Amazon EMR Migration Guide

June 12, 2019

Businesses worldwide are discovering the power of new big data processing and analytics frameworks like Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, but they are also discovering some of the challenges of operating these technologies in on-premises data lake environments. Common problems include a lack of agility, excessive costs, and administrative headaches, as IT organizations wrestle with the effort of provisioning resources, handling uneven workloads at large scale, and keeping up with the pace of rapidly changing, community driven, open-source software innovation. Many big data initiatives suffer from the delay and burden of evaluating, selecting, purchasing, receiving, deploying, integrating, provisioning, patching, maintaining, upgrading, and supporting the underlying hardware and software infrastructure.

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Telos Corporation

Telos Corporation empowers and protects the world’s most security-conscious organizations with solutions and services for continuous security assurance of individuals, systems and information. Telos’ offerings include cybersecurity solutions and services for IT risk management and information security; secure mobility to protect globally connected organizations; and identity management to establish trust in personnel and continuously monitor for insider threats. We serve military, intelligence and civilian agencies of the federal government, allied nations and commercial organizations around the world.

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SAP Datashpere

whitePaper | March 29, 2023

On the 8th of March 2023 SAP announced the evolution of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) into SAP Datasphere during its ‘Data Unleashed’-digital event. Although this whitepaper has been updated to reflect all the changes and new developments, some of the images may still carry SAP Datasphere’s old name (Data Warehouse Cloud), in cases where no similar visualizations with the new namesake were available. If you have read this whitepaper before, you might just be interested in the topics that SAP highlighted in the days preceding and during the March event. In the section below you will find the most important takeaways in a nutshell, but we encourage you to read on if you want to know more!

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Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform

whitePaper | September 23, 2022

The Cisco HyperFlex™ HX Data Platform revolutionizes data storage for hyperconverged infrastructure deployments and makes Cisco HyperFlex Systems ready for your enterprise applications—whether they run in virtualized environments such as Microsoft Windows 2016 Hyper-V or VMware vSphere, in containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, or in your private or public cloud. Learn about the platform’s architecture and software-defined storage approach and how you can use it to eliminate the storage silos that complicate your data center.

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Prescriptive Security for Financial Services

whitePaper | November 15, 2019

The potential of artificial intelligence to transform business performance is only now starting to be more widely understood in Financial Services. This is nowhere clearer than in the security domain, where the fusion of big data, advanced analytics and machine learning holds out the promise of startling improvements in cyber defenses through the introduction of Prescriptive Security.

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Artificial Intelligence and National Security

whitePaper | November 26, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing field of technology with potentially significant implications for national security. As such, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and other nations are developing AI applications for a range of military functions. AI research is underway in the fields of intelligence collection and analysis, logistics, cyber operations, information operations, command and control, and in a variety of semiautonomous and autonomous vehicles. Already, AI has been incorporated into military operations in Iraq and Syria. Congressional action has the potential to shape the technology’s development further, with budgetary and legislative decisions influencing the growth of military applications as well as the pace of their adoption.

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A Review of BioPharma Sponsor Data Sharing Policies and Protection Methodologies

whitePaper | September 12, 2022

This whitepaper examines clinical trial data contribution policies and the data protection methodologies applied to protect patient privacy. Information published by 29 biopharma sponsors was collected across three data-sharing platforms, collated by sponsor size. Results showed that large sponsor contribution policies can provide helpful benchmarks for medium and smaller sponsors.

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Ventana Research Data Platforms Value Index 2023

whitePaper | January 18, 2023

Ventana Research performed this research and analysis independently. Our goals were to determine the Value Index for Data Platforms and to evaluate vendors and products in accordance with the Ventana Research methodology and blueprint. We charged no fees for this research and invited to participate all vendors that are delivering relevant data platform products and services. This report includes products generally available as of September 30, 2022.

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Telos Corporation

Telos Corporation empowers and protects the world’s most security-conscious organizations with solutions and services for continuous security assurance of individuals, systems and information. Telos’ offerings include cybersecurity solutions and services for IT risk management and information security; secure mobility to protect globally connected organizations; and identity management to establish trust in personnel and continuously monitor for insider threats. We serve military, intelligence and civilian agencies of the federal government, allied nations and commercial organizations around the world.

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