Access Over 181,000 USGS Historical Topographic Maps
ArcGIS
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
We recently updated our online USGS historical topographic map collection with over 1,745 new maps for a new total of over 181,000 maps.
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Practical First Steps In Data Governance For Long Term Success
Data Engineering Podcast
JUNE 2, 2024
Data governance is the binding force between these two parts of the organization. Nicola Askham found her way into data governance by accident, and stayed because of the benefit that she was able to provide by serving as a bridge between the technology and business. What are some of the pitfalls in data governance?
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How Snowflake and Merit Helped Provide Over 120,000 Students with Access to Education Funding
Snowflake
MAY 16, 2024
Snowflake joined forces with Merit to provide an identity verification platform and a set of program delivery services that help run large-scale government programs in areas such as licensing regulations, workforce development, emergency management, and educational grants and scholarships. That’s where Snowflake and Merit stepped in.
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Snowflake Horizon Advances Industry-Leading Governance with Simplified Internal Marketplaces and AI Innovations
Snowflake
JUNE 5, 2024
At the same time, organizations must ensure the right people have access to the right content, while also protecting sensitive and/or Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and fulfilling a growing list of regulatory requirements. Additional built-in UI’s and privacy enhancements make it even easier to understand and manage sensitive data.
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Zenlytic Is Building You A Better Coworker With AI Agents
Data Engineering Podcast
MAY 18, 2024
Summary The purpose of business intelligence systems is to allow anyone in the business to access and decode data to help them make informed decisions. Support Data Engineering Podcast Summary The purpose of business intelligence systems is to allow anyone in the business to access and decode data to help them make informed decisions.
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dbt multi-project collaboration
Christophe Blefari
OCTOBER 19, 2023
dbt Mesh is the dbt Cloud solution to manage cross-project references , a multi-project node explorer and all the governance. Private means the model is accessible only within the same group—a model can be only in one group. Hence dbt Mesh , which has been announced this week at Coalesce—dbt Labs annual conference.
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Built-In Governance for Your Databricks Workspace
databricks
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Databricks Unity Catalog simplifies data and AI governance by providing a unified solution for organizations to securely discover, access, monitor, and collaborate on.
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Using Trino And Iceberg As The Foundation Of Your Data Lakehouse
Data Engineering Podcast
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
What are the differences in terms of pipeline design/access and usage patterns when using a Trino/Iceberg lakehouse as compared to other popular warehouse/lakehouse structures? For someone who is interested in building a data lakehouse with Trino and Iceberg, how does that influence their selection of other platform elements?
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Did Automattic commit open source theft?
The Pragmatic Engineer
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Blocked from WordPress.com : even though WP Engine lawsuit is against Automattic and its CEO, WordPress.org bans anyone affiliated with WP Engine from accessing the site and updating plugins. This would make it irresponsible for enterprises and government organizations to rely on the WordPress.org plugin directory.
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Govern an Open Lakehouse with Snowflake Open Catalog
Snowflake
OCTOBER 18, 2024
An open standard for storage format and catalog API has helped, but there’s still a need for open standards for the catalog, including a consistent way to apply security access controls to data. To address these security and governance challenges, Snowflake worked with the community to form open standards with Apache Polaris™ (incubating).
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Troubleshooting Kafka In Production
Data Engineering Podcast
DECEMBER 24, 2023
Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place.
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AI Success – Powered by Data Governance and Quality
Precisely
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Robust data governance for AI ensures data privacy, compliance, and ethical AI use. But achieving AI mastery comes with its own unique hurdles – the most significant being ensuring the quality and governance of the data that fuels your AI systems. And within those data strategies, data governance is non-negotiable.
Data Sharing Across Business And Platform Boundaries
Data Engineering Podcast
FEBRUARY 11, 2024
What are the requirements around governance and auditability of data access that need to be addressed when sharing data? What are the typical boundaries along which data access requires special consideration for how the sharing is managed? How does that change as a function of the type of data? tabular, image, etc.)
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The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
The Pragmatic Engineer
MARCH 13, 2023
The FDIC is a government agency whose goal is to maintain stability and public confidence in the US financial system. The FDIC stated “all insured depositors will have full access to their insured deposits no later than Monday morning, March 13, 2023.” Several vendors were proactive, offering payment support.
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2024 Governance Trends for Data Leaders
phData: Data Engineering
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
In an effort to better understand where data governance is heading, we spoke with top executives from IT, healthcare, and finance to hear their thoughts on the biggest trends, key challenges, and what insights they would recommend. With that, let’s get into the governance trends for data leaders! Want to Save This Guide for Later?
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Best Practices for Responsible AI Innovation and Governance Frameworks
Snowflake
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
With the breakneck speed of AI advancement, new innovations inevitably outpace global governments’ abilities to regulate its use. Rather than struggle with a reactive approach tackling new technology case by case, governments worldwide are developing AI governance frameworks that proactively seek ways to address these challenges.
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Establish A Single Source Of Truth For Your Data Consumers With A Semantic Layer
Data Engineering Podcast
APRIL 7, 2024
Different roles and tasks in the business need their own ways to access and analyze the data in the organization. In order to enable this use case, while maintaining a single point of access, the semantic layer has evolved as a technological solution to the problem.
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Modern Customer Data Platform Principles
Data Engineering Podcast
JANUARY 21, 2024
What are the governance policy and enforcement challenges that are added with the expansion of access and responsibility? What are the governance policy and enforcement challenges that are added with the expansion of access and responsibility? How have the responsibilities shifted across different roles?
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Making Email Better With AI At Shortwave
Data Engineering Podcast
APRIL 21, 2024
Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place.
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Stitching Together Enterprise Analytics With Microsoft Fabric
Data Engineering Podcast
JUNE 23, 2024
Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place. Want to see Starburst in action?
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Improve Data Quality Through Engineering Rigor And Business Engagement With Synq
Data Engineering Podcast
JUNE 30, 2024
With the focus on sharing ownership beyond the boundaries on the data team there is a strong correlation with data governance principles. How do you see organizations incorporating Synq into their approach to data governance/compliance? How do you see organizations incorporating Synq into their approach to data governance/compliance?
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Securely Connect to LLMs and Other External Services from Snowpark
Snowflake
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
We are excited to announce the public preview of External Access, which enables customers to reach external endpoints from Snowpark seamlessly and securely. With this announcement, External Access is in public preview on Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions.
Power Holistic Customer Insights with Salesforce and Snowflake Data Sharing-Based Integration
Snowflake
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
In the coming months, Salesforce and Snowflake plan to launch BYOL Data Federation so Snowflake data can be accessed within Salesforce Data Cloud, completing the bidirectional data sharing capability, to close the loop and facilitate data activation and streamline value for joint customers.
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Being Data Driven At Stripe With Trino And Iceberg
Data Engineering Podcast
JUNE 16, 2024
Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place. Want to see Starburst in action?
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Tackling Real Time Streaming Data With SQL Using RisingWave
Data Engineering Podcast
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place.
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Addressing The Challenges Of Component Integration In Data Platform Architectures
Data Engineering Podcast
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
Summary Building a data platform that is enjoyable and accessible for all of its end users is a substantial challenge. Support Data Engineering Podcast Summary Building a data platform that is enjoyable and accessible for all of its end users is a substantial challenge. Go to [materialize.com]([link] today and get 2 weeks free!
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Open, Interoperable Storage with Iceberg Tables, Now Generally Available
Snowflake
JUNE 21, 2024
Snowflake is now making it even easier for customers to bring the platform’s usability, performance, governance and many workloads to more data with Iceberg tables (now generally available), unlocking full storage interoperability. Data is stored in open formats and interoperable across external compute engines.
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Announcing New Innovations for Snowflake Horizon
Snowflake
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Snowflake’s single, cross-cloud governance model has always been a powerful differentiator, enabling customers to manage their increasingly complex data ecosystems with simplicity and ease. As a result, Snowflake is enhancing its governance capabilities that thousands of customers already rely on through Snowflake Horizon.
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Ship Smarter Not Harder With Declarative And Collaborative Data Orchestration On Dagster+
Data Engineering Podcast
MARCH 24, 2024
Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place.
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FedRAMP In Process Designation, A Milestone in Cybersecurity Commitment
Cloudera
APRIL 2, 2024
It’s been said that the Federal Government is one of, if not the largest, producer of data in the United States, and this data is at the heart of mission delivery for agencies across the civilian to DoD spectrum. FedRAMP requires that we meet strict security standards to protect government data.
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Unlock the New Wave of Gen AI With Snowpark Container Services GPU-Powered Compute
Snowflake
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Accessing the necessary resources from cloud providers demands careful planning and up to month-long wait times due to the high demand for GPUs. Integrated governance: Snowpark Container Services runs within the same Snowflake Horizon governance framework as the data. What makes Snowpark Container Services unique?
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Data Migration Strategies For Large Scale Systems
Data Engineering Podcast
MAY 26, 2024
Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place. Want to see Starburst in action?
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Release Management For Data Platform Services And Logic
Data Engineering Podcast
MAY 12, 2024
Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place. Want to see Starburst in action?
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Pushing The Limits Of Scalability And User Experience For Data Processing WIth Jignesh Patel
Data Engineering Podcast
JANUARY 7, 2024
Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place.
Data Process 147
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X-Ray Vision For Your Flink Stream Processing With Datorios
Data Engineering Podcast
JUNE 9, 2024
Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place. Want to see Starburst in action?
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Build A Data Lake For Your Security Logs With Scanner
Data Engineering Podcast
JANUARY 28, 2024
Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place.
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Snowflake Cortex LLM Functions Moves to General Availability with New LLMs, Improved Retrieval and Enhanced AI Safety
Snowflake
MAY 7, 2024
Snowflake Cortex is a fully-managed service that enables access to industry-leading large language models (LLMs) is now generally available. You can use these LLMs in select regions directly via LLM Functions on Cortex so you can bring generative AI securely to your governed data. Available under Apache 2.0 Daily limits apply.
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Embedded Snowpark Container Services Set RelationalAI’s Snowflake Native App on Path for Success
Snowflake
JUNE 27, 2024
Historically, because of security and procurement reviews, it could take several months to get users in enterprise organizations access to the product,” Macintyre explains. “We’ve We’ve seen with Snowflake Native Apps and Snowpark Container Services, that can now happen in days and even hours, which is mind-blowing.”
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Top 5 Data + AI Predictions for Financial Services in 2024
Snowflake
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The foundation for success is a data platform that allows flexible, cost-effective ways to access gen AI — whether organizations want to use off-the-shelf commercial and open-source large language models (LLMs), or fine-tune their own LLMs for more complex applications. Rinesh Patel, Snowflake’s Global Head of Financial Services 2.
Modern Data Architecture: Data Mesh and Data Fabric 101
Precisely
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Data fabric is a unified approach to data management, creating a consistent way to manage, access, and share data across distributed environments. As data management grows increasingly complex, you need modern solutions that allow you to integrate and access your data seamlessly.
Build Your Second Brain One Piece At A Time
Data Engineering Podcast
APRIL 28, 2024
Trusted by the teams at Comcast and Doordash, Starburst delivers the adaptability and flexibility a lakehouse ecosystem promises, while providing a single point of access for your data and all your data governance allowing you to discover, transform, govern, and secure all in one place.
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Snowflake’s AWS re:Invent Highlights for Fast-Tracking ML, Gen AI and Application Innovations
Snowflake
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Bring gen AI to your governed enterprise data with Snowflake Cortex No matter your industry, department or role, you can leverage generative AI (gen AI) and large language models (LLMs) to increase efficiencies and uncover new solutions to business challenges.
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Unlock the Power of Your Marketing Data with Snowflake Connector for Google Analytics
Snowflake
JANUARY 29, 2024
This new connector offers immediate access to your Google Analytics data without the hassle, complexity and expense of manual integration via API endpoints and patched systems workarounds. There is no other infrastructure used in between, which greatly simplifies data governance, and allows for optimal security and minimal latency.
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Snowflake ML Now Supports Expanded MLOps Capabilities for Streamlined Management of Features and Models
Snowflake
JUNE 11, 2024
Governed ML Traceability: ML Lineage, in private preview, offers visibility into the usage of objects and artifacts across development and operations. With these new features in Snowflake ML, developers can leverage centralized, governed MLOps for faster management of features and models.
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