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Google Cloud and Seagate: Transforming hard-disk drive maintenance with predictive ML

Data centers may be in the midst of a flash revolution, but managing hard disk drives (HDDs) is still paramount. According to IDC, stored data will increase 17.8% by 2024 with HDD as the main storage technology. At Google Cloud, we know first-hand how critical it is to manage HDDs in operations and preemptively identify potential failures.

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New Amazon FinSpace Simplifies Data Management and Analytics for Financial Services

Managing data is the core of the Financial Services Industry (FSI). I worked for private banking and fund management companies and helped analysts to collect, aggregate, and analyze hundreds of petabytes of data from internal data sources, such as portfolio management, order management, and accounting systems, but also from external data sources, such as real-time market feeds and historical equities pricing and alternative data systems.

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Enrich your data stream asynchronously using Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink

Streaming data into or out of a data system must be fast. One of the most expensive pieces of any streaming system is the I/O of the system: reading from the streaming layer using Apache Kafka or Amazon Kinesis, reading a file, writing to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, or communicating with an external system.

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How Goldman Sachs migrated from their on-premises Apache Kafka cluster to Amazon MSK

This is a guest post by Zachary Whitford, Associate, Richa Prajapati, Vice President and Aldo Piddiu, Vice President in the Global Investment Research engineering team at Goldman Sachs. The Global Investment Research (GIR) division at Goldman Sachs delivers client-focused research in the equity, fixed income, currency, and commodities markets.

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