#KnowYourData: The Key to Business

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2018 AT&T Business Summit: Security “in” and “of” the Cloud

By G C Network | November 10, 2018

While public cloud is undoubtedly an outsized piece of the conversation, news headlines of the latest data breach can make this move a very frightening proposition. The question of how…

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My Brush with Royalty: Queen Latifah

By G C Network | November 9, 2018

Queen Latifah! Hip Hop Icon. Movie Star. Television Star. Fashion Model. Songwriter. Producer. Entrepreneurial Genius!? YES! Dana Elaine Owens, her given name, is co-owner of Flavor Unit Entertainment, a firm that includes…

What’s New in Puppet 5?

By G C Network | November 9, 2018

Puppet 5 is released and comes with several exciting enhancements and features that promise to make configuration management much more streamlined. This article will take a comprehensive look at these…

5 Reasons Why Ansible is the Best CM Tool Out There?

By G C Network | November 9, 2018

Amidst volatile markets, dynamic technology shifts, and ever-increasing customer demands, it is imperative for IT organizations to develop flexible, scalable and high-quality applications that exceed expectations and enhance productivity. A…

Machine learning APIs for Google Cloud Platform

By G C Network | November 9, 2018

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is considered to be one of the Big 3 cloud platforms among Microsoft Azure and AWS. GCP is widely used cloud solutions supporting AI capabilities to design and…

What Is The Most Important Part of Architecture?

By G C Network | November 9, 2018

I always find it interesting to hear what people view architecture as. A lot of people think it’s just about the design aspect, where you get to put pen to…

Cloud migration best practice Part 4: Executing the migration

By G C Network | September 16, 2018

This series has stepped through cloud migration best practices. After providing an overview, we discussed: Classifying business-critical data. Updating organizational IT governance policies. Application screening and cloud workload selection. How to…

Cloud Migration Best Practice Part 3: Application Portfolio Analysis

By G C Network | September 16, 2018

In part three of this series on cloud migration best practice, I will focus on migrating the application itself. If you haven’t had the opportunity to read our recommendations from part…

Why Use Immutable Storage?

By G C Network | September 11, 2018

Data has become a global currency, and its value has nowhere to go but up.  According to The Economist online, the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but…

CLOUD ACT: What Does That Mean for Your Cloud Storage

By G C Network | August 31, 2018

When Congress names a law after you, it’s getting serious.  That is where we are now with cloud computing.  The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act or CLOUD Act (H.R. 4943) is…

Last week’s Strata-Hadoop conference in New York, NY was showcase of how big data is redefining business. Every company, every demonstration and every conversation highlighted how data is driving the exciting new business models unveiled at last week’s event.

I also learned quite a bit about the Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP). TAP is an open source project that Intel developed to make it easier for developers and data scientists to deploy custom big data analytics solutions in the cloud as well as reduce development costs and time to market. A few examples of how businesses are using TAP and data analytics to blaze new trails include:

  • Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), the largest university hospital in Europe, worked together to build a cloud-based solution for predicting the expected number of patient visits and hospital admissions;
  • Levi Strauss & Co. explored the possibilities through a proof of concept that helped salespeople quickly find misplaced items in a store so they can ensure those items are on the shelves, in the right spots, and ready for customers,
  • The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) used advanced analytics to enhanced the visualization capabilities of the Open Modeling Framework (OMF), an electrical power grid modeling and simulation solution
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) leveraged data science, graph analytics, and machine learning to enable faster discovery of new drug therapies. 
  • Doctors at Penn Medicine‘s heart failure and transplant program used big data to improve heart health by identifying patients who require proactive treatment. 

For me, one of the most fascinating briefing was from NASDAQ which evaluated TAP’s capability to serve as the core of an analytics-as-a-service platform. The financial juggernaut was able to demonstrate this open source platform’s ability to ingest 7 million 300 byte messages per second within their rather strict latency requirements. TAP essentially proved its ability to be the data and data-analytics hub of a financial transaction eco-system!

TAP’s real value lies in its ability to give application developers immediate access to several application language platforms. The associated runtimes, combine with dynamically bindable services and expressive APIs, to enable greatly reduced development timeframes.  This capability also simplifies integration with data analytical capabilities developed by the team’s data scientists.

At the Intel booth I also learned that TAP was being incubated by INTEL as an open source tool that makes it easier for organizations to create big data applications. TAP pulls together all the different required software and tools. The platform approach is designed to broaden the field of users who can develop these business changing applications. Intel is also partnering with systems integrators like Accenture and Infosys. They are also working with second tier cloud service providers Rackspace and OVH.com.

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