How Big Data Accelerators Enable Faster, Cost-Effective Analytics

CPU speed is no longer growing fast enough to keep up with demanding workloads, highly complex computing, and astronomical data growth, but specialized processors can fill the gap. Today's leading companies need to be data-driven and, more important, able to act on data insights with speed. This takes many forms, from personalizing customer experiences at the point of interaction to processing billions of data points to detect fraudulent activity to pivoting strategies as new data indicates changing environments. There's been no shortage of innovation among data applications over the past decade, helping organizations yield value from growing data volumes. Modern data platforms -- data lakes, data warehouses, data lake houses -- have largely risen to the challenge.