Data News Roundup- March 19th

Happy Friday and welcome back to our weekly “Data News Roundup” series! Have you had the chance to check out our webinar, “How to Make Smarter Data-Driven Decisions at Scale”? In this webinar, you will hear first-hand experiences using data as a strategic asset to drive smarter decisions – like when to offer new product offerings, how to introduce new revenue streams, where to automate manual processes, and how to earn customer trust. Register now and reserve your spot here.

We are also excited to share that on April 8th, we will be joining the InterSystems team for a joint webinar, “Connect Data and Application Silos to Accelerate Business Insights At Scale”. In this webinar, Scott Gnau, Vice President, Data Platforms at InterSystems and Dave Mariani, Co-Founder & CTO at AtScale will discuss the latest progress in data management technology, working with transactional AND analytic data, and how the financial services industry is addressing challenges to speed insight and innovation.

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Now, let’s get into this week’s stories!

ENTERPRISE IT LEADERS ARE AGGRESSIVELY MOVING LEGACY BUSINESS SYSTEMS TO THE CLOUD

– MARCH 18TH

By Esther Shein

TechRepublic

“Some 77% of IT leaders said their primary motivation for migrating legacy systems to cloud infrastructure was either a desire to secure data, maintain data access or save money.” A new survey by Lemongrass takes a closer look at cloud migration for the enterprise.

VACCINE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE MAY HAVE TO HANDLE DIGITAL PASSPORTS AND MANAGE NEW RISKS– March 18th

By Larry Dignan

ZDNet

What challenges will we face as offices open their doors and the majority population is vaccinated? Larry Dignan shares the findings from a new Forrester report.

BIG DATA CAREER NOTES: MARCH 2021 EDITION– March 16th

By Mariana Iriarte

Datanami 

In this feature, Iriarte shares the latest career moves of 29 technology leaders, including Josh Epstein of AtScale. Epstein reflects on his career journey and how it led him to his current role as AtScale CMO, “I have been watching AtScale with interest for the past few years and am incredibly excited to be part of the team…I started my career as a business analyst and remain a data-driven marketer at heart. I know, first-hand, the value of democratizing data and the enormous potential of augmenting business intelligence with AI/ML augmented insights. AtScale is at the right time in history as the entire analytics world is re-platforming itself for the cloud.”

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