Businesses of all sizes recognise there is valuable information hidden within their troves of data, yet AWS research identified 62% of ANZ organisations have a basic or beginner level of data maturity. AWS wants to help and today announced it has brought its free Data Lab program to this region. iTWire has already tested it out and can tell you what to expect.

Bryan Campbell, data and analytics platform manager, Mercury NZ presented today at the Databricks Data and AI tour about the gentailer’s journey from costly data to an agile, versatile, objective-meeting data lakehouse.

Microsoft announced today it is supporting Lifeline, Australia's leading suicide prevention service, to securely analyse and share curated, anonymised data with mental health researchers. The solution was implemented by Microsoft partner, Data Addiction.

Dr Jonathan Gray, the CEO and Chief Data Scientist at Catapult BI will present a free 30 minute webinar on Data Governance and its importance for organisations in regulated industries and the Public Sector, at 1pm AEDT on Thursday, November 19, 2020.

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iTWire talks to Pure Storage vice-president of strategy Matt Kixmoeller about the company's recently introduced Data Hub.

Forthcoming changes to EMC's Isilon Scale-out NAS Data Lake family include support for public cloud storage.

EMC's Federation Business Data Lake is a pre-integrated big data system that can be installed and running in just seven days for a 1PB configuration.

EMC and its spin-off company Pivotal have announced a new version of their data analytics product which incorporates EMC’s storage hardware.

The 'data lake' concept - storing as much as possible of an organisation's data in one system - seems to be gaining traction. The idea is that it provides economies of scale through consolidation thanks to better utilisation and simpler management, as well as allowing the data to be used for more purposes without duplication.