Big Data

"If you’re selling data to the highest bidder, the people who buy it will be those who can make the most money, not who will do the most good for the NHS..."

"Each NHS organisation will be the data controller for their ‘federated’ platform instance. The use of the data will always remain under the full control and protection of the NHS

“We have staggering amounts of data. And we have the same problem as everyone else. It's all siloed: we need it in one place…”

Improved Apache Iceberg integrations (managed and unmanaged); support for containerised applications as a managed service inside Snowflake (hello, Kubernetes) and more...

Snowflake wants to be a natural home for your applications as well as data. But from unstructured data to Python integrations, challenges remain.

"Progress in developing open data enablers (such as data infrastructure, data culture and capabilities, collaboration) has been limited across the water sector" warns the regulator.

Microsoft has released a unified data platform called Microsoft Fabric: the next step in a journey that started in 2022 with the release of its “Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform”, and an offering that Redmond says will let users get the “maximum value out of a single copy of data without