"Data Lake Management: Big Data and the Cloud"

By: Intersec Group

The advent of open‐source technologies fueled big data initiatives with the intent to materialize new business models.  The goal of big data projects often revolves around solving problems in addition to helping drive ROI and value across a business unit or entire organization. It’s often difficult to launch a big data project quickly due to competing business priorities; the myriad of technology choices available as well as, the sheer size, volume, and velocity of data. Key questions from this whitepaper: What are the common questions and challenges that the operators are facing when starting a Big Data project? What are the best practices to avoid being trapped in the ever‐lasting big data project that fails to generate any revenue? Should the big data project be carried out by the IT department or should it be led by a dedicated organization, under a new function like a Chief Data Officer, distinct from traditional IT?

By: Quali

An accessible self-service portal that offers a predefined catalog of demonstration can address many shortcomings and make life easier for both sales teams and prospective customers.  By leveraging the maturity, scalability, maintainability and ease of use capabilities o­ffered by CloudShell, sales and marketing teams can ensure a sustainable competitive advantage. This whitepaper on “Building Self Service Demo Clouds with CloudShell,” provides insights on how self-service demo clouds helps to deliver the products and services faster to market with better quality. Key takeaways from this whitepaper: Cloud-based self-service access: Delivering complex demo environments Demo and POC cost will make you non-competitive Demo Clouds give you a competitive advantage Cloud sandboxing enables eff­ective demo clouds