This new and exciting series from Cloudera will take us on a journey across all things cloud and data over the next 12 weeks. In this podcast, Scott Taylor speaks to Paul Mackay, EMEA Cloud Lead at Cloudera. Firstly, Paul outlines what an enterprise data cloud is and how to assess the need for a cloud initiative effectively. Next, he details how o...

Hybrid working has become a common talking point of many organisations in the last year as the increase of remote working has transformed several industries. As one might expect, a change in our work culture drastically changes the demands of our workers, meaning that more skilled professionals are required to handle independent working. The problem is that in its current state, the UK is und...

While organisations are gradually becoming more data-driven, there are still organisations that rely solely on instinct. According to Talend's 2021 Data Health Survey, a whopping 36% of executives are still making gut based decisions, a method which has proved time and time again to be both inefficient and unpredictable. One of the contributing factors to gut based decision making is a lack of tru...

While it has taken the lead position in infrastructure management, managing data on Kubernetes is a complex subject for many in the industry. Matching users expectations for container-orchestration systems against the needs they have for their databases have unveiled a multitude of unexpected issues. In recent years, storing data within Kubernetes has become more and more common. However, use...

As businesses endeavour to effectively action their data, business intelligence (BI) software and analytics operating systems have become all the more important and cherished. Not only do BI software fulfil their purpose of helping companies attain useful business insights, but they can also support flexibility and strengthen governance. Joining Ronald van Loon and EM360 to lend his BI expertise i...

When an organisation talks about data integration, there are a lot of hurdles to overcome. To achieve results they need to make sure their data is of high quality, organised and formatted. However, this is easier said than done as data engineers are trying to extract data from an ever-changing source. With cloud-based applications and siloed data, it raises a lot of questions as to how to achieve...