This article provides a practical, strategic framework for maximizing ROI from Databricks. It outlines why many organizations underperform with the platform and offers a 3-pillar approach—optimizing infrastructure, accelerating workflows, and aligning teams—to transform Databricks from a high-cost tool into a high-impact business asset.
As these organizations explore cloud options, a key consideration is how to integrate their existing VMware environments with cloud services without undergoing extensive re-platforming. Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) is designed to address this need by allowing users to run their VMware workloads natively on AWS.
Almost any piece of industrial equipment today produces its own rich and steady stream of data. Digital diagnostics embedded in devices help with on-site troubleshooting when dispatching a trained local technician. But what about extending…
The AWS Partner Network (APN) has endorsed ElevationData, the CloudGeometry company specializing in data engineering and data science pipelines, as a Designated Service Provider...
We are proud to announce that the AWS Partner Network (APN) has certified us as a Designated Service Provider for AWS Database Migration Services. These AWS credentials...
By now, the consensus view of Big Data is that bigger doesn’t translate into better. It’s a more subtle irony that in the face of bigger and faster data, data science is still vexingly difficult...
Modern software development runs at a faster pace than ever before. As cloud computing divides winners and losers in the data-driven marketplace, converging applications and their data with the infrastructure they run on makes more…
We’re excited to announce that CloudGeometry has been recognized by the AWS Partner Network (APN) as a Certified Advanced Consulting partner! Achieving Advanced status required that we meet strict requirements that demonstrate our proven AWS expertise, technical proficiency, and effectiveness…
We’re excited to add new new expert consultancy offerings focused on helping data-driven companies unleash the velocity and power of modern data-centric systems at scale. Our goal for this practice is to make life easier…
Agile methodologies are now recognized as a structured way to work through ambiguous and complex software problems with evolving solution requirements. Practices such as sprints, backlogs, timeboxing, scrum, can be applied in a variety of…
The recent news from Wall Street about the merger of two of the original “big data” companies, Cloudera and Hortonworks (now called “Cloudera”) made a lot of noise across the Big Tech Finance marketplace, certainly here in Silicon Valley. But…
The good news about modern virtualization technologies like KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) and containers (e.g., LXC) is that you get almost limitless options for spinup and teardown of clusters, machines, networks and so on. That’s also the bad…
Note: This is part two of a two-part series on Amazon EKS. ICYMI, here's a comprehensive intro overview get you up top speed on EKS: “Ten things to know about Kubernetes on AWS”.) By this…
Note: This is part one of a two-part series on Amazon EKS; to see a more in-depth review and recommendations, see Part II: “Figuring out if Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) is right for you”