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Today, AWS announced that Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports record sizes up to 10MiB – a tenfold increase from the previous limit. With this launch, you can now publish intermittent larger data payloads on your data streams while continuing to use existing Kinesis Data Streams APIs in your applications without additional effort. This launch is accompanied by a 2x increase in the maximum PutRecords request size from 5MiB to 10MiB, simplifying data pipelines and reducing operational overhead for IoT analytics, change data capture, and generative AI workloads. In this post, we explore Amazon Kinesis Data Streams large record support,…

What is Business Intelligence?As organizations collect more and more data, they need a process that turns raw data into meaningful strategies and operations. Business Intelligence (BI) refers to the set of infrastructure, tools, applications and best practices that organizations leverage to help them drive their strategic decision-making. While traditional BI has focused on collecting, integrating and analyzing historical data to support better decision‑making, modern BI increasingly incorporates advanced business analytics, including predictive insights, to help organizations drive growth.The term “business intelligence” can encompass a combination of data warehousing, business analytics, data visualization and reporting tools. However, the BI lifecycle begins…

Something that we like writing about on Smart Data Collective is how data analytics is reshaping the payment processes in e-commerce, offering new levels of insight, control and responsiveness. You will find in this blog post a detailed look at how analytics are applied in payments, you will see emerging trends, and you will understand key statistics that highlight the scale of change.You, as a stakeholder in e-commerce payments, are increasingly confronted with a business environment where the market for big‐data solutions is growing rapidly: a report by Markets.us states that the market for Big Data in e-commerce was valued…

Revel in the glory I imagine that many developers today don’t properly appreciate the glory that is REST/JSON because it is such an elegant and beautiful solution. In 2000, it was Roy Fielding who had a “light bulb over the head” moment and saw the connection between standard CRUD operations and the GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE verbs of the HTTP protocol. His lovely insight opened our eyes to the notion that the web was more than a platform for serving documents. The web was, in and of itself, a giant computing platform. Just like that, all of the marshalling and crazy…

AI’s next breakthrough won’t come from bigger models—it’ll come from better infrastructure. As enterprises move from experimentation to execution, they’re realizing that scalable, secure, and connected systems are what make AI real. The race is no longer just about data science; it’s about the infrastructure that lets intelligence run anywhere. At NVIDIA GTC in Washington, D.C., this week, Cisco shared how we’re advancing Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA—the enterprise foundation for AI that runs securely, observably, and at scale. The momentum spans four pillars: security, observability, core AI infrastructure, and ecosystem partnerships. We’ll focus here on core AI infrastructure—the…

In February of this year, Cisco announced an expanded partnership with NVIDIA to combine two of the most widely used networking portfolios: Cisco Silicon One and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet. This collaboration aimed to provide enterprises with unparalleled flexibility and options for their AI data center investments. I’m delighted to announce three significant milestones in our partnership: The Cisco Cloud Reference Architecture, featuring switches based on Cisco Silicon One with the add-on license for deeper integration with NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet technology. A Cisco NVIDIA Cloud Partner(NCP)-compliant Reference Architecture, built on the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet silicon–powered Cisco N9100 Series switches, with early…

He has heard the whispers, “he is getting older, who will replace him?” People asking him with a straight face, “when will you retire?” After close to 25 years at Amazon, where each year has been different and amazing, He feels as young as the day he decided to leave academia and join Amazon.The thing about getting older as a developer, is that you have seen a lot and encountered many of the problems younger developers are facing (even if they look a little different on first glance). If you’ve been around the block as many times as some of…

With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, VMware Cloud Service Providers (VCSPs) have an exciting opportunity to deliver next-generation private cloud solutions more efficiently and profitably, thanks to deeper integration and strategic licensing advantages of VMware vSAN. Historically, some providers opted out of deploying vSAN due to cost considerations or architectural preferences. However, as many VCSPs standardize on the VCF software stack, vSAN is getting a fresh look and for good reason (Read the blog, to know more about vSAN in VCF 9.0). The included 1 TiB of vSAN per core licensing for vSAN within VCF dramatically shifts…

Today, we’re introducing Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, a state-of-the-art multimodal embedding model for agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search applications, available in Amazon Bedrock. It is the first unified embedding model that supports text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single model to enable crossmodal retrieval with leading accuracy. Embedding models convert textual, visual, and audio inputs into numerical representations called embeddings. These embeddings capture the meaning of the input in a way that AI systems can compare, search, and analyze, powering use cases such as semantic search and RAG. Organizations are increasingly seeking solutions to unlock insights…

Google Cloud has added new post-quantum encryption options to its Key Management Service (Cloud KMS). The update is currently in preview and introduces support for post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) – a form of encryption built to resist attacks from cryptographically relevant quantum computers.Cloud KMS is a managed service that lets users create, use, rotate, and manage encryption keys for data and applications hosted on Google Cloud. It’s commonly used by organisations that rely on identity and access management (IAM) systems to protect sensitive data and meet compliance targets.The new feature is designed to address a threat known as “Harvest…