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Teradata Launches Cloud-Native Data Lake

August 31, 2022
Are cloud databases the best thing since sliced bread?  Many people think so, although I’d guess most are too young to remember actual unsliced bread.  For the record, so am I, although I do recall the bread slicing machine in my uncle’s bakery, which made a jiggling motion while set of parallel blades descended through the loaf.  Very cool, but I digress.  The news here is that Teradata has launched a new cloud-native database to compete with the likes of Snowflake and Databricks.
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Most Corporate Data Remains Centralized and Non-Cloud: Forrester Report

August 31, 2022
The analysts at Forrester Consulting might have liked the bread-slicing machine, but they’re not impressed with most companies’ cloud data migrations.  This study for Capital One finds that nearly three-quarters of companies have yet to move the most of their data to the cloud.  The most common obstacle is unpredictable costs due to usage-based cloud pricing models (82%), followed closely by data quality (80%), cataloging (78%), understanding data (76%), and observability (74%).  Old habits die hard: more than half (56%) say their data management is centralized, 19% say it’s decentralized,... Read More >
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Cost, Self-Service Drive Unstructured Data to Cloud: Komprise Survey

August 31, 2022
Komprise takes a sunnier view of cloud migration, reporting that on-premises-only environments fell from 20% to 12% since last year, although 50% still use a mix of cloud and non-cloud.  Two-thirds of the companies spend more than 30% of their IT budget on data storage and protection, so it’s not surprising that cutting costs is the main reason for cloud migration.  Better news is that self-service data access and greater agility are the next-most-common reasons.  This matters to marketers because user data is the most common type of unstructured data.
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Cartoon Videos Help Social Media Users Flag Misinformation: Google Research

August 29, 2022
You may have heard that podcasts occasionally include information that is not entirely accurate.  Shocking but true!  Google-backed research has found the “prebunking” with cartoon videos can help users recognize common misinformation techniques such as ad hominem attacks and false dichotomies.  The researchers seem pleased to find a 5% improvement in ability recognize such techniques within 24 hours of viewing the education videos.  Raise your hand if you think that’s enough to matter.
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