Open Future Blog by Syone

By Guest Authors: Johan Euphrosine and Ethan Mahintorabi @ Google

By Guest Authors: Bill Zhang, Peter Ableda, Shaun Ahmadian and Manish Maheshwari 

By Guest Authors: Shaun Ahmadian and Luiz Carrossoni Neto @ Cloudera

What is Apache Iceberg?

Apache Iceberg is a high-performance, open table format, born-in-the cloud that scales to petabytes independent of the underlying storage layer and the access engine layer.

By being a truly open table format, Apache Iceberg fits well within the vision of the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). In fact, we recently announced the integration with our cloud ecosystem bringing the benefits of Iceberg to enterprises as they make their journey to the public cloud, and as they adopt more converged architectures like the Lakehouse.

Let’s highlight some of those benefits, and why choosing CDP and Iceberg can future proof your next generation data architecture.  

By Guest Author: Jared Pane, @ Elastic

As higher education institutions operate in a changed world, IT leaders in education continue to work through issues that came to the forefront during the pandemic.

Educational technology plays a big role, especially when it comes to equitable access to education. But IT leaders are also focusing on the back end, and leveraging analytics to inform their decision making as they restore, evolve, or transform digital ecosystems for increasingly blended learning environments.

Three areas where analytics from the existing digital ecosystem enable a better student experience are: online learning, cost management, and cyber and information security. Whether IT leaders tackle one or all three, they have the ability to make a lasting impact using the Elastic search and analytics platform.

More than 10 years ago, Marc Andreessen penned his famous quote “software is eating the world” in his article “Why Software Is Eating the World”.