MN Tech Mag | Spring/Summer 2022

#3 Azure DevOps

#6 Google Cloud Platform

What it is: Azure DevOps is a public cloud-computing service that provides analytics, virtual computing, storage, and networking. A core competency of Azure DevOps is its ability to host and manage code centrally, allowing teams to collaborate effectively and securely. The tool’s collaboration also extends beyond code, allowing teams to create process templates for modelling work items around an Agile Framework or Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). Why it made the list: With its continuous integration and delivery, and a marketplace of integrations and plugins, Azure DevOps helps organizations take their solutions from development to delivery. With Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities, a wealth of security options, scalability, hybrid capabilities (private and public cloud availability), and an easy learning curve, Azure DevOps is one of the top tools.

What it is: Google Cloud Platform, or GCP, is a public cloud- based infrastructure used for hosting web-based applications that perform storage and data computing services for backend, mobile, and web solutions. Why it made the list: GCP allows users to work from anywhere with internet availability and contribute collaboratively on projects in real-time through the cloud while ensuring safe and secure access and movement of data. With features such as IaaS, PaaS, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Datastore, BigQuery (for big data sets), and Cloud Endpoints, GCP is a great choice for most organizations.

#4 Kafka

#7 Amazon Web Services

What it is: Kafka is a free-to-use open source software service that allows for data streaming pipelines and applications for storage and general processing (reading and analysis) of historical as well as real-time, or current data. Competitive organizations equipped with Kafka can publish and subscribe to streams of data, storing them chronologically, to then process in real-time. Why it made the list: Kafka is a powerful tool outfitted with scalability, speed, and durability as data is distributed across multiple servers. The operative terms here are speed and real-time data analysis – two things crucial to every successful tech-based enterprise.

What it is: Dominating over a third of the market in cloud computing, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a provider of scalable and cost-effective data solutions for data analytics, networking, developer tools, machine learning, integration, data storage, email, mobile development, and service and content delivery by Amazon. Why it made the list: AWS aims to help businesses enter the digital age or assist already tech-forward companies while guaranteeing secure, reliable data services. With its breadth of easy-to-use services, AWS is an obvious choice for this year’s top tech.

#5 Data Mesh

What it is: Unlike the rest of the list, Data Mesh is architecture rather than a tool or software. This approach embraces the philosophy of decentralization of data and prioritizes a domain-driven, self-serve design that eliminates the costs and delays of conventionally centralized data lake solutions. Why it made the list: Each organization is responsible for the quality, security, and transfer of their data, products, and services by providing connectivity to direct sets of data rather than large pools. Businesses that implement this strategy increase the speed and flexibility of data analytics available to them, making Data Mesh a desirable architecture.

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