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In this article, I will be focusing on the contribution that a multi-cloud strategy has towards these value drivers, and address a question that I regularly get from clients: Is there a quantifiable benefit to a multi-cloud deployment? That question is typically being asked when I explain the ability to leverage container technology that offers a consistent deployment environment across multiple clouds and form factors (public, private, or hybrid cloud).

Mastercard is one of the world’s top payment processing platforms, with more than 700 million cards in use worldwide. In the US, nearly 40% of American adults hold a Mastercard-branded card. And the company is going from strength to strength; despite a dip in valuation of more than a third when the pandemic hit, the company has doubled in value three times in the last nine years, recently reaching a market capitalization of more than $350B dollars.

In a press release delivered today, Unravel Data announced its appearance on CRN’s Big Data 100 list for 2021. Unravel’s entry appears in the Data Management and Integration category. Also featured in this category are other rising stars such as Confluent, Fivetran, Immuta, and Okera, all of whom spoke at new industry conference DataOps Unleashed, held in March.

Apache YuniKorn (Incubating) has just released 0.10.0 (release announcement). As part of this release, a new feature called Gang Scheduling has become available. By leveraging the Gang Scheduling feature, Spark jobs scheduling on Kubernetes becomes more efficient.

The world loves to talk about data, and how valuable it is. Yet, what that really refers to is insights – data by itself is meaningless, and, only from being able to extract insights that you can do something with, does raw information have value.