July 6, 2025

Category: Big Data

Leveraging AI in Your Digital Marketing Strategy
Big Data

Leveraging AI in Your Digital Marketing Strategy

There’s no doubt about it. Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how brands engage with their audiences, analyse data, and optimise marketing strategies. But how exactly can AI enhance your digital marketing game, and why should you trust Primal to guide the way? Let’s find out! AI in Digital Marketing AI is fast becoming a vital […]

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Zero-copy, Coordination-free approach to OpenSearch Snapshots
Big Data

Zero-copy, Coordination-free approach to OpenSearch Snapshots

Amazon OpenSearch Service provides automated hourly snapshots as a critical backup and recovery mechanism for customer data. These snapshots serve as point-in-time backups that you can use to restore your OpenSearch domains to a previous state, helping to ensure data durability and business continuity. While this functionality is essential, it’s equally important that the snapshot […]

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Saudi Arabia Unveils AI Deals with NVIDIA, AMD, Cisco, AWS
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Saudi Arabia Unveils AI Deals with NVIDIA, AMD, Cisco, AWS

Saudi Arabia announced AI development deals with four leading U.S. technology firms, chip companies NVIDIA and AMD, networking company Cisco and cloud platform Amazon Web Services. The partnerships were formed through the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund’s AI subsidiary, HUMAIN. With Nvidia, HUMAIN will build a projected capacity of up to 500 megawatts of AI infrastructuure […]

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The Key to Trust and Business Success
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The Key to Trust and Business Success

Better decision-making, innovation, and compliance all hinge on one common factor: trusted data. And today, we’re working with more data than ever. But here’s a fundamental challenge that many organizations face – and one I’ve encountered in countless conversations with customers: they don’t fully understand what data they have, let alone whether they can trust […]

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Neo4j Promises ‘No More ETL’ with Aura Graph Analytics
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Neo4j Promises ‘No More ETL’ with Aura Graph Analytics

(Titima Ongkantong/Shutterstock) Neo4j this week launched Aura Graph Analytics, a new offering designed to lower the barrier to using powerful graph algorithms. Neo4j says Aura Graph Analytics is a serverless service that brings 65 graph algorithms to bear on data wherever it resides, including relational databases, all the major clouds, as well as Databricks and […]

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Implementing a Dimensional Data Warehouse with Databricks SQL: Part 2
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Implementing a Dimensional Data Warehouse with Databricks SQL: Part 2

As organizations consolidate analytics workloads to Databricks, they often need to adapt traditional data warehouse techniques. This series explores how to implement dimensional modeling—specifically, star schemas—on Databricks. The first blog focused on schema design. This blog walks through ETL pipelines for dimension tables, including Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD) Type-1 and Type-2 patterns. The last blog […]

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Modern Data Engineering Services in 2025: Key Trends Fueling Enterprise-Wide Digital Transformation
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Modern Data Engineering Services in 2025: Key Trends Fueling Enterprise-Wide Digital Transformation

Introduction: The Data-Driven Imperative In 2025, the digital economy is operating at an unprecedented speed and complexity, and data has become its most valuable currency. Organizations are under pressure to extract actionable insights from massive, rapidly growing data volumes. The success of digital transformation strategies now hinges on the ability to engineer data flows that […]

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Configure cross-account access of Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse multi-catalog tables using AWS Glue 5.0 Spark
Big Data

Configure cross-account access of Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse multi-catalog tables using AWS Glue 5.0 Spark

An IAM role, Glue-execution-role, in the consumer account, with the following policies: AWS managed policies AWSGlueServiceRole and AmazonRedshiftDataFullAccess. Create a new in-line policy with the following permissions and attach it: { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Sid”: “LFandRSserverlessAccess”, “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: [ “lakeformation:GetDataAccess”, “redshift-serverless:GetCredentials” ], “Resource”: “*” }, { “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: “iam:PassRole”, “Resource”: “*”, […]

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