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With $17M in funding, Immerok launches cloud service for real-time streaming data

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In 2011, the Apache Software Foundation released Flink, a high-throughput, low-latency engine for streaming various data types. ” Temme acknowledges that there are other cloud services for Apache Flink, like Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Kinesis Data Analytics and Aiven’s fully managed Apache Flink service.

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A Timeline of Big Data Analytics

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In fact, it’s sometimes difficult to remember a time when businesses weren’t intensely focused on big data analytics. Consider the following to be a brief timeline of the big data analytics phenomenon. The mid-1950s were a time where data was beginning to be used for analytics purposes. Rick Delgado.

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When natural disasters strike Japan, ?ita University’s EDiSON is ready to act

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The data is gathered from paper records and advanced technology such as drones, the Internet of Things (IoT), and AI, live and static. Then there’s the southern island of Kyushu, the tail-end of Japan, which is particularly prone to increasingly frequent and more intense disasters such as heavy-rain events, typhoons, and earthquakes.

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

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To wit, one common theme that came from our recent profiles of Expensify and NS1 is the centrality of file sharing (or, illegal file sharing if you are on that side of the fence) and internet infrastructure in the origin stories of the two companies. 1 napkin and 22 lines of code, or how NS1 rewrote the rules of internet infrastructure.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

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But in this next cloud optimization phase, the airliner will focus on enhancing the security and performance of these workloads on the cloud, says Nair, who was hired by Cathay in 2011 as an application service manager, working his way up to his current position 10 years later. It will replace the standard MPLS network, he adds.

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Muck Rack, the journalist database, raises $180M in its first outside funding

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Today, Muck Rack is making another kind of connection, with investors: it’s raised $180 million in what it’s describing as its first outside funding, having been bootstrapped since being founded back in 2009.

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Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

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It’s also the lifeline that Automattic needs this decade to rebuild the internet in an open direction. The strategy here is simple: Continue opening up larger swaths of the internet to open-source innovation outside of the walled-garden platforms developed by Amazon and Facebook. billion with a share buyback a few months ago.

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