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What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

CIO Business Intelligence

What is a data engineer? Data engineers design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale. They create data pipelines that convert raw data into formats usable by data scientists, data-centric applications, and other data consumers.

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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

CIO Business Intelligence

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region.

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Microsoft doubles down on cloud data with new products, makes new appeal to Amazon’s rivals

GeekWire

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces the company’s new cloud data products. Microsoft is rolling out new cloud technologies for wrangling, protecting and analyzing large amounts of corporate data, escalating its competition with Google, Snowflake and Amazon in the $25 billion global market for data analytics and business intelligence.

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Former AWS engineers raise $3M to take on tech giants with ‘world’s fastest spreadsheet’

GeekWire

Founded in 2021 by former engineers at Amazon Web Services, the company is targeting a wide range of customers that use Row Zero for business intelligence, finance, operations, marketing, and more. “They use us to give their business access to the data warehouse in an interface everyone knows how to use.”

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Hortonworks HDP 2.5: Improved Security and Data Governance

CTOvision

At Hadoop Summit in San Jose on Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Hortonworks announced a new release of its Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop distribution, version 2.5, as well as an expansion of its Partnerworks program and a new partnership with AtScale , provider of a self-service Business Intelligence (BI) platform for Hadoop.

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Snowflake launches Retail Data Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

After launching the Healthcare and Life Sciences Data Cloud Platform just a week ago, Snowflake has announced a Retail Data Cloud aimed at helping retail and consumer goods companies make the most of their data. The Retail Data Cloud will also include prebuilt data applications from various technology and consulting partners.

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Snowflake launches healthcare SaaS, data marketplace and consulting services

CIO Business Intelligence

Snowflake has launched a cloud-based, data-sharing platform for the healthcare industry that integrates the company’s core data warehousing, analytics and business intelligence offerings with a data marketplace and on-demand consulting services. Healthcare platform offers data marketplace.